We were established after ‘olwekobhano’, a community reflection held on a hot Saturday on 7th August 2010 and attended by 67 people from Kabukye village.
The olwekobhano painted a gloomy picture of loss of hope, blighting poverty, and neglect and abuse of children the village was enduring.
Kabukye Trust got its name from the village where the olwekobhano was held.
Found in Kamuli district, in Uganda, Kabukye is also where our founder Allan Kiwanuka grew up. Kabukye translates from Lusoga as “let it dawn”.
This was pertinent as the olwekobhano reflections demand a fresh start, just as new dawn as kabukye promises.
Children and young people who are playful, curious, and passionate learners.
Teachers who are truly engaging learners to think.
Women and girls who freely access ideas, rights, and choices.
Men and boys who have healthier attitudes towards women and girls and are providing for the strong foundations of wellbeing and opportunities for their children, girls and the disabled especially.
Children experiencing child sexual violence, exclusion from fully participating fully in society due to disabilities, poor learning outcomes and inadequate health outcomes due to the above factors.
Everything we do is focused on our five goals of:
Preventing patterns of abusive behaviour towards children.
Ensuring all children disabled especially assess education, training and mentoring of excellent