Told from the ground up

• 21 articles
• 11 news outlets
• 2023 the earliest

• African Business Africa’s Young Disruptors: Part Two Names Denise among 20 African entrepreneurs under 30, tracing BetterLife from a USD 200 start to work across five countries. 12 August 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• Ubuntu Times Uganda’s Young Innovators: The Bright Minds Driving the Country’s Technology Revolution Features Soilla, BetterLife’s soil-health app for smallholder farmers, among Uganda’s young innovations. 25 June 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• The Citizen, Tanzania Three Tanzanians make Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list Reports the East Africans on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list, naming Denise as founder of BetterLife International Organisation. 23 June 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• New Vision Forbes honours 21-year-old Ugandan for climate change activism Covers Denise’s place in the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Class of 2026 and BetterLife’s youth-led climate work. 21 June 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• Pulse Uganda Meet two young Ugandans listed on Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 Class of 2026 Introduces Denise and how she founded BetterLife as a student, with USD 200 for its first community activities. 21 June 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• Watchdog Uganda Ugandan Climate Advocate Denise Ayebare Named in Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Class of 2026 Tells how BetterLife grew, from Soilla to biogas and water access, reaching more than 40,000 people in five countries. 19 June 2026Read (opens in a new tab)
• Facts Media Uganda Empowering Refugees Through Climate-Smart Agriculture in Northern Uganda Climate-smart farming training for refugee women in settlements in Northern Uganda, where the article reports 280 women trained. 5 October 2025Read (opens in a new tab)

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• Lango News Network Clean Cooking Revolution: BetterLife Champions Sustainable Energy in Uganda’s Kitchens Biogas and clean cooking in Western Uganda, taking the smoke of wood fires out of household kitchens. 5 August 2025Read (opens in a new tab)

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• Facts Media Uganda BetterLife International at Five Years: Transforming 90,000 Lives Across East Africa Looks back on BetterLife’s early years as a youth-led organisation working across Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Ghana. 14 April 2025Read (opens in a new tab)
• Tayari News Uganda From Field to Market: How BetterLife Is Helping Smallholder Farmers Get Fair Prices BetterLife’s market work with farmers: cooperative marketing, market information, post-harvest storage and agribusiness training. 28 February 2025Read (opens in a new tab)
• Lango News Network Water, Life, and Dignity: How BetterLife’s Borehole Programme Transformed Eastern Uganda How BetterLife built 65 boreholes across Eastern Uganda when the COVID-19 pandemic made safe water a matter of life and death. 10 January 2025Read (opens in a new tab)
• Dokolo Post Women-Led Cooperatives: How BetterLife Is Building Economic Power from the Ground Up BetterLife’s support for women-led farming cooperatives in refugee settlements and host communities in Northern Uganda. 22 November 2024Read (opens in a new tab)
• Trend.Az Youth organizations receive only small percentage of global climate funding: Betterlife founder Reports from COP29 in Baku, where Denise spoke about how little global climate funding reaches youth organisations. 11 November 2024Read (opens in a new tab)
• Dokolo Post Poultry Farming for Prosperity: How BetterLife Is Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods One Flock at a Time BetterLife’s poultry training, from starting a flock to preventing disease, as a living where land is scarce and harvests uncertain. 8 July 2024Read (opens in a new tab)
• Facts Media Uganda Sweetening Lives: How BetterLife Is Using Beekeeping to Build Economic Independence Beekeeping as income, food and conservation for refugee households and smallholder farmers in Northern and Western Uganda. 3 April 2024Read (opens in a new tab)
• Dokolo Post From Settlement to Greenhouse: BetterLife’s Technology-Driven Approach to Refugee Farming Greenhouse farming and other proven technology brought to a refugee settlement in Northern Uganda. 14 February 2024Read (opens in a new tab)
• Facts Media Uganda 48 Biogas Plants, One Vision: How BetterLife Is Bringing Clean Energy to Western Uganda Behind the 48 biogas plants in Western Uganda: how households are chosen and how local masons and plumbers build each digester. 5 September 2023Read (opens in a new tab)
• Dokolo Post Growing Food, Growing Hope: How Mushroom Farming Is Transforming Livelihoods in Uganda How BetterLife has brought mushroom growing to farming communities as a year-round source of food and income. 7 June 2023Read (opens in a new tab)
• Dokolo Post From Plastic Waste to Building Blocks: How BetterLife Is Turning Uganda’s Trash Into Opportunity How BetterLife turns plastic waste into building materials, and into opportunity for the communities it works with. 14 March 2023Read (opens in a new tab)

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