LIFE-Uganda was founded in 2008 as a Community Based Organisation (CBO) to empower women, Youth, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) who are socially and economically marginalized and locked up in cycles of absolute poverty through implementation of programmes that foster change and improvement of livelihoods. In December 2014, the Organization was granted an NGO status by the Uganda National N
GO Board (Reg 11021: S.5914/10943. Mission:
To empower economically marginalized rural communities through sustainable development programmes and capacity building. Vision:
A socially and economically transformed community where marginalized women, Youth, Orphans and vulnerable Children (OVCs) achieve their full potential. Our current programmes Activities
• Support for the Single Unmarried Young Mothers. We train young single mothers to acquire basic business and entrepreneurial skills to manage micro businesses and also support their Village Savings & Loan Scheme
• Food and Income security. Under the Food & Income security program we are working with 25 smallholder farmer groups to empower them with knowledge and skills in Commercial agriculture.
• The Youth Motorcycle hire purchase scheme
This empowers young motivated men to improve their livelihoods through the acquisition of a motorbike on a hire purchase basis thereby enabling to have sustainable income on a daily basis. New Program Activities envisaged
1. Climate Change & Adaptation
Katakwi District has been faced with recurring cycles of long dry spells and often followed by floods and water logging. We aim to carry out activities which strengthen community awareness on Climate change and adaptation.
2. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Access to clean and safe water in some parts of the district is still a major problem especially during dry seasons as well as wet seasons when waterlogging occurs.
3. Environment protection & Conservation Activities
We aim to support communities to restore fast declining natural vegetation and biodiversity.
