Current projects

School for children with disabilities in Uganda

In the Teso region of Uganda, there is a high incidence of people living with disabilities. These groups are often shunned by their communities, poverty stricken and, due to their disabilities, unable to vouch for themselves, making them some of the most vulnerable people in the region. Common disabilities include hard of seeing, hard of hearing, loss of muscle function and epilepsy, among others. Children with disabilities have limited options when it comes to schooling, in this region. They feel…

Girl Empowerment Project (GEP)

In 2019, a seed of change, Canada supported IYAU to implement a project titled “Girl Empowerment Project” in Serere District in Uganda” a six month project which was implemented in Kadungulu Sub County in Serere district from May 2019 to October 2019. The goal of the project was to empower girls to overcome menstrual frustration with the primary purpose of improving access to basic education for the girl child through supporting the enrollment, retention and completion rates as well as…

Accelerated Paediatric HIV Prevention and Care in Serere District in Uganda

Funded by The Riverside Church Sharing Fund Committee, New York City, the one year (September 2020 – August 2021) project is aiming to increase the number of HIV-positive children on treatment and to reduce the number of new infections among infants in Kadungulu Sub County in Serere district. The project will also build family, community, and lower level health system centered approaches to help in reducing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women’s and children’s’ health through; Empowering 700 HIV…

Covid-19 Emergency Education Response Project

The COVID-19 outbreak and school closures are expected to have a wide range of impacts on students, teachers and households. Prolonged school closures are expected to lead to a loss in learning. Households will face increasing economic difficulties with raising unemployment and income losses. This could impact the likelihood of children staying in school and transitioning to the next level of education once the schools reopen, increasing the number of out-of-school children. Parents’ ability to contribute to educational inputs may…