RuFI-Uganda

Supporting Young Mothers in Kitchen Gardening
The project is basically aimed at imparting knowledge and skills in the young mothers to make them self reliant. This will benefit the young mothers who have fallen victims of early marriages that is so common in our area.
2018 Tailoring Finalists.
The 2018 final trainees Celebrate after their final Examinations.
Training in Use of Menstrual Cups
Women being trained on the use of Menstrual Caps by SES Expert with our partner organisation Women Foundation for Development
Class one 2019
Finalists of the first enrollment celebrate after completing their course in tailoring and weaving. A total of 14 young girls were able to successful complete the courses.
Creating Sustainable Businesses for women!
Baskets produced by young mothers and girls out school, skilled at RuFI Uganda & through production they earn their own income to support themselves and their families as well help sustain the project!

Welcome to RuFI-Uganda

A youth led community based organisation working towards changing lives of Women & Girls.

Our Mission is to Empower rural communities in fighting poverty, disease and defending the rights of young people through information accessibility and training services.

Mentoring and Vocational Skilling

With the current youth unemployment that stands at more than 70% in Uganda, Vocational life skills training is the major alternative to save the future for women and Girls that deem to face challenges in their daily lives.

Creating Opportunities for young People

RuFI Uganda Trains and offers opportunities to its trainees through our concept of TRAIN, PRODUCE and EARN. This Has acted as a starting point for our trainees that later join to compete with the working class and the business community.

Empowering Women and Girls School Drop Outs

Our projects majorly focuses on create a sustainable financial independence for women which we believe in the long run will reduce women and girls harassment, domestic violence, Gender Equality among others.

Services

Vocational Skills Training

Tailoring, weaving and Knitting are the current major skills being trained at RuFI. With more mobilization of resource we hope to add Hair dressing, Carpentry and Joinery, motor mechanics among others.

Creating and Generating Opportunities for Women

With our Train-Produce-Earn Concept, we are financially empowering girls and women training with to earn from their through production that is aimed at project and activities sustainability.

Career Guidance

We conduct Career guidance sessions in schools especially secondary schools to encourage girls to get focused on studies and complete school.

Disease Control and Awareness

With the rampant HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis, our efforts aims at creating and awareness of these epidemics to communities that are not aware of how they have hindered development.

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Creating a plastic free world

With over 100 Million Tonnes of Plastic items already in the oceans and other water bodies, every year, over 5 million tonnes of plastic waste end up in oceans and lakes. Its predicted that by 2080 there will be more plastic in oceans and lakes than fish.

Creating A Sustainable financial power for women

Globally, women financial power still lags behind in comparison to that of men. This is one of the key factors that creates gender Equality, Domestic violence and denial for education especially in most African communities.

Keep Girls in School and Save the World!

Empowering a girls, empowers a nation. Lets Join hands and keep Girls in School. With a mare sanitary pad, a pen, a book, hundreds of girls have dropped out of school because they cant afford. Support our campaign and lets save the future for many.

Life Skilling, a path way to Save the Future!

With any life skill at ones disposal, this makes one fit in any environment to earn a living. This is the quickest way to have women economic status improved. This has created a spirit to compete in the working and business community.

OUR CURRENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Here are our 2019 current projects and activities aimed at achieve the years Targets and Goals.

SUSTAINABLE FOOD SOURCES AND SECURITY
In our bid to contribute to a hunger free world, encourage women to also actively engage in growing crops for both commercial and family consumption. Maize at RuFI Uganda facility.
ENGAGING WOMEN IN CONSERVATION
We are actively engaging women to be key leaders in conserving the environment by planting trees. Women and Girls are trained to be environmental change makers.
VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
To make tailoring productive, we work with schools and the community at large for our tailoring products.

Mentoring and empowering students with Entrepreneurship skills!

For Improved community livelihoods and reduced poverty levels among rural, under served and vulnerable to disaster communities, concepts of business and Entrepreneurship are trained to both our visiting school that look forward to the put theoretical learning into practice.

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TEAM MEMBER

Our team of staff have made it possible for the progress and changing lives of many. Dedicated and committed to their work and enabling a friendly environment for Trainees and community.

MUSOKI SOLANGE

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATOR

BALUKU JAMES

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

MATSITSI YONAH

PROGRAMMES COORDINATOR

CLAUS OELLERKING

PATRON

BIIRA ASIA

TRAINER - TAILORING

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Contact Information

Here are our contacts, Mail and Physical/postal Address.

ADDRESS

Opposite Rwenzori College of Commerce
P.o Box 423,
Kasese Uganda

Email

info@rufi-uganda.org
rfiuganda@gmail.com

Telephone

+256 776 144 451
+256 704 118 553

Some of our Proud Partners Worldwide

Testimonies

I give thanks for the opportunity given to me from RuFI Uganda, i was tought and now being paid for the skills i learnt from here. May the almight God reward the work of RuFI
Biira Joviah
i had lost hope for life and was willing to do any work for as longer as i can get food. Thanks to RuFI for empowering me. I can earn my owm money and able to do things on my own.
Ithungu Juliet
I really appropriate RuFI for the skills and from day one after training life has changed. Though i have no my own machines, but at least i can look for work because i have the skill.
Biira Alice

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