Light Gives Heat Gives Hope to Africa and AmericaI

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Founded by husband and wife team Dave and Morgan Hansow, Light Gives Heat is a non-profit organization that seeks to create world-changing opportunities in both Africa and America. Based in Grand Junction, Colorado and Jinja, Uganda, Light Gives Heat empowers over a hundred Ugandan artisans by providing consistent incomes every week and offers Americans a way to support the less fortunate, urging them to “be the change they want to see in the world.”

Through its brands SUUBI and EPOH, Light Gives Heat sells stylish women's jewelry and bags in America and reinvests 100 percent of profits back into the Ugandan communities it serves. According to Light Gives Heat, charity doesn't work, but work does; hence, it offers training, management, and jobs to people who need them.

Light Gives Heat was formed in March of 2007, not long before the Hansows and their son moved to Uganda to adopt their daughter.