Welcome to our gallery...
Supporting women, youth, the elderly & their families through handcraft training, design, production and marketing. Get to learn more about our story here…
Tooro Gallery Hand made for you
OUR STORY
Tooro Gallery was founded by Anne Kabahuma Kalinzi in 2014 after realising that many young women she had gone to school with had no source of income to provide scholastic materials and other home requirements for their children. The organization now has 700 members who have directly been trained, and involved in various workshops such as leadership, skill set development, weaving techniques, environment awareness, life skills and entrepreneurship skills
Our Services
We can run a craft skill training course for you. We look forward to working with organizations that wish to hos and fund a training for a community or individual.
Our Products
Take a look at the some of the work we have done for our clients…
Decorations
Flat Baskets
Tall Baskets
Basket World Point
Our Projects
Basket world Point is a marketing arm of Tooro Gallery. It showcases the beautiful handwoven, decorative and storages baskets made by the Women, Youth and Elderly of Tooro Gallery. These baskets are handwoven with beautiful colours and unique patterns made especially for you.
Supporting Women & Youth
Tooro Gallery aims at empowering and supporting Women (old & young), Youth and the elderly through income generation schemes like Handcraft making, production and marketing their products to more valuable markets so as to improve on their living standards.
The organization has 700 members who have directly been trained, and involved in various workshops such as leadership, skill set development, weaving techniques, environment awareness, life skills and entrepreneurship skills
In the news....
Anne Kabahuma Kalinzi Founded Tooro Gallery To Empower The Women In Her Community
In 2008, on a visit to her home town of Fort Portal, Anne encountered a number of children playing along the streets on several occasions. The fact that they were not in school really bothered her. A nurturer at heart, she knew she wanted to do something about it…….
Anne Kabahuma Kalinzi: Pushing for local handicrafts, readying for global business
Mrs. Kalinzi’s community organization is part of a new initiative that supports the production of high quality, locally produced Uganda crafts and that is also working to ensure they are available to tourists. Read more about EIF’s new handicrafts and tourism partnership in Uganda
Weaving African Business Into a World Market: Why One Woman Is Training Basket Weavers in Uganda to Sell Their Products Abroad
Learn more about how Anne is working with women across Uganda to market their products internationally using provisions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in this YALI Network blog post
Our partners
