We are Mission Uganda

A non-profit organization that supports good causes and positive change all over Northern Uganda

Our Mission

The organization embraces innovativeness/creativeness, Inclusiveness, transparency, equality, human rights and Peace

Our Vission

An empowered, Peaceful & Inclusive society where Human rights and dignity are respected and upheld.

Our Values

What we do

Our thematic areas

Empowerment Initiatives

Mission- Uganda looks at empowerment as a process of supporting another person/persons to discover & claim social or economic power. Over the years of operation, we have managed to empower youth groups, women & persons with disabilities and apparently, most of them are engaged in activities such as Village Savings & Loans Association (VSLA), Apiary/bee keeping, Liquid soap production, hairdressing, agri-business activities, handmade crafts & re-usable pads enterprising. Across the period of implementation, 85% of women/women with disabilities have benefitted from the different activities and this has continued to empower them economically & socially.

Peace building

This is an intervention that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural & structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict. It revolves around developing constructive personal and group relationships across ethnic, religious, class, national, and racial boundaries. This process includes violence prevention, conflict management, resolution, transformation and post-conflict reconciliation (mediation) or trauma healing, i.e., before, during, and after any given case of violence. Mission- Uganda supports different community structures to ensure that violent land conflicts are handled amicably through mediations among conflicting parties, boundary inspection/verifications to enable unified understanding and agreement on boundary points for peaceful co-existence among individuals especially the vulnerable women.

Human Rights

These are moral principles/norms for certain standards of human behaviour that are regularly protected in different societal settings. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being which are inherent in all human beings regardless of their age, ethnic origin, location, language, religion, ethnicity, or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal. Under this thematic area, Mission Uganda target sexual reproductive rights and land rights of women & persons with disabilities.

Health/Youth-friendly services

Mission Uganda provides both clinical and non-clinical services to a cross-section of target clients through static health sites and community outreaches to partner health facilities. These sites offer platforms for the provision of youth-friendly services like guidance & counselling, dialogues on menstrual hygiene, adolescent sexual reproductive health rights, HIV Counselling & testing, cervical cancer screening, family planning counselling and provision of services, and training on other adolescent trenbolone enanthate sexual reproductive health services, conducting referrals of HIV patients to access services etc. These interventions have been made possible through collaborations with private and other government facilities through the commitment of service providers/ health workers in the provision of services and Youth Facility Volunteers (YFVs) as well as Community Based Health Volunteers (CBHV) in offering health education and conducting referrals for service access by the youth, HIV patients & women of sexual reproductive health ages for family planning counselling and services.

NUTRITION

Mission Uganda addresses the immediate determinants of child nutrition and development in areas of inadequate food and nutrient intake, feeding, caregiving and parenting practices as well as access to clean water and sanitation. The Organisation works with community structures/Volunteers to constantly conduct mapping of households with children identified with nutritional problems hence, their monthly reports greatly informs our subsequent interventions with identified nutritional needs. Over the implementation periods, Mission Uganda has been able to train parents/caregivers on improved nutritional methods, management of nutritional challenges in children below 5 years, practical cooking demonstration to support caregivers improve their knowledge and skills in preparing nutritional meals for children, referral of children identified with critical nutritional issues to medical facilities for redress, material nutritional support to children identified with severe malnutrition.

Environmental Management

Climate change threatens health and health systems in the communities where we live and work. In an attempt to enforce environmental protection and green economy issues, the organization conducts mass awareness campaigns on environment protection and green economy as well as practical engagement of community members in activities geared towards enhancing environmental protection. Over the implementation periods, it was noted that the deforestation rate is still high due to charcoal burning in the community hence the level of water running seems equally high causing infertility of soil and low productivity, farmers yarning for more support because of the weather changes (prolong drought) which has been affecting farming seasons.

Research & Advocacy.

Research is a process of systematic inquiry that entails the collection of data, documentation of critical information, and analysis and interpretation of data/information in accordance with suitable methodologies. Mission Uganda prioritizes conducting research to ascertain facts before an intervention is taken or before executing an advocacy campaign/meeting. Results of research often conducted informed advocacy events focusing on different categories of persons (children, youth, women & persons with disabilities).

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