Pass-out Exams in Progress

Students of our first Enrollment today started there pass-out exams as a requirement for the award of certificate in tailoring. Eight students were able to do the exams for our very first Enrollment!

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CAREER GUIDANCE

Despite the government’s interventions to promote education especially in construction of classrooms, timely payment of teachers, equipping laboratories and libraries and paying school fees (USE), little has been done on career choice rendering efforts of both parents and government fruitless.

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Integrity Ambassadors

The purpose of the Clubs is to develop, nurture and empower proactive ambassadors of integrity and good governance through advocacy, knowledge sharing and learning.

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Training of TOTs

RUFI-Uganda staff trainer during a training session for the TOT training at Office premises. Five Women have been trained to further empower their communities.

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RuFi-Uganda

We are the Voice of the Rural Community!

Since 2011 Rural Focus Initiative - Uganda (RuFi-U) has been operating in Uganda, Africa under the direction and mentor ship of Schweriners Claus Oellerking. The project engages the community against the marriage of women in childhood and adolescence, runs Active HIV-prevention and wants to allow women access to vocational training and thus the chance for a self-determined life. WHAT THE WHOLE THING? Our common goal is to improve the education of young women. In Uganda, girls are often only one or two years in the school. Many of you learn neither read nor write. They do not have a professional perspective. Only the dependence on the husband remains most. To allow a participation in the labour market women learn sewing clothing and basket weaving in small groups.

MISSION:

Empowering rural communities in fighting poverty, disease and defending the rights of young people through information accessibility and training services provision.

VISION:

A health, empowered and self sustaining community aware of its rights and defend those of children for immediate and long term development.

Our Theory of Change

Illiteracy and Poverty is more than a lack of material wealth. It is rooted in injustices-unequal social and political relationships, both locally and at the global level. Poverty is exacerbated by gender based violence and discrimination, exclusion in all forms, conflicts, corruption, poor service delivery and bad governance for the most vulnerable persons such as the children, the poor/illiterate women, the disabled and minorities groups. At RuFI-Uganda, we therefore believe that direct poverty alleviation goes hand in hand with empowering communities in counter engaging in activities and programmes aided at acting against the vice. This requires the poor and leaders to change attitudes, beliefs, practices, policies and decision making processes. Hence, we build national and global partnerships and deliberately empower and support the vulnerable to discover their strength individually sustain them to live a desired life with a sense of belonging.

HELP GIRLS KEEP IN SCHOOL AND END CHILD MARRIAGE TODAY!

Support girls and keeping them in school in a key factor to ending child marriage for a transformed society. We Empower and Support our communities the value of girl child Education!

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Thematic Areas

Vocational Skills & Entrepreneurship training;
For Improved community livelihoods and reduced poverty levels among young mothers & fathers and other vulnerable populations through provision of vocational & Entrepreneurship trainings, establishment of a well equipped and organized training centre for sustained and strengthened economic transformation and development.READ MORE
Promoting Education
Improved and provide information to teachers, parents and children on the benefits of educating children and its general role in community development through career guidance in schools, radio talk shows and in community meetings and gatheringsREAD MORE
Children Protection & Human Rights
Increasing community participation and involvement to promoting human rights awareness and defend children rights such as rights to education services, health, food, and increase access to quality welfare of both children and adolescents, particularly those affected by domestic violence, early child marriage, HIV/AIDs and other community conflicts. RUFI – (U) provides a platform for engagement of government law enforcement departments such as Police, local judiciary courts through community sensitization, reporting children abuse cases such as; defilement, child lobour, rape in rural communities for investigation and action.READ MORE
Environmental Conservation
Ensure Access to Clean Energy Products and creating a conducive Environmental for Natural resources to thrive. Projects Like Plastic Cycling, Fish Farming, Tree planting and production of Improved cook stoves and Training community in making household permanent energy saving cook stoves.
Health
RUFI – (U) is actively involved in enhancing health programs in the Communities by Creating awareness and advocacy in the communities to take lead in accessing health services during the, HIV/AIDs training and awareness creation in the communities through community meetings and radio talk shows. READ MORE

Featured Opinions

An enhanced voice against HIV/AIDs Infection” (Evain)

Kasese municipality is a cosmopolitan community with different tribes who share different values, culture and beliefs. This explains the high population pressure in the area. The municipality consists of three divisions among them being Nyamwamba division our centre of focus; this is one of the highly populated divisions, with “high class” slum characters such as high crime rates, prostitution, and drug abuse.

Empowering a Young Mother for a Health Child

Buhuhira sub-county is one of the great Kyabarungira sub-counties in the eastern parts of Kasese district. The great Kyabarungira is regarded as the most backward parts of Kasese in terms of education and participation in the social, political activities.

A clean town for a clean Environment

Its our choice to determine the kind of environment we would like to live in. For a health life, a healthy environment is mandatory! in our monthly "A clean town for a clean Environment" campaign.....

Perseverance, tolerance and endurance are key success! By: Mr.Obed Kambasu

Have you ever heard of Kitholhu Secondary School? Is it your dream school? I would imagine it is not. Kitholhu Secondary School is a rural government school somewhere in the mountains of Kitholhu sub-county, Kasese district...

OUR SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

With qualified, competent and experienced team of staff we deliver to our partners, supporters, well wishers and donors expectation.

BALUKU JAMES

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

CLAUS OELLERKING

PATRON

Nakalanzi Zaamula

Chairperso Board of Trustees

MATSITSI YONAH

PROGRAMMES DIRECTOR

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Self help Skills for women economic independence

Through Vocational skills training, over 100 women have been equipped with skills in basket weaving and bead knitting across the district of Kasese and Bukedea District in eastern Uganda in partnership with Action for Development of Local Communities (ADOL). Girls out of school, Young mothers and single mothers have benefitedRead More

Support Girls Keep in school to End Child Marriage today!

Ending Child Marriage in our communities start with individual responsibilities! Parents, teachers, girls themselves play fundamental roles to have girls keep and complete School. Rural Focus Initiative Uganda with its project Promoting Education Sustainability for Adolescent Girls(PESA) brings together all efforts from different actors to making a zero child marriageRead More

At 17years, she already has two children!

Nyamwamba division is one of the Divisions that comprise Kasese Municipality, Kasese District. It is densely populated with slum characters and all sorts of behaviors. The division is made up of over 20 cells but mere visits to only two cells; the story of young mothers is unbelievable! Kabugho RosemaryRead More

OUR PARTNERS

In our daily interventions, our partners, supporters and well wishers play a very big role in realizing success of our work.

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ADDRESS

Maliseri Rd, Plot 234, Kasese Municipality Opposite Rwenzori College of Commerce Kasese-Uganda

Email

info@rufi-uganda.org

Tel:

+256 754 875 521 +256 704 118 553

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