Nyendo, Masaka City, Uganda +256 705 771149 info@upcountryafrica.org
We provide literacy, vocational skills, and life skills development for children, youth, and women in rural areas.
- Basic literacy classes
- Vocational skills (sewing, crafting, agriculture) and Life skills
- Decision making, self-awareness, communication
We focus on preventing sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents in secondary schools and among school dropouts.
- Encouraging STI testing and early treatment
- Family planning education
- Menstrual health & hygiene management (including reusable sanitary pad training)
We support economic empowerment by training school dropouts and vulnerable community members to earn income through skills such as:
-Making reusable sanitary pads for commercial use and survival purposes
- Craft production such as basket making