Annual Christmas Children Feeding Program At Saint Ann Foundation, our mission is to create a world where every child, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to thrive. Since our establishment, we have been at the forefront of community development, focusing on areas such as education, healthcare, nutrition, and child protection. I am reaching out [...]
Disability Inclusion One billion people (15 percent of the world’s population) experience some form of disability – a figure that is proportionally higher in developing countries. Persons with disabilities often experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as lower levels of employment, less education, poorer health, and higher poverty rates, and are more likely to fall into [...]
Climate Change Mitigation Climate change is impacting health in a myriad of ways, including death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heat waves, storms, and floods, the disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses and food, water, and vector-borne diseases, and mental health issues. Furthermore, climate change is undermining many of [...]
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Access to clean and safe water in hard-to-reach areas is a nightmare. To address this challenge, Saint Ann Foundation, with support from our development partners embarked on reducing water scarcity in the island area of Buyiga through the construction of boreholes in the different areas of the island, as well [...]
Child Protection and Rights We believe that children and young people can play a significant role as agents of transformation with the capability to engage in decision-making, in accordance with their evolving capacities and gradually increasing autonomy. When children and young people learn to communicate opinions, take responsibility and make decisions, they develop a sense [...]
Gender-Based Violence Prevention / Women Empowerment Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights violation, affecting around one in three women and girls around the world, while in some countries the prevalence is as high as one in two. Women and girls face forms of violence and discrimination in every society, including domestic [...]
Healthcare We aspire to serve healthy communities. To realize this, we focus our attention on promoting healthy lifestyles through promoting preventive and curative health services to vulnerable and needy populations – with special emphasis on the well-being of mothers and children. We work with stakeholders at national and local levels to ensure ease of access [...]
Food Security and Nutrition Ending hunger and malnutrition is among the greatest challenges humanity faces. As per the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, a person is considered “food secure” when they have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an [...]
Livelihood and Enterprise Development (LED) Women and girls in island areas of Uganda are marginalized because of their inability to access gainful employment, resources, and other factors of production, and generally, their inability to access opportunities for their forward progression. This, combined with traditional gender expectations such as childbearing and domestic duties has condemned them [...]
Education and Life Skills Providing quality education to children in marginalized communities is our flagship program. We work hard to ensure education is accessible to children ages 3-5 for Early Childhood Development (ECD), ages 6-12 at the Primary level, 13-18 years in High School, and above for vocational/college/University through sponsorship. Saint Ann Foundation runs two [...]
