Innovative Youth with Action Uganda

Innovative Youth with Action Uganda (IYAU) is a non-profit organization that promotes empowerment of poor, marginalized and vulnerable people for sustainable change through facilitating access to skills development, women empowerment, human rights, livelihoods and agriculture

We believe sustainable development and transformation are essential to ensuring the creation of well-founded initiatives that empower poor, marginalized and vulnerable people to change their lives and communities. We work to empower them with the tools and knowledge they need that will allow them to overcome the many challenges they face and focus on creating innovative sustainable business initiatives. It is such well-founded initiatives that create jobs and, in turn, ensure a lasting more prosperous society. As the widely-repeated adage has taught us, IYAU will help provide the hook, or access to it, that then empowers and allows the people to fish for themselves.

Innovative Youth with Action Uganda (IYAU) is a non-profit organization that promotes empowerment of poor, marginalized and vulnerable people for sustainable change through facilitating access to skills development, entreprenuership, environmental sustainability, income generation and job creation, Education, HIV/AIDS services, Vulnerable children care and support services, Human rights advocacy, Basic Health care Services, Peace Building, Zero tolerance to Gender Based violence, and sustainable agricultural practices.We have built experience in leadership and entrepreneurship, HIV/AIDs services, Vulnerable children Care and support, Entreprenuership and Skills development, Environment and climate change, human rights advocacy, Enterprise development, women empowerment, sustainable agriculture, innovative approaches to women and youth participation, thus creating opportunities for alternative sources of livelihood, HIV free generation, Job creation and entrepreneurship development, in order to contribute to social transformation in Uganda

IYAU was founded on the premise that it is critical to elevate poor, marginalized and vulnerable people’s needs and ambitions to take responsibility for their communities. All of the organisation’s work aims to contribute to a society that supports and embraces the self-assurance of the youth and their communities.

The Direct beneficiaries of IYAU Services and products are: Vulnerable Children, People Living with HIV/AIDS, Youth, female sex workers, Ex-prisoners and inmates, Persons with Disabilities, Women and Girls, Ex-prisoners, inmates, Child marriage survivors, Child headed families, HIV + Youth and Children, and widows. IYAU works with churches, human rights activists and defenders, schools, peer educators, community based groups, prisons, Police, Local leaders, health facilities, Community Volunteers and Village health teams.

VISION
Transformation and sustainable growth amongst poor, marginalized and vulnerable people

MISSION
To be a Local NGO that is committed to accessing opportunities to better the lives of the most poor, marginalised and vulnerable people

GOAL
To engage the communities in developing an empowered and socio-economic society

Aims and Objectives
• Improve the health of vulnerable communities by addressing issues that undermine their good health such as access to health services, counselling services, safe water, sanitation and management of preventable and treatable diseases.
• To promote formal education, vocational training, life skills and human rights awareness to vulnerable communities to help them cope with life challenges.
• To increase household incomes among vulnerable communities through programmes that ensure self-reliance and sustainability.

*Please note that we do not work with institutionalized children.