Support Uganda Mothers’ Outreach
Since December 2024, Alliance for PTSD Recovery has partnered with MeaningfulWorld Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention and the AWAGO. African Women’s and Girls’ Organization (TM Movement), in Uganda to bring meals and TM instruction to 800 poor and traumatized mothers in the Namuwango slums of Kampala, Uganda.
The mothers meditate together twice a day in groups of about 100, sheltered in tents we provide along with meals and seating. The tents create a sanctuary of peace in their turbulent lives.
Looking to future expansion, we are searching for additional space to teach large groups and broaden the scope to include the advanced TM techniques, called the TM-Sidhi program.
Findings gleaned through 50 research projects and 28 studies have shown that even small groups practicing TM and TM-Sidhi together twice a day can relieve environmental stress across a population, reducing potential violence, crime, and eventual PTSD. For the nation of Uganda, 800 TM-Sidhi practitioners would be sufficient to reduce stress and negativity in Uganda.
Night Kiconco is currently teaching the Ugandan groups. She has taught TM to 8,600 women since 2013.
I have been teaching Transcendental Meditation in Uganda for the past thirteen years. I teach women with traumatic stress how to get rid of it. I am teaching in the Namuwango slum project because I want these traumatized women to enjoy a happy life. Before learning TM, they were sad, unhappy and felt hopeless. But with Transcendental Meditation everything changes and they have beautiful experiences.
For example, one woman explained that before learning TM, she did not love her children or take care of them. Now, after learning Transcendental Meditation she loves them and takes care of them and even wonders why she was not doing this before.
Another woman says she hated herself, she did not love herself at all. She was drinking alcohol and just eating and sleeping as she waited for the end of her life to come. After learning TM, she has made plans for her future.
As a TM teacher, I am so happy when I hear such experiences. I continue dedicating my life to teach Transcendental Meditation to all of the women in Uganda and for the whole world.
Jacob Bole, M.B.A. in NGO Management, and B.A. in Education, vice-principal of a school in Kampala, and manager of this project, continues to bring traumatized women together in Namuwango to learn TM and receive some meals. We are teaching around 100 mothers each month with his organizing power.
I have helped over 500 mothers learn this great technique, Transcendental Meditation. They are very regular in their meditation. Many of these people in the slums are from Democratic Republic of Congo, coming from Burundi, South Sudan, from war-torn areas. They come to Kampala because Uganda has an open-door policy for refugees. They come with a lot of stress and many of them are victims of domestic violence, battered by their husbands. Now they are getting relief and they say that now they are able to have inner peace and they are able to sleep at night.
I have personally taken the TM-Sidhi course and that has given me advantage. I am now able to operate from a place of effortlessness.
We are working to bring coherence for the region and the neighboring nations. Transcendental Meditation has impacted especially the lives of the young mothers. Now the mothers have hope.
Three of the 800 mothers who have learned TM share their transformations.
As a single mother of 2 children I had a lot of challenges including being unemployed and displaced. I was so short tempered that I could not even listen to my own children when they asked for anything. Because of anxiety, I developed heart disease and high blood pressure. After learning Transcendental Meditation, my children realized I am a sweet mother, very understanding. I am much healthier since my blood pressure stabilized. Now, I relate so well with other people in the community. I am glad to be part of this wonderful program.
Margreat Namusana, aged 22, slums of Namuwango, Kampala.
I was so stressed due to an abusive relationship with my partner that I almost had a miscarriage and doctors advised me to find ways to avoid stress and worries and get enough rest. I could not figure out how to handle the situation. A friend invited me to attend a lecture on Transcendental Meditation (TM), but in the back of my mind I thought I was wasting my time. After learning TM, life became better. I forgave my partner for all that he took me through. I feel peaceful and calm.
Zaituni Namukasa, aged 19, slums of Namuwango, Kampala
“For so long, since the father of my four children abandoned us and left me to take care of them, I didn’t have any work to take on the responsibilities. Moreover we lived in a rented place with no relative to support me. I have struggled all the time. I was so worried and stressed seeing my children not attending school, that I even developed high blood pressure, migraines and bitter relationships with everyone around me.
After learning TM, I feel so relieved, so relaxed. I no longer have headaches and I am more loving, especially with my children.”
S.N. age 34, mother of 4 children, slums of Namuwango, #Kampala
You can see how practicing TM has brought life-transforming hope and peace to these women’s lives. Teaching 100 mothers per month costs $3000 – just $30 per person for a tent, seating, and meals.
Sustained donations of $3000 per month will fund this promising program into the future. We are now halfway to that goal. Your monthly “auto-pay” contribution will help us reach the goal and ensure a stable base for this very scalable program.
Please give generously to help those in such great need.
Please, make your monthly contribution an “auto-pay” to ensure we meet long-term goals in Uganda.
Under “frequency” you may choose “monthly” to support the group of 100 mothers a month.
Thank you for supporting these women to live more peaceful and productive lives.
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