The Ground Zero Project for the Needy,poor and Ophans

History of the organization
Ground zero project (GZP) was first/initially formed as a youth and womens group in august, 2008, by a few women and youth of kabale District who saw the need to pool their saving together to alleviate poverty, eliminate violence against rural women, harmful practices among the women and youth to involve a system to proving revolving fund and training in business manag

ement skills to needy members to start micro-businesses or expand existing micro-projects. At that time, (and even now it was very difficult for the economically active poor women more especially women with HIV/AIDS and youth to access credit or loans from banks and other commercial institutions as they lacked collateral a limiting factor to the majority of poor women who form the bulk of the population. By December, 2011, the womens and youth group was registered as a CBO to pursue revolving fund credit, training, capacity building and development projects that target the economically poor women, especially women with HIV/AIDS and youth in kabale District and other parts of south western Uganda. So on 15 .12 .2011 the Organization was registered with its registration number 1144.