Rooted Wisdom Africa, formerly Into Your Hands Africa, works in rural Uganda, where community members live on less than 49 cents per day. The organization strives to interrupt this cycle of poverty by working with local leaders to implement education and business development programs (with a primary focus on agriculture). While many organizations depend on an influx of foreign workers and investment, Rooted Wisdom knows that communities want to create value and improve their circumstances – they help them start that journey.

Since its inception, Rooted Wisdom has worked with local partners to send students to school, nurture local leaders, provide skills-based training, and facilitate sustainable enterprise projects as requested by the communities we serve. Their commitment is to create and sustain positive economic change by galvanizing the resources, and support communities need to succeed and cultivating a sense of ownership over both programs and their futures. Where they work, each region is considered its own ecosystem in which resources are shared, community participation is encouraged, exit strategies are developed, and impact is illustrated on a larger scale, allowing communities, with a jumpstart from their support, to take a systems approach to poverty alleviation and ultimately bring about corresponding positive changes in education and economic self-sufficiency.