The Uganda Partnership

The Uganda Partnership is a grassroots project that was started by a Ugandan development worker that grew up in Bushenyi Uganda and a group of Canadians who saw a great need to help the ever growing population of widows and children in the area that were being totally neglected by the impoverished community. The project has gradually expanded into different partnership projects that help to empower widows and children.

We work with local widows, grandmothers and children of which many have been affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty. All of our projects begin and are designed through our ongoing participatory research, where the benefactors of the projects are an integral part of the project from planning to execution.

We help to empower widows through group loans for income generation and housing. We promote health and HIV/AIDS awareness by helping to provide access to doctors and loans for medical bills. We assist children who are unable to pay for their school fees to attend school without worrying about being sent away. We have a positive presence in our community and work with people for empowerment, education and sustainable change.

Students at Vincent Massy Junior High School

have adopted the Ugandan Village that the Uganda Partnership works in. The students have already provided funding for the following projects:
- Emergency food supply for over 120 families during the drought of Fall 2009
- 5 Pay-it-Forward scholarships and locating permanent sponsors
- Microfinance loans for three widows groups
- HIV health, providing transportation to doctors and medicine as well as funds for new members to join.
- The youth group to begin their first income generating project to earn money to finish school
- Christmas sports events for 2009.

Uganda Partnership