OUR PROGRAMS
LIVELIHOOD & RESILIENCE
Financial Literacy
Photo: VSLA group Leaders receiving their toolkit at SCU office/Nakivale in March 2022
The FL program focuses on teaching the community members the skills and knowledge they need to allow them to make informed and effective decisions regarding money matters. The FL program empowers youth and adults to be financially literate and take control of their financial future by understanding basic financial principles.
Entrepreneurial-Business
Photo: Visit to Revolution VSLA group/Nakivale in June 2022
The program is designed for potential youth entrepreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs to empower them with entrepreneurial and business skills to start their small businesses. The training is focused on developing their business ideas by getting to know themselves and their surroundings better and guides them through the process of making their ideas realities.
Start & Improve Your BusinessÂ
Photo: Members of Usafi Nakivale Association in SIYB training in Nakivale/2022
SIYB course focuses on helping to establish and develop small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment for women and men, inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs to create inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
Upshift
Photo: Entreprise started after the Upshift bootcamp and managed by adolescents in Nakivale/2022
Aims to build transferable skills and social innovation among adolescents and young girls and boys. It empowers young people to identify challenges in their communities and create entrepreneurial solutions to address them.
Computer Literacy
Intercultural digital skilling for Adolescents girls in Nakivale/2020
Provide youth with the foundations for future works and careers in computation-based problem solving.
Taught Modules:Â Introduction to Computers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Introduction to Internet
GET Ahead
Photo: Gender and Entrepreneur Together TOT in Nakivale settlement/Jan 2023
The Gender and Entrepreneurship Together program aims to support women and men in their efforts to start and grow thriving small businesses, while reconizing the different barriers and opportunities affecting women’s and men’s abilities to dedicates time and ressources to leading successfull business.
EDUCATION & TRAININGS
English Language
Students in English language training for adult in Nakivale/2019
Designed to unlock doors of success by providing equitable opportunities to young refugees so that they can integrate into Uganda by breaking language barriers.
Support to Sports and leisure for youth
Photo: The Nakivale female basketball team preparing for a match/2018
To improve youth’s educational attainment and skills development contributing to their overall well-being, future prospects and even accelerating development and peace efforts worldwide.
Epidemics prevention
Photo: People and animale using water form Lac Nakivale. This lac is one the the source of the spread of disease among refugees
Organize educational and social communication activities aimed at promoting healthy conditions, lifestyles, behavior and environments; apply effectively measures that prevent the occurrence of a disease, and measures that are applied to prevent transmission by using their own resources.
Environment & Climate Action
Promote Agroforestry
Photo: Association of threes and crops technics to be adopted in Nakivale
Help farmers to diversify products, markets and farm income; improve soil and water quality and reduce erosion, non-point source pollution and damage due to flooding.
Plastic Waste Management
Photo: Upshift group transforming plastic waste into pavers in Nakivale
The provided campaign is mainly aimed at reducing the single-use of plastic to an almost zero level so that they should not be dumped under the ground with wastes.
Protection & INCLUSION
Social cohesion & Peace building
Youth leaders in social cohesion and peace building training in Nakivale/2022
The training outlined the principles of peace building and standardized conflict solving mechanisms needed in the refugee and host community settings.
Child Protection
Photo: Graduation day at Light to Progress Academy in Nakivale, 2023
We aim to protect children from different forms of abuse, exploitation, teenager pregnancy. We work in partnership with local education institution for Early Childhood Development and Primary schools for children development and education.