Where we work
We are registered in Wakiso and Busia districts. One wraps around the capital, the other sits on the Kenyan border. They look different on a map and very alike at the kitchen table.
On the map
Wakiso is beside Kampala, near the northern shore of Lake Victoria. Busia is in the east, where the main road runs across the border into Kenya.
Map drawn from public-domain Natural Earth data. Pin positions are approximate district centres.
The two places
Central region
Wakiso is where Kampala spills over. The district wraps around the capital, takes in lakeside towns such as Entebbe, and keeps growing as farmland turns into plots, rented rooms and half-built houses.
For a young person it can feel as if opportunity is one taxi ride away and still out of reach. For a family the pressures are close to home: rent, school fees, the cost of getting anywhere.
Eastern region
Busia is one of the busiest crossing points between Uganda and Kenya. Traders, drivers, boda-boda riders and market women make a living from the movement of goods across the line.
It is lively and it is precarious: income that comes and goes, young people drawn into informal work early, women running stalls with nothing saved behind them.
What they share
Look closely and the two districts share more than they differ. That is why one set of focus areas serves both.
Households and small businesses run on women’s work, yet women often have little say over the money.
There is no shortage of energy or ambition. What is short is a fair way in to training and work.
One illness, one failed harvest or one missed term can undo a year’s progress.
Group leaders, teachers, volunteers and neighbours do it every day. That is where we begin.
Not in these districts?
Our programmes are based in Wakiso and Busia, but NGO Support is open to small non-profits across Uganda, and we are glad to hear from partners further afield.
Community leaders, teachers and neighbours see what we can’t. If you would like to share what you see, we would like to listen.