Hope Ofiriha empowers women and children living in rural communities to overcome social injustice, disease, illiteracy, and poverty. Our small-scale interventions enhance their social and economic well being and help them reach their potential.
Twelve widows founded Hope Ofiriha in 1996 to provide agricultural workshops to other widows living near Onura, a remote settlement in war-ravaged Magwi County in South Sudan. A half century of near constant civil war had made South Sudan one of the poorest and most neglected places on Earth.
In 2006, a year after Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed, we expanded our mission further to helping women and children both girls and boys throughout Magwi County. We also started assisting Sudanese refugee women and children stranded in slums in the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda.