2019 Service Report
Uganda Empowers is a community-based organization that provides prevention and care for those affected by HIV/AIDS. This service reports details our activities.
Highlights from this report
We enrolled 142 new students, boys and girls, into the Kyawagonya community school.
We received donation to lay foundation/ground for the teachers’ house from Jael a science intern & volunteer from Switzerland. In front of the school management council, Jael doing a ground-breaking to lay foundation for the teacher’s house.
Construction of the foundation.
We started construction of P.4 and P.5 classrooms, we are so grateful of the $500USD contribution Joachim. At his 60th birthday he chose to be given money instead of gifts by his family and friends so that he can send it to UE charity.
Sophia is a 1 year period volunteer from Germany, among other voluntary tasks at the clinic and in the field, she spare her time teaching German language at no pay.
Solar Nature technician installing a 2lights system on a grass roofed house. Anybody can access Solar Nature, however we target vulnerable communities, particularly those in the most remote areas, who would not be able to afford hydro electricity and often struggle to afford kerosene and gas.
We carried out different home visiting sessions to monitor and support treatment adherence, sanitation and general HIV positive living among people battling HIV/AIDS.
During this one year service period, Uganda Empowers organized multiple health sessions including free HIV counseling, testing, referral for antiretroviral therapy and follow-up of patients. This was only possible with profit funds from the solar project.
Agriculture being the main income generating activity for many local Ugandans, Solar Nature profits also benefit children from poor families and they got hoes or garden tools so they can use them during school holidays to boost household garden harvests for both domestic food and commercial food.
At Uganda Empowers we believe in “supporting a man to learn how to fish than giving him a fish” and this is how we optioned to creating village saving and loaning associations (VSLA). With Solar Nature profits, we managed to create 2 successful groups benefiting 60 direct members from household poverty to an economic stable status.
Students of Kyawagonya Community Nursery and Primary School posing for a photo at a toilet. (The toilet is still under construction).
RHSP is a regional NGO established in 1987 in greater Masaka district where the HIV&AIDS epidemic started in Uganda in the 80s. This NGO sub-grants outstanding community based organizations to implement giving services to children victimized by HIV/AIDS. RHSP supported UE to identify and refer orphans for free HIV counseling & screening.
RHSP also funded this effort: Girls aged between 14 to 18years where supported to attain hairdressing and or tailoring skills, they were also given start-up tools to live a self-reliant livelihood.
RHSP also funded this effort: Children from deprived families receiving free school materials.
Uganda Marathon is a charity foundation that organizes annual race generating money to fund local groups whose objectives match with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). 
Under SDG-7, Uganda Empowers won a renewable energy business booster grant and it was switched to the solar project. We haven’t only provided reliable and affordable power to remote families but generated income to fund charity work.
ENVenture is a clean energy promotion agency supporting community based organizations by giving out loans to start and maintain renewable power projects which aim of reaching carbon free energy to the end users.
During project support supervision, Aneri the CEO at ENVenture meet the youth supported by UE to acquire motorbike mechanic skills.
The Malayika foundation is a group of concerned friends that follow-up Uganda Empowers’ programs and gives a hand when we call for support. After learning that economic empowerment is the best way of transforming vulnerable people to steady livelihood, they funded formation of two Village Saving and Loaning Associations (VSLA). In a group photo, Lwensinga Twezimbe VSLA members posing with their individual saving books (these are used to record and track everyone’s savings.)
At some point when UE identifies an immediate need for help, we call everyone to give or support to rectify the situation and this can be done via facebook or community hands-on charity. In a related way, we landed on a child-headed home of 7 orphans living a very hard life. 
As poor children they got multiple survival needs but the crucial one is a safe and permanent house, kitchen and toilet, something that would mean a home to them. In tears, the old girls says — this house leaks whenever it rains and it is shaking nearly falling down on us whenever it rains, we never sleep when it rains in the dark, we are at a big risk. 
Uganda Empowers got concerned and asked everyone to give, by luck we got some contributions from well wishers and we built the house almost at 60%, however we still require more support to give a complete gift of a house to these needy little souls.
2019 Service Report
Uganda Empowers is a community-based organization that provides prevention and care for those affected by HIV/AIDS. This service reports details our activities.
Highlights from this report
We enrolled 142 new students, boys and girls, into the Kyawagonya community school.
We received donation to lay foundation/ground for the teachers’ house from Jael a science intern & volunteer from Switzerland. In front of the school management council, Jael doing a ground-breaking to lay foundation for the teacher’s house.
Construction of the foundation.
We started construction of P.4 and P.5 classrooms, we are so grateful of the $500USD contribution Joachim. At his 60th birthday he chose to be given money instead of gifts by his family and friends so that he can send it to UE charity.
Sophia is a 1 year period volunteer from Germany, among other voluntary tasks at the clinic and in the field, she spare her time teaching German language at no pay.
Solar Nature technician installing a 2lights system on a grass roofed house. Anybody can access Solar Nature, however we target vulnerable communities, particularly those in the most remote areas, who would not be able to afford hydro electricity and often struggle to afford kerosene and gas.
We carried out different home visiting sessions to monitor and support treatment adherence, sanitation and general HIV positive living among people battling HIV/AIDS.
During this one year service period, Uganda Empowers organized multiple health sessions including free HIV counseling, testing, referral for antiretroviral therapy and follow-up of patients. This was only possible with profit funds from the solar project.
Agriculture being the main income generating activity for many local Ugandans, Solar Nature profits also benefit children from poor families and they got hoes or garden tools so they can use them during school holidays to boost household garden harvests for both domestic food and commercial food.
At Uganda Empowers we believe in “supporting a man to learn how to fish than giving him a fish” and this is how we optioned to creating village saving and loaning associations (VSLA). With Solar Nature profits, we managed to create 2 successful groups benefiting 60 direct members from household poverty to an economic stable status.
Students of Kyawagonya Community Nursery and Primary School posing for a photo at a toilet. (The toilet is still under construction).
RHSP is a regional NGO established in 1987 in greater Masaka district where the HIV&AIDS epidemic started in Uganda in the 80s. This NGO sub-grants outstanding community based organizations to implement giving services to children victimized by HIV/AIDS. RHSP supported UE to identify and refer orphans for free HIV counseling & screening.
RHSP also funded this effort: Girls aged between 14 to 18years where supported to attain hairdressing and or tailoring skills, they were also given start-up tools to live a self-reliant livelihood.
RHSP also funded this effort: Children from deprived families receiving free school materials.
Uganda Marathon is a charity foundation that organizes annual race generating money to fund local groups whose objectives match with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Under SDG-7, Uganda Empowers won a renewable energy business booster grant and it was switched to the solar project. We haven’t only provided reliable and affordable power to remote families but generated income to fund charity work.
ENVenture is a clean energy promotion agency supporting community based organizations by giving out loans to start and maintain renewable power projects which aim of reaching carbon free energy to the end users. During project support supervision, Aneri the CEO at ENVenture meet the youth supported by UE to acquire motorbike mechanic skills.
The Malayika foundation is a group of concerned friends that follow-up Uganda Empowers’ programs and gives a hand when we call for support. After learning that economic empowerment is the best way of transforming vulnerable people to steady livelihood, they funded formation of two Village Saving and Loaning Associations (VSLA). In a group photo, Lwensinga Twezimbe VSLA members posing with their individual saving books (these are used to record and track everyone’s savings.)
At some point when UE identifies an immediate need for help, we call everyone to give or support to rectify the situation and this can be done via facebook or community hands-on charity. In a related way, we landed on a child-headed home of 7 orphans living a very hard life. As poor children they got multiple survival needs but the crucial one is a safe and permanent house, kitchen and toilet, something that would mean a home to them. In tears, the old girls says — this house leaks whenever it rains and it is shaking nearly falling down on us whenever it rains, we never sleep when it rains in the dark, we are at a big risk. Uganda Empowers got concerned and asked everyone to give, by luck we got some contributions from well wishers and we built the house almost at 60%, however we still require more support to give a complete gift of a house to these needy little souls.
