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Project in Uganda

  • Action on Disability and Development

    Throughout Africa, disabled people are amongst the poorest, and are often stigmatised and rejected by society. This project supports the work of disabled people's organisations in four African countries and lobbies their governments to improve the provision of accessible health care, education and other services to disabled people. They use the media and other avenues to challenge the stigma and discrimination disabled people face and work to ensure that disabled people are included in all parts of society. This project operates in four countries, with a spend of £750,000 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £750000

  • Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA)

    There are over 220,000 refugees in Uganda, and they need legal representation, protection from abuse, and support for themselves and their families. The project, based at the Legal Aid Clinic, promotes the rights of refugees and helps improve their welfare. Refugees receive free legal support, advice and counselling, as well as access to social services. The project also supports refugees suffering from trauma and psychological problems.

    Amount Awarded: £150000

  • Africare

    Women affected by HIV and their children can struggle to cope with the impact of the disease. This project supports households affected by HIV to get support by providing income-generating activities so families can improve their finances. They also run community activities to tackle stigma by challenging attitudes towards people affected by HIV. This gives people living with the disease a chance to earn a living and live in less fear.

    Amount Awarded: £145000

  • Busoga Association

    In the slum areas of Jinja in Uganda, people are living in overcrowded conditions, often with inadequate water, sanitation, health and education services. The Busoga Association is supporting women-led community organisations in five slum areas to help women and young people to gain new skills and get literacy training. Additionally, a credit guarantee scheme is helping women to get land and to build or renovate their houses.

    Amount Awarded: £416530

  • Busoga Association

    Girls often miss out on school because of pregnancy, early marriage, poverty, or cultural beliefs. This project works to improve the status of girls and young mothers in Busoga society by getting them into school. The project provides income generating activities so families can support girls through school, and they work to tackle discrimination against girls. They also work with local community groups to encourage families to listen more to their daughters' views.

    Amount Awarded: £476520

  • CAFOD

    The best HIV prevention programmes are ones that are well-integrated with care and support services. This project supports an HIV programme in Dar Es Salaam, which provides HIV counselling and testing, home-based care, support groups for HIV-positive people, help for orphans and their carers, and care for people at the end of their lives. This means people affected by HIV can have a better quality of life, and local organisations can respond better to HIV in their communities.This project operates in three countries, with a spend of £202,581 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £202581

  • Education Action International

    Children in northern Uganda struggle to learn very much at primary school as lessons are taught in English – a language they don’t understand.  This project works with schools, parents and the education authority to introduce teaching materials in their own language. The project trains teachers in using these new materials, and works with parents so that they encourage their children to remain in school. Children are then supported to move to learning in English as they get older. This supports children to complete their education, as family-based learning is an effective way of keeping children in school. 

    Amount Awarded: £899345

  • Equality Now

    Many women and girls in Africa are survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that devastates young lives. The project works in 14 African countries to challenge this practice by talking to communities about the health and psychological risks and getting community leaders on board so that alternatives to this harmful practice can be found. Women are also given the confidence to know and campaign for their right to live free from this terrible practice. This project operates in 11 countries, with a spend of £35,000 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £35000

  • Fullwell Mill Foods

    Millions of farmers in Africa find it difficult to get a fair price for their produce. The project works with banana and pineapple farmers in Uganda to help them get a fair price by forming a group which sells their produce under the Fairtrade label. This will increase their income and help to make their businesses more sustainable.

    Amount Awarded: £113875

  • Great Nile Trust

    People living with HIV in rural Uganda face stigma, and lack good healthcare and other services. Orphans and widows are often not aware of their rights to property after the family breadwinner dies. This project works to improve the quality of life of people affected by HIV through home-based care from community health workers and trained volunteers, who provide practical help, counselling and advice. They also support women through training and providing start-up grants so they can run their own business, and get legal advice so they can keep the land and assets of their husband.

    Amount Awarded: £210000

  • Healthlink Worldwide (Formerly AHRTAG)

    The HIV epidemic is having a devastating impact on poor communities across Africa as communities are weakened when people fall ill or die. Community-based organisations are key to tackling the crisis but need support to help them grow and develop. This project supports organisations across five countries, providing them with funds, skills and training to improve their services and reach even more people. This project operates in five countries, with a spend of £574,593.80 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £574593

  • Inter-African Women Development organisation (IAWDO)

    There is a very high HIV infection rate among commercial sex workers on a central highway in Uganda, and these women also face abuse and exploitation. The project provides a drop-in centre for the women and girls to get confidential health services, advice and a chance to meet in a safe environment. The project also provides skills training so the women have options other than selling sex to make a living.

    Amount Awarded: £269853

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    Women living with HIV in Africa are one of the most underprivileged groups, often struggling to get medical care and rarely aware of their rights to treatment and support. The project trains women so they can support other positive women in negotiating for their rights – whether it be to land or property, or access to health services. After training, these women will provide essential support to thousands of other women living with HIV. This project operates in seven countries, with a spend of £71,428 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £71428

  • International Development through Sport UK (IDS)

    Many children who have been abused or exploited by adults have very low self-esteem and it can be hard for them to trust people. Sport can help to reach out to these children as it can build their confidence and make them feel part of a team. The project will work with sports practitioners across Africa to identify how sport can be best used to change children’s lives. This project operates in eight countries, with a £47,700 spend of in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £47700

  • National Institute for African Studies

    Most people who are sick in Uganda tend to turn to traditional healers first. This project involves both traditional and medical health services to provide a better quality home-based care programme for people affected by HIV, as well as improving referrals between the traditional and medical services. The project also aims to challenge stigma around HIV in local communities as well as providing school materials, vocational skills training and funds to start income generating schemes for people affected by HIV.

