Allen was born and raised in Mbale, Uganda, and received a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Kyambogo University in Uganda. For her internship, Allen worked with Pourakhi Nepal in Kathmandu. Pourakhi is an organization of returnee women migrants, proactively working to ensure the rights of migrant women across the foreign labor migration spectrum, through advocacy and information sharing. Pourakhi further supports returnee women migrants in reintegrating back into their communities through skills training. In addition, it runs a 24-hour emergency shelter home to meet the urgent needs of its clients. During her four-month internship, Allen supported the implementation of the work of the Freedom Project funded by the International Labour Organisation, specifically in communications, monitoring, and evaluation. After the GLOCAL program, Allen is looking forward to returning to Uganda, and to continue working with poor vulnerable villages across East Africa into becoming agents of their own change and driving development. Community Integration 

 

 

Upon arrival from foreign labor employment, most women have no way of reintegrating back into their communities as most of them migrated to do domestic work. Their communities shun them and they become helpless and disempowered, unable to reintegrate themselves back into their communities Pourakhi Nepal works with the women at the shelter to provide and enhance their skills so they can earn an income and be able to sustain their own lives. Knitting is one of the skills that women learn through the program. 

 

 

 

 

 

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