URUDO-UGANDA CONSTITUTION

URUDO-UGANDA CONSTITUTION

( 2009)

PHYSICAL ADDRESS:

Kyabuza  Road, Kooki ward C, Lyantonde Town Council, Kabula County, Lyantonde District, Uganda – East Africa.

VISION:         An ecologically sustainable environment offering good living conditions for the communities.

MISSION:       To strengthen community capacity to eradicate poverty through education, vocational skills development and dissemination of environmentally sound practices.

MOTTO:         Safe environment Saves life.

BACKGROUND

Urban – Rural Development Organization Uganda (URUDO -Uganda) is community Based Organization (CBO) with no religious or political affiliation founded in 2009 and later registered in the year 2010 with Lyantonde district local government in response to the ever increasing urban – rural disparities in development. URUDO-Uganda is a non – profit organization.

Thus, URUDO –Uganda was initiated to support the government of Uganda and the private sector in bridging the gap between the urban and rural communities to reduce poverty, HIV/AIDS, urban pollutants, poor garbage disposal, through establishing collaborative – demand driven integrated development programmes in sustainable rural agriculture, education of the girl child, empowerment of out of school youth with with vocational skills and equitable resource distribution. As a community based organization, we concentrate our resource, energies and focus our work towards poverty reduction through livelihood improvement, environment and education, HIV & AIDS, Rights and advocacy.

URUDO-Uganda is currently operating in the Districts of Lyantonde and Mbarara.

OBJECTIVES:

• To empower the vulnerable young girls through education in order to improve their livelihoods.
• To educate the community on sanitation related issues and preventive measures on HIV/AIDS, malaria and other common diseases.
• To empower the orphans, widows and widowers to start income generating projects.
• To mobilize rural communities to plant trees so as to create a sink tank for urban pollutants.
• To collaborate with the government and others stake holders to improve the conditions of rural communities to increase house hold incomes.
• To eradicate poverty through youth, women and orphan mobilization towards job creating activities.
• To mobilize the communities to realize the importance and use of clean water in their families and assisting them to construct easy and rain water harvesting tanks.
• To mobilize the communities to realize the importance and use of clean energy sources in their families