Tribe + Glory Aims to Raise up Female Entrepreneurs in Uganda

Tribe + Glory’s cofounders Loren Thomas and Caragh Bennet jetted away from their Uganda home office for a few days of business meetings in New York. All about women’s empowerment, their business model is an unusual one that helps entrepreneurs gain the skills they need to succeed while also helping to make Tribe + Glory accessories. More than half of their earnings go back to savings for their own business plans and the remaining amount allows workers and their families to live above the poverty line. The end result is that they complete their runs at Tribe + Glory equipped with the skills to make their own companies function, while also helping to elevate their communities. Their up-with-people approach melds well with two of their commitments this week. The start-up specialists will attend the CFDA’s Fashion Leadership Conference Thursday and later the DVF Awards at the Brooklyn Museum that night. The women are familiar with New York having participated in the Praxis accelerator here for emerging founders last year. Each of the women lived in Uganda for six to eight months during their gap years before college and continued to make trips there afterward. The cofounders and co-chief executive officers first met in

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