Over 4000 Ugandan sex workers have benefited from a grassroots initiative helping them save money for retirement after their relatively short-lived careers. The sex workers who came up with the idea of a savings club received organizational help from the Social Innovations in Health Initiative of the School of Public Health at Uganda’s leading university. As well as saving, the women can also borrow funds to develop a side business or pay school fees to prepare for a new profession. On the islands in Lake Victoria, another Ugandan organization is helping sex workers re-train as cosmetologists. Those enrolled in the savings clubs can also obtain health insurance through local community schemes.
Ugandan Sex Workers Organize to Save Retirement
