Welcome to EARN-Uganda!

Empower Women, Youth and Children (EARN) Project is an indigenous Charity Community Based Organization (CBO) registered in 2013 to provide support in Education, Livelihoods, food security and Agriculture (empowering rural and vulnerable women groups, youths and PWDs including child headed families) learn Nutrition, HIV/AIDS stings, Environment protection, Hygiene and Sanitation training, Gender and Human rights advocacy. The organization is interdenominational CBO seeking to develop rural communities regardless of their race, ideology or religion. EARN has 5 (Three) Board of Directors (BOD) appointed by the founder to direct and promote the vision of the organization.

Our Current Projects Are: Building Permanent Safe Homes For Children Born On The Streets And In Brothels As Well As A Safe Home/ School For Tribal Orphans. We Are Also Committed To Raise Individual Sponsorships For vulnerable Women, vulnerable person with Disabilities PWDs, vulnerable youths (school dropout) vulnerable Children, And Staff In "Long-Term Care" Children's Homes In Southern Asia.  We Are Beginning To Train Foster And Adoptive Parents In What It Means To Foster And Adopt And Why It Matters. We Long To Build A Community Of Love, Hope, And Spiritual Support For Those In Need, Whether It Be Spiritual And Trauma Counseling Or Teaching Vocational Skills In Order To See Each Child Fulfill The Call Of God On Their Lives.

To Empower vulnerable Women, Youth and Children with income generating activities, vocational skills, Discipling  the community churches and increase primary production of high value crops including nutrition food by 2030.

EARN Uganda exists to provide support in Climate changes and climate threats awareness’ training, ,Environment protection, Hygiene and Sanitation training (WASH), Vocational skills, Livelihoods, Livelihood and Agriculture empowering rural-vulnerable young women groups (new parenting mothers), child mothers headed family, youth adolescence with reproductive advocacy and vulnerable youths led into food Nutrition, HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons including vulnerable mothers, gender based and child rights advocacy through good, preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and faithful managerial practices to the rural communities of  Uganda.

EARN -Uganda is an indigenous Charity CBO. It started as a community group working on voluntary basis providing support in Education, Agriculture (empowering rural- vulnerable women groups, child headed families and vulnerable youths), Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, Environment, Hygiene and Sanitation training, Gender and Human rights advocacy. The organization started in Lira district which went through prolonged history of social-economic problems ranging from cattle rustling famine, diseases, domestic violence, human rights abuse, little or no access to uncontaminated water and the climax of the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA) insurgency that led to the population displacement to Internally Displaced Peoples Camps (IDPCs). This led to destruction of social services, inadequate food supplies and eminent abject poverty among the population and making the local communities unable to have enough food and safe water, proper hygiene and sanitation, poor education especially girl child, abuse of human rights and most of them were left HIV/AIDS positive. EARN UGANDA is working in Lira west city division.

To help the vulnerable communities afford and meet basic requirements in life including but not limited to improved income, shelter, medication, food, and education for the children. The goal of the organization is to improve on inadequate or no access to safe water, education, information on better agricultural farming practices and HIV/AIDS support services.

Project Goal:-To help the vulnerable communities afford and meet basic requirements in life including but not limited to improved income, Water, shelter, Medication, food, and education of the vulnerable people.

Strategic objective 3: Improve in green production of trees, agro inputs, agro-machinery, food security, food nutrition.

Overall outcome: Develop training workshops, Radio talk shows and communities meeting on Agro forestry farmer’s skills projects and distribution of trees seedling, seedling nursery beds activities, micro-farming, land protection and waste managements, and vocational skills, rural group savings, IGAs, crafts skills, loan and credit activities.

Strategic objective 4: Enhancing Gender base services, child protection awareness and Human dignity, land protection and Gender roles.     

Overall outcome: targeting communities empowered in women rights especially widows, child mothers, singles mothers, street kids, orphans children and person with Disabilities.

EARN started in 2013 and works in collaboration with governments, International and national partners to achieve the above objectives.

OUR ADVOCACY

This Project is a non-governmental organization.

The institution works to rescue and restore, Homeless people, person with Disabilities, child teenagers/Mother, children at risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking through a family atmosphere of love and encouragement.  The view to the long term is to avoid evil (poverty, abuse, hopelessness etc.) and promote comprehensive and holistic development of each child through spiritual, physical, intellectual and social care.

The areas of emphasis:

1)    Serving

Earn Uganda aims to prevent sexual trafficking of children by rescuing and restoring them from the streets and brothel areas, .

2)    Training

All of school dropouts girls, Disable children in Earn Uganda project are in private, English speaking schools because “we believe in the value of education (both formal and informal) to help transform lives and give a better hope for the future."

“We believe that a good education can give confidence and the skills necessary to stop the cycle of poverty and ignorance that occurs in these 'street' families."

3)    Making Disciples

The Earn Uganda Project attend ongoing courses and camps to help each vulnerable child grow spiritually in their own pursuit of God.

• Professionalism
• Transparency
• Integrity
• Accountability

The following guiding principles are key to the success of the strategy:

1. Addressing the Root Causes of Poverty: Earn Uganda will continue to focus on empowerment of individuals and households. Programming will be based on addressing structural constraints and not in form of providing hand-outs that do not lead to sustainability. Household vulnerability assessment in the project areas will be conducted so that appropriate strategies are adopted.

2. External Engagement and Partnerships: The external engagement and partnerships will be for both resource acquisition and program delivery. It will include targeted proactive and reactive program resource acquisition (grants & GIK including food). Public and Private Partnerships including partnering with the Church and other faith groups will also be a key aspect.

3. Building Household Resilience: We recognize that greater impact on the wellbeing of children can be achieved when the focus is on building household resilience that includes economic empowerment. Organizing farmers into groups for increased production, better value addition and improved access to markets is foundational to an agribusiness society like Uganda.

4. Advocacy for sustainability: Local level advocacy, linked to national and global policy processes will lead to better governance and social accountability for improved service delivery as well as increased demand and utilization of social services.

5. Child and Youth Participation: Uganda has one of the fastest growing youth population in the World and therefore effective age appropriate child and youth participation will be pivotal in achieving peace and protection.

6. Evidence Building and Learning: This will focus on building solid evidenced programming to improve effectiveness, and also leverage for advocacy to enhance credibility in Uganda’s development sector. An automated M&E system will be developed for use by all programs.

7. Streamlined Business Processes: This will require simplified and dependable business processes that promote organizational effectiveness and efficiency, like procurement, financial and P&C management systems. 

1.  Earn Uganda as mobilized and train 71 groups in Northern Uganda into vocational skills, income generating activities skills, livelihoods, Village loan saving groups forms 2013-2020.
2. Genders based violence groups are form and train in child protection, human rights, Gender equality and equity including persons with Disabilities (PWDS) from 2015-2019.
3. Three thousands churches are train and strengthen with Discipleship, Livelihoods and zero violence strategies.
4.  Earn Uganda managed to prepared WASH manual for Health facilities management ageist COVID 19, Waste management and schools teachers and students facilities, this was done 2020.
5. Earn Uganda as train Doctors, Nurses, school teachers and community leaders on COVID and WASH at critical time, the test kits was done in Kampala and Apac sponsored by GIZ Uganda in 2020.