Who we are
KOMUGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE (KCI) is a Community-Based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) dedicated to the development, empowerment, and direct support of vulnerable community members, particularly women and children.
KCI began its operations informally in 2017 as a relief effort, distributing essential supplies in Komuge village. Recognizing the escalating needs, a Community-Based Organization was formally registered in 2018 to serve Komuge Sub-County, Bukedea District.
In 2022, the organization expanded its reach to include the districts of Kumi, Ngora, and Serere, all facing similar challenges in Eastern Uganda. This expansion led to KCI’s transition into a fully-fledged NGO (MIA/NB/2022/09/1786), with a primary focus on improving the lives of those in hard-to-reach areas. Our target populations include widows, single mothers, child mothers, women and girls living with HIV/AIDS, children, and out-of-school youth.
We achieve this through programs in WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Health, Education (via infrastructure development), and Sustainable Livelihoods.
Our Vision
To empower rural communities through improved access to WASH, education, health services, and livelihood opportunities, fostering sustainable development and community resilience.
Our Mission
To enhance the well-being of women and communities in rural districts by promoting equitable access to quality water, sanitation, education, health services, and livelihood programs, while ensuring sustainable development and community ownership.
Our Target Groups
We target vulnerable people, especially widows, single mothers, child mothers, women and girls living with HIV/AIDS, children, and out-of-school young people.
Our Goal
To transform the lives of underprivileged young girls, women, and youths in the communities by creating an enabling environment and offering them the opportunity to relive missed opportunities.
OBJECTIVES
To realize the above vision, mission, and goal, the following objectives have to be undertaken:
- Promoting WASH services in schools and communities through distribution of sanitary towels, training on making of reusable sanitary towels, health and hygiene awareness, rehabilitation and construction of water sources, latrines, medical camps, etc.
- Education support is provided through the provision of school fees and scholastic materials for vulnerable children, both at the primary and secondary levels, in our operational areas.
- Health promotions through HIV awareness and prevention, medical camps, SRH, Maternal & Child Health Care, distribution of mosquito nets, provision of medical supplies, etc.
- To organize vulnerable youth and women under Village Savings and Loans Association groups to enable them have access to affordable startup capital
- Training out-of-school (vulnerable children, school drop-outs) aged 15 and above in vocational training and life skills such as hair styling, tailoring, carpentry, welding, bricklaying, etc.
- To provide handouts and all necessary support to the well-being and sustainability of vulnerable women (widows, HIV-infected, single mothers, elderly, etc.) in the community
- To support peasant farmers with innovative farming practices and agricultural value-adding skills to enhance their incomes and livelihoods.
- Resettlement and re-integration of out-of-school youth and vulnerable children within the communities or their families before and after training.
- To reduce unemployment among young people that of productive age 18-35 through job creation, talent development, skills development, career guidance & career workshops to enable them become competitive and fit in the society.
- Coordinating and supporting campaigns and actions on child and youths’ rights both at National and community levels.
- Active research and surveys on specific issues affecting the out-of-school youth and children
- Empowering the girl-child and women youth groups in business management skills.
- To conduct social research in education, sexual reproductive health care, gender related issues, and socio-economic development, and publication on children/youth experiences.
- To reach out to vulnerable children and out-of-school youth in their ca-coons, and through counselling sessions, family tracing and community sensitization.
- Community mobilisation and the training on child and youth related issues as stipulated in UN convention on the rights of the child and the Ugandan youth policy