Nyakasanga Development Community Foundation (NYAKU)
Water Sanitation & Hygiene
NYAKU responds to this by supporting the communities through construction of wells, water springs, extension of taps, installation of rain water harvesting tanks, construction of latrines or toilets and sensitization on proper hygiene and sanitation.
Health Programme
To help the school going girls and selected women in the community with menstrual-pads to help them in menstrual complications who have been using unhealthy and non recommendable materials like poylthene-papers.
Environmental Management
enhancing strategies of improving and protecting the environment and living in harmony through sustainable manner it includes components of ; environment conflict resolution and management, disaster management, advocacy and collaborative environmental management.
Micro Revolving loan fund
NYAKU has a micro business revolving fund scheme from which the rural communities especially the women acquire start up capital for their agricultural income generating projects. The loans are provided in groups although each member in the group gets it as an individual.
Education support of Vulnerable & Orphan Children
The rebels called Allied Democratic force (ADF) and NALU came in Kasese in 1996 and killed many people who left behind many children as orphan. This resulted in to illiterate because those children had no support in terms of fees payment.
Food security & Nutrition
NYAKU’s food security program supports the targeted rural communities with various agronomic training practices, improved cereal and legume seeds, animals, high value crops like green vegetables to ensure high yields for increased household food and nutrition security.
ABOUT NYAKU
Nyakasanga Community Development Foundation (NYAKU) is a community-based organization working in Kasese District, which was formed with a prime focus of enhancing peaceful coexistence and livelihoods among the communities to have their right to development.
MISSION:
To provide the skills and knowledge to the under privileged strata of the community so that they can recognize and use the resource s around them for holistic empowerment
VISION:
A healthy and productive community that lives in conducive environment.
GOAL
Empowering people to become self-reliant/dependent community, living quality and dignified lives in peaceful co-existence.
Our Volunteers
The organization focuses its program areas in all sub-counties of Kasese district and was formed with a prime focus of enhancing peaceful coexistence and livelihoods among the communities to have their right to development. Her formation was triggered by the growing appreciation that there has been considerably limited participation and support to the rural communities in development activities towards the implementation of millennium goals.