Established in 2016 by Leonard as Hopeland Ministry – working with only children at the time, we rebranded as servicing Uganda’s most vulnerable and rural communities. We create programs that fall into one or more of the four pillars necessary to alleviate poverty: Children Education, Access to Healthcare, Community Empowerment and Youth Employment through skills vocational training. Each program
works to provide tangible opportunities for self-sustainability.Beyond Nations in 2020 and registered as a 501(C)(3) Organization and have since evolved into multiple programs
WHY WE CARE
According to UBOS, 42.1 percent of Uganda’s population lack in several socials and economic aspects of a normal human life. The survey conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, took into consideration a number of aspects including access to education, health services, quality of living standards, as well as employment and financial inclusion levels, to ascertain what kind of lifestyle Ugandans are living. 18 million people were found to be deprived in one or more of these aspects. Basing on this report, the fight against poverty in Uganda is still a very big challenge, and the poverty distribution is something to keep a keen eye on. According to UBOS, the findings of this report reveal what is going on in the Ugandan population, adding that the 18 million are multidimensional poor in either two or more of the aspects that were considered in the research, which are the determinants of a human being’s well-being to enable prosperity. He adds that 14.7% of them are deprived of an income, meaning they are extremely poor in all dimensions of poverty. This group of Ugandans are below extreme poverty, which is determined by the absolute poverty line measure, of less than a dollar a day. The rural poor in Uganda face many daunting challenges. Many are locked into a cycle of crises from which even the most gifted policy makers would find it hard to escape. At the heart of the problem is a critical lack of investments especially in education, healthcare and infrastructure. The vast majority of Uganda’s rural poor live below the poverty line, subsisting in the rural villages or urban shanty towns which lack even the most basic amenities. Economic isolation is made worse by poor roads and limited market access. In these circumstances, many households find it difficult to meet basic subsistence requirements, much less generating a surplus for the market. This unhappy picture is compounded by a poor investment climate, stagnating economic growth and weak private sector. But these people are not helpless. What is unreasonable, however, is the inequitable and unrealistic to expectation of policy makers for the poor to buy their way out of poverty. The villages and urban slums in Uganda are populated by malnourished children and under-employed or unemployed young adults. About 80 per cent of the population is below the age of 35, and the median age is estimated at about 16. According to a 2017 report from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics indicates that the fertility rate is 5.8. This means that without action, the situation for the poor is only going to get worse.
