Alpha Female is a refugee-led, women-centered organization helping young women and girls heal from displacement, discover their purpose, build livelihoods and lead change in their communities.
"Every woman has a purpose in life — find it, own it, live it, and leave a legacy."
Who we are
Based in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Isingiro, Uganda, we support young women and girls facing the combined effects of displacement, poverty, gender-based violence, interrupted education, disability and social exclusion.
We don't treat empowerment as a workshop — we treat it as a journey. The SHE-Alters model is a five-pillar pathway from healing to leadership, designed for women who need more than one intervention.
The SHE-Alters Model
Most programs stop at one intervention. SHE-Alters is sequenced: a woman can enter at any stage, but she never has to leave to find the next one.
Safe spaces & psychosocial support
Safe spaces, community dialogues, monthly meetups, school clubs and WhatsApp communities — emotional readiness before training and leadership.
Explore SHE-Bond: Safe Spaces & Psychosocial SupportPurpose, identity & mindset
Helping women and girls discover their gifts, passions and strengths. From shame and uncertainty to confidence and goals.
Explore SHE-Manifest: Purpose & Leadership TrainingPractical skills & value addition
Hands-on agroecological value addition and production skills that turn into products, services and household income.
Explore SHE-Merchandise: Agroecological Value AdditionEntrepreneurship & digital
Business basics, marketing, digital literacy and income planning. Connecting skills to markets, customers and income.
Explore SHE-Monetize: Entrepreneurship & Digital SkillsLeadership, advocacy & mentorship
Storytelling, podcasts, campaigns and public engagement. Beneficiaries become mentors and visible community leaders.
Explore SHE-Build: Advocacy & Community DialoguesThe full pathway — every program below connects to one of these five pillars.
Our Programs
From safe spaces for survivors to enterprise support, our work meets women and girls where they are — and walks with them toward where they want to go.
Confidential circles where women and girls — especially survivors of gender-based violence — can speak honestly, be believed, and rebuild emotional safety.
A structured curriculum on identity, self-awareness, vision, financial principles and leadership — so every woman leaves knowing what she is building and why.
Hands-on production training in organic skincare, fortified cooking oil, green banana value addition, organic oil perfumes, catering and baking.
Business fundamentals, marketing, digital literacy and pathways to seed funding — so trained women can actually earn, formalise and grow.
Safe school clubs for primary-school girls — confidence, rights awareness, mentorship and honest conversations about the pressures they actually face.
Community dialogues and campaigns on GBV, education participation, inclusion and women's empowerment — because individual change needs a community that will hold it.
Learning through doing
Skills become income when women have room to practice.
Girls in school
Keep her in school, and in herself.
SHE-Alters
Healing, purpose, skills and leadership are connected — so progress does not stop after one workshop.
Impact 2022 – 2025
Five women-led initiatives have been connected to further support through iUPSHIFT, FRC digital training and livelihoods programmes.
Our advocacy outcomes have been presented at a UNGA 80th meeting under UNYO, and featured during the 5th anniversary of the Amazon Leadership Initiative in Nigeria.
Field notes
A glimpse of the people, places and conversations behind every Alpha Female program — photographed in the communities we serve.
Inside Alpha Female
A team built around lived experience.
Start with listening
Every solution begins with a room where people feel heard.
In the settlement
Change travels through community.
Partners in the field
Local knowledge makes the work stronger.
Collective wins
Progress is something we celebrate together.
Learning across movements
A growing network of people validating African dreams.
Shared leadership
Many hands, one commitment to dignity and opportunity.
The people behind the work
The work is powered by relationships.
The team
Two women pairing lived experience of displacement with professional practice in community development and finance.
Founder and Executive Director of Alpha Female (Ultimate Game Changers), a women refugee-led not-for-profit empowering women and girls facing intersectional vulnerabilities.
As a social innovator, trainer and community development practitioner, Confiance has spent years designing and implementing programs that strengthen women's leadership, psychosocial well-being, financial capability and sustainable livelihoods. Having lived the realities of displacement, poverty and limited educational opportunities, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work — building solutions that are community-driven, trauma-informed and sustainable.
She has trained thousands of women, youth and refugee entrepreneurs in financial education, entrepreneurship, life skills and purpose discovery through collaborations with national and international organizations.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to heal, discover her potential, meaningfully participate in economic development, and transform her life and community — moving beyond survival to become a confident changemaker driving lasting social and economic transformation.
Finance lead at Alpha Female (ugc), supporting the organization's mission of empowering women and girls through community engagement and organizational development.
Emmeline completed her Uganda Advanced Certificate and has 2 years of experience in the humanitarian space. She is beginning her professional journey with a strong desire to learn, serve and grow in the nonprofit sector — passionate about working with communities, supporting women and girls, and contributing to initiatives that create positive and lasting change.
Joining Alpha Female provides her with an opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners while contributing to an organization that believes in dignity, inclusion, and empowering women and girls to build brighter futures for themselves and their communities.
Vision
Safe, just, empowered and transformed women and girls.
Mission
To empower young women and girls facing intersecting vulnerabilities through psychosocial support, purpose discovery, personal and professional growth, practical skills, agroecological value addition, economic empowerment, and gender and social inclusion advocacy.
Work with us
Partners can support training cohorts, safe spaces and psychosocial support, school clubs, agroecological livelihood projects, entrepreneurship and digital training, advocacy dialogues, mentorship platforms, and seed funding for women-led initiatives.
Alpha Female (Ultimate Game Changers)
