Kigezi Women In Development (KWID)

About us

Kigezi Women In Development (KWID) (formerly Kabale Women in Development) is a women-led organisation operating in the Kigezi sub-region of Uganda and was established in 1996 to reach out to vulnerable people in the former Kabale district which was split to create two more districts; Rubanda and Rukiga.

Mission Statement
Empowering women and other vulnerable persons to address hindrances to their advancement through advocacy, networking and capacity building

Objectives:
• To equip community members with social-economic and political related knowledge, values, skills and practices which will empower them to transform themselves and their communities
• To economically empower vulnerable persons to enable them provide for their basic needs and be able to engage effectively in social-economic and political affairs.
• Increased access to service delivery in the area of girl child education and maternal health
• To improve the quality of children in Rukiga County.
• Empower community members to prevent gender based violence
• To increase awareness and activism of community members to enhance their capacity to effectively engage with duty bearers for social accountability and increased responsiveness
• To prevent HIV transmission through community sensitization and referral
• Expanded space for learning and sharing information and resources with like minded institutions and persons
• Strengthened capacity of the organization to effectively and efficiently deliver on organizational mandate.

Our work
KWID implements community mobilisation and empowerment projects aimed at building the capacity of vulnerable persons to participate in decision making processes. Their main areas of work include women and girls’ economic empowerment, child wellbeing, gender based violence, and HIV prevention.
KWID touches peoples lives through three arms; advocacy, networking and capacity of vulnerable persons, KWID started giving weekly life skills sessions to orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). KWID also established a community library in 2008 to reach out to people with information.
Through the arm of networking KWID partnered with CLICK Rukiga that supported us to construct a temporary structure for the community library and temporary shelter where OVC life skills trainings and other KWID meetings were held. Due to roadworks, the space for the shelter kept shrinking and the semi-permanent structure housing the library was in a bad shape.
In 2015 CLICK Rukiga supported KWID to purchase land and in 2017 the CLICK Rukiga team raised funds to construct a structure to accommodate KWID operations including OVC life skills sessions and dialogue meetings. With this support, KWID has been able to construct a permanent structure and a pit latrine which has enabled there to be a shift of operations from a dilapidated building to a habitable space.

Florence Tumuheirwe is the Executive Director of Kigesi Women in Development (KWID).

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