Projects

The Parity Cafeteria

Rubirizi, Southwest Uganda

A project in Rubirizi District of southwestern Uganda, where vulnerable girls affected by gender-based-violence (GBV) are provided psycho-social support and empowerment by employment as servers in a cafeteria. They learn skilling and bring awareness to the community that they are loved and valued and as some are cast away from their families this provides a new community and eventual reintegration into their communities.

Support The Parity Cafeteria, a project in Rubirizi District of southwestern Uganda, where vulnerable girls affected by gender-based violence (GBV) are provided psycho-social support and empowerment by employment as servers in a cafeteria. They learn to skill and bring awareness to the community that they are loved and valued, and as some are cast away from their families, this provides a new community and eventual reintegration into their communities.

The Purple Ray Youth Skilling and Innovation Center

Rukungiri, Southwest Uganda

Partnering with The Purple Ray, OP is collaborating to help the build of a Youth Skilling and Innovation Center in Rukungiri, Southwest Uganda. The center provides a foundational space for creativity in community problem solving to address unemployment surmounting so much of the youth population.

Support Youth Innovation Center, a project in Rukungiri District of southwestern Uganda. “In Uganda, the youth account for the largest share of Uganda’s population, with 77% of the citizens aged below 25 years of age, with a vast majority of them unemployed. Both global and national reports show that the main cause of unemployment and underemployment among the youth is the chronic lack of hands on and innovative skills to creatively and innovatively utilize the resources around them to create practical solutions for their most pressing unemployment challenge. Therefore, our Youth skilling Program prioritizes skills that drive co-creation of innovative and appropriate low cost entrepreneurial solutions to solve the unemployment and poverty challenges common among young people in Uganda. … The youth acquire self-employment skills through guided entrepreneurship and small business management trainings, hands on innovative ICT, Film and ART, Fashion, design and multimedia trainings, metal work, woodwork and joinery, cookery and bakery practical training sessions.”

Agri-tourism Farm

Rubirizi, Southwest Uganda

We are supporting the build of an agri-tourism farm in Southwestern Uganda primarily to provide skilling opportunity for youth to learn and engage in improved agriculture and agribusiness techniques for improved and sustainable livelihoods.

Support Agri-tourism Farm, implemented in Uganda, southwest part of Rubirizi and Isingiro districts, with main objective of transforming youth and women live through demonstrating on operation of small agribusiness with main intention of transformation of their social economic lives through motive, innovation, and encourage agricultural research, using urban farming methods due to increasing population and decreasing land for farming with unpredicted weather conditions. Due to those factors there is need for the mind set change of the youth and women through agriculture.