Poverty Eradication Mission Uganda (PEM-Uganda)

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Poverty Eradication Mission Uganda (PEM-Uganda) is a woman and girl child initiative which began as a dream by a young man at the age of 19 in 2012. Having been raised up by his grandmother in a small village called Misoli in Mayuge district Uganda who took him up at the age of 3 years after his mother left him., Kiirya Brian Waiswa developed a strong attachment to Women (the Mothers of a Nation). It’s out of this simple desire that gave birth to PEMU in 2014 on a core goal of empowering Women and Girls affected by poverty. PEMU was later registered as a non-government organization
PEMU was founded in 2014 and officially registered in 2018 as an NGO. PEMU has rooted its work in the district of Mayuge, Jinja, Kamuli, Bugiri and Iganga. From access to Safe Clean Water to Safe Motherhood plus Maternal Health, from Access to quality Education to empowering the youths to become more self reliant, from working with available local resource to create wealth to sexual reproductive health and rights.

Vision: A Uganda with healthy and empowered women and girls accessing quality and equitable health and care services at the same time seeing that their rights are respected in Uganda.

Mission: To contribute towards raising the level, quality and equity of health and care services and advocate for the women and girls in Uganda through increasing access, advocacy, empowerment and working with other development actors

Objectives:
• To work with women and teenage mothers and communities experiencing poverty to empower them to address poverty
• To work with organisations to build a strong anti-poverty network in Uganda.
• To support the development of policies which promote social justice and combat poverty
• To raise awareness about poverty and encourage debate about solutions.

Services:
PEMU seeks to fight poverty and influence policies at all level that have an impact on poverty and can create the conditions for a more socially just Uganda.
We carry out this work through a range of activities:
• Campaigns
• Lobbying
• Networking
• Project work
• Awareness raising and
• Training

Projects:
Projects are a key way for PEMU to develop new ideas, demonstrate new approaches to poverty issues, and to actively involve our members and others in the development of the network.All of the projects that we are involved in, whether leading or supporting, will contribute to helping us deliver on the key priorities in our strategic plan. If you have a project idea you would like us to be involved in then please get in touch.

Brian Kiirya Waiswa is the Founder and Executive Director of Poverty Eradication Mission Uganda (PEM-Uganda).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff and establish new contacts in the field of our work.