Our Mission

To inspire communities, households and individuals with self-confidence and provide skills and knowledge to harness their resources for lasting change that is economically and environmentally sustainable in their lives.

 

Our Vision

Improved quality of life for all communities reached and their environment

 

Our Slogan

Transforming Livelihoods

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Kulika Uganda is a non-profit making organisation registered with the NGO- Board is a brainchild of Kulika UK which started in 1981. It was founded by Patricia Brenninkmeyer who had been a social worker in Uganda. She saw the need in post- Amin Uganda to give opportunities to bright students to study when much of the academic and institutional infrastructure of the country was non-functional. Patricia had special interest in children and their feeding, hence the start of agriculture to feed the children and educational scholarships, to empower them. Kulika Uganda has since gained reasonable autonomy, although the two organisations still share similar values. The initial program was provision of postgraduate scholarships, which was followed by implementation of community development projects mainly in the area of Ecological Organic Agriculture. The Community Development Program has since expanded through training communities in sustainable livelihoods, enabling them to provide for themselves through acquisition of skills and knowledge to improve food and income security and global sustainable development.

 

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Our Core Values

Integrity

Probity in financial management, accountability and honesty in dealings with all stakeholders, rootedness in the values.

Commitment

Hard work, professionalism, effectiveness.

Team Work

Working and acting together in the interest.

Respect

Appreciative of diversity in communities & environment.

Learning

Understanding that the context demands continual change, reflection, development, and adaptation

Program Intervention

Kulika’s interventions  include capacity building of beneficiaries through training in EOA with a component of environmental conservation, gender and farmer to farmer extension, micro credit provision, provision of scholarships in higher institutions of learning. Kulika builds the capacity of farmers in marketing skills and also links them to both local and export markets.The target beneficiaries are drawn from Kulika program intervention focuses on the; farming community, hospital community, school community, refugee community and prisons community. We believe that the EOA message is relevant to all the communities for improvement of livelihoods.

Content Scope:

The major areas of focus for Kulika Uganda is promoting EOA training, strengthening Farmer to Farmer extension, creating and facilitating market linkages, crop & animal product processing, value addition of the targeted enterprises, administration of scholarships, vocational skills training and education programs focusing on school gardens for learning and feeding of children.

Target Beneficiaries

The majority of these can be categorized as poor small holder subsistence farmers and students willing to contribute to EOA sector in Uganda. Most agricultural projects especially in fields that are considered a male domain, female farmers are targeted through strengthening women groups. Individuals and groups that have benefited from the Kulika Uganda interventions form an important network that Kulika derives her strength from through learning and collaborations to foster EOA principles and practices in the communities.