Coming soon

  Stacked up and ready to leave Gulu…these bags will be available online soon!

Happy Mother’s Day from our family to yours!

Favorite Photo Friday

  Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we have some amazing mothers here at Mend! Meet one of our newest seamstresses Margret and her beautiful daughter, Lanyero Gloria.

Flying high: Mend visits a ropes course

Mend | Recreation Center from Mend on Vimeo. Recently, the ladies at Mend stepped out of their comfort zone and into a series of zip lines, climbing walls and critical thinking games. As a teambuilding exercise, they participated in various ropes course activities facilitated by The Recreation Project, an organization that uses the fun experience [...]

Seamstress of the Month: Lamwaka Milka

Sitting at her sewing machine, Lamwaka Milka sings along to the radio playing local tunes, engaging in lighthearted conversation with the other seamstresses and bursting into laughter when she finds the song lyrics funny. Early in the morning when the staff at Mend arrive to open the office, it’s not uncommon for them to find [...]

Land matters

After enduring the stigma of returning to their communities as former LRA abductees, the Mend ladies have been working to rebuild their lives and find a sense of home. So far two have chosen to buy their own plots of land, inspiring the rest to make plans for one day owning their own property and [...]

Growing Mend

Step 3: Buying New Equipment Shopping for new sewing machines should be easy, right? Well. It can be, but not always. Especially when shopping in a developing country like Uganda. Last year, when five new seamstresses joined the Mend family we sourced their brand new genuine (Juki brand) sewing machines in Kampala…or so we thought! [...]

Messages to your Seamstresses

Mend is all about seaming a personal connection between a product, its maker and consumers to form beautiful relationships between people on opposite sides of the world. Each bag carries the name and story of the woman who made it. By purchasing a bag, you have a powerful opportunity to change a life. By sending [...]