Youth and Women Engaged for Development /YWED Organization

ABOUT US :

Youth and Women Engaged for Development as its acronym YWED Organization,was founded on the 9^th October,2019and it is a Community Based and Youth Led Organization located in KYAKA II Refugee settlement, Kyegegwa District, Uganda. YWED is working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations such as: women, girls, young boys, child-mothers, Orphans and GBV survivors. YWED empowers these group of people with basic life skills which enable them to be self-reliant and resilient for sustainable development.

ACTIVITIES :

• 1. EDUCATION: We carry out informal education whereby we teach youth and Women the vocational training skills for job creation and hunger reduction
• 2. GENDER EQUALITY: we ensure Equality and Equity for both women and men for the access of the different opportunities and equal treatment; we also encourage the decision making through women’s empowerment for positive change.
• 3.WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE: this thematic area is the main and the engine of our current project activities, where we are planning to expand our project of making reusable sanitary pads to make a significant impact within our community while training them, distributing pads, making awareness campaigns on hygiene and sanitation etc.
• 4.LIVEHOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: here we are Involving the community members in many activities of farming, planting trees, waste management campaigns, Carpentry activities, tailoring, financial literacy and language for adults training.
• more activities :- Tailoring – Carpentry – Painting – Farming (poultry keeping & Vegetables Growing – Reusable sanitary Pads making – Language training for Adults and children.(French, English, and Swahili)

CHALLENGES:

• – lack of Capacity building in ; a. Leadership skills b. Digital systems etc
• – Lack of enough funds
• – lack of digital tools

NEEDS:

• – Enough funds, which will help us to purchase tools,
• – Industrial Sewing machines
• – Manual sewing machines
• – Materials for making reusable sanitary Pads and adults diapers.
• – computers( desk top, laptops – 1 printer and 1 canon camera.
• – Capacity Building
• – Poultry feeds, housing, light, and chicks
• – Land to grow our vegetables

CONTACTS:

• ZONE :SWESWE
• VILLAGE :KITONZI
• Email:ywed163@gmail.com gracegasiga@gmail.com
• Telephone:+256778728379
• Focal Person’s Name : Grace Gasiga