Getting to where she is now, was a big piece of luck, says Angella Marjorie. Being a girl, her chances of getting into secondary school were slim. Her life took a turning point, when she happened to come across the “Social Innovation Academy” in Uganda. With their help, she was able to complete her school education and raise her child as a single mother. She wanted other women to have this kind of luck and founded the Gejja Women Foundation in 2015. The name reflects the underlying idea of the program: Gejja means “surpassing oneself”, and this is what Angella wanted to achieve with her foundation. Her goal was to empower girls, young women, single mothers, and widows to become economically independent and lead a self-determined life. The guiding notion in her engagement was – and still is – the experience of her own life: „Good people have helped me. Now it’s my turn to help.”