04/11/2025
https://gofund.me/8db9bed8f
Who We Are and What We Do
Access for Life Uganda (AFLU) is a youth-led, community-based nonprofit in Kizinda, Bushenyi District, working with marginalized adolescent girls and young mothers who face poverty, stigma, and limited opportunities. Many of them dropped out of school due to early pregnancies or lack of financial support, and often survive through low-paying or exploitative work.
We exist to restore dignity, create second chances, and unlock independence for these young women.
Our Vision
A Kizinda where every young woman is equipped with the tools, skills, and opportunities to prosper, free from marginalization, exploitation, and poverty.
How We Do It
1. Sustainable Capital Growth Model (SCGM)
AFLU invests directly in women’s micro and small businesses.
We provide capital injections, business mentorship, and financial literacy training.
Through a shared-value system, beneficiaries grow their businesses while AFLU sustains itself through small returns, making the model self-reliant and sustainable.
2. Community Mothers Business Club (CMBC)
A safe learning and working space for young mothers to gain vocational and practical skills (tailoring, catering, product-making, hairdressing, etc.).
Encourages group saving, peer-to-peer support, and cooperative growth.
3. Mama’s Safe Space
A healing and counseling space for victims of abuse, domestic violence, and exploitation.
Offers emotional support, emergency linkages to police and protection services, and mentorship to rebuild self-worth.
4. On-the-Job Empowerment
We meet young women where they are — in pubs, restaurants, and small workplaces — to provide mentorship, mindset change, and confidence-building sessions while they continue earning.
Our Belief
At AFLU, we believe that independence begins with the ability to choose your own path. When poverty, fear, or exploitation makes the choices for her, that is not independence. We exist to change that.