    Amount Awarded: £456602

  • Pan African Development Education Advocacy Programme

    Refugees in Uganda are one of the most vulnerable communities who need access to shelter, food, medical care and education. This project focuses on providing vocational training, language training, literacy classes, legal aid and counselling. The project helps to set up youth clubs and supports refugee-led organisations so that refugees have access to services, have skills for work and access to legal advice.

    Amount Awarded: £600000

  • Pearl of Africa

    Many people fleeing the conflict in Northern Uganda were forced to leave everything. More than 64,000 people who escaped the war now live in slums where overcrowding and poor sanitation has meant disease is rife. The project works with residents to help them form a community association which can negotiate with government for improvements in their living conditions. They also support the community to build drainage systems and get vocational training so they can earn a decent living.

    Amount Awarded: £561110

  • Promote Mifumi Project - PROMPT

    Women who experience domestic violence in Uganda also tend to experience poverty and ill-health as a result. They need practical and emotional support, as well as a means to provide for themselves. This project works to raise awareness about domestic violence by targeting the police, the courts, and social services, as well as community leaders so that women get the support they need. The project also runs a number of refuges for women experiencing violence. They also lobby the national government so that criminalising domestic violence is included in national legislation.

    Amount Awarded: £2824000

  • RETRAK

    RETRAK have worked with street boys in Kampala since 1994, building relationships with them through football, medical care, weekly feeding, and education. Boys receive regular counselling, education and life-skills preparation.  Eventually, most boys resettle back into their own families, integrate into a foster family or live independently. This project is to evaluate the approach and assess the impact of this work over the last 10 years on the lives of children. This will enable the project to track the impact on individual children and will add great value to future work with street children.

    Amount Awarded: £49900

  • Save the Children UK

    Conflict in Western Uganda meant that around 50% of primary schools were closed, and the education system - particularly in remote, mountainous areas – has never been fully restored. Schools lack basic resources, and many teachers are unqualified. Government attempts to improve these facilities have focused on the more accessible, lowland communities, leaving the more mountainous areas under-served. By working with the government desperately, this project will ensure 25,000 children in these remote areas access a good quality basic education.

    Amount Awarded: £500000

  • SCIAF

    People living with HIV and their families in urban slums around Kampala desperately need good medical care, housing, education, psychological support and a chance to earn a living. This programme helps people with HIV, as well as orphans and vulnerable children and their families to get medical treatment for a wide range of diseases including HIV, malaria and TB. Children receive good quality education, specialist healthcare and counselling. Literacy classes, vocational training and microcredit help to increase the incomes for many of the poorest households and ensure a better quality of life for these families.

    Amount Awarded: £2056000

  • SCIAF

    Families living in slums face many difficulties, including poor standards of housing, unsafe water, and high levels of diseases such as HIV. The project works with the residents of the Kamwokya slums in the Ugandan capital by providing care and counselling for the sick. They also provide education and vocational training so that the families of people living with HIV have a means of supporting themselves.

    Amount Awarded: £1000000

  • Tropical Health and Education Trust

    One consequence of the war in northern Uganda has been an increase in mental illness and alcohol abuse, and the health system is unable to provide adequate support. Working together with the Ugandan health service, the project helps individuals suffering from mental illness and alcoholism by training health workers to identify and treat mental illness and alcohol abuse. The project also works to tackle discrimination against people experiencing mental health problems.

    Amount Awarded: £62000

  • Twin

    Over 70% of Africa's people rely on producing food to make a living, but unfair trade rules mean that small-scale farmers struggle to get a fair price for their produce. The project is working to unite farmers’ groups in key countries in Africa to campaign for changes in government policies so that they can better access international markets. The farmers also receive training to ensure their produce meets the Fairtrade standard for export. This project operates in nine countries, with a spend of £89,255.56 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £89255

  • TWIN (Trading) Ltd

    The current growth in demand for Fairtrade and organic coffee provides an opportunity for African farmers to improve their livelihoods. The project works to make the transition to double-certified (Fairtrade and organic), high-quality coffee by providing access to equipment, training and support. This means local producers can get a fairer deal and start to work their own way out of poverty. This project operates in six countries, with a spend of £75,000 in each location

    Amount Awarded: £75000

  • WAR CHILD

    Abuse of young people in Uganda during conflict has left them feeling isolated, so they don't feel part of their communities. This project provides support to excluded children so they can go to primary school. Older children get vocational training and young mothers can learn new skills to support and protect themselves. Over time, children will feel safer and more valued, whatever their past.

    Amount Awarded: £290000

  • Women Working Worldwide

    Female horticultural workers make up the majority of the workforce on farms in East Africa yet have few labour rights or social security and face considerable discrimination from their employers. Women Working Worldwide is strengthening local organisations and women’s groups that support horticultural workers by providing training and financial support. Retailers and farm managers are being lobbied for changes in supply chain processes so that women workers can get a fairer deal. This project operates in three countries, with a spend of £126,290 in each location.

    Amount Awarded: £126290