United Way Uganda founded in 2005 is a volunteer-led, nonprofit organization that creates change and improves communities by creating partnerships between donors, volunteers and service providers. United Way Uganda gathers financial, human and material resources from donors and works together with the donors and the community to address identified community needs. Our efforts have been focused in
the following areas:
We undertake interventions on malaria prevention among pregnant women and children under five, psychosocial support and prevention, care and support for children living with HIV and orphans and vulnerable children and nutrition for children under five. United Way Uganda’s water and sanitation program is focused on improving health by bringing safe water close to people’s homes and improving hygiene and sanitation practices to curb diseases. United Way therefore drills boreholes, encourages protection of springs and constructing gravity water flow schemes. United Way Uganda aims at increasing the proportion of girls and boys completing primary and secondary school education by 2015, working through our partners, we are building dormitories, classroom blocks, providing education facilities and services and strengthening the capacity of households and communities.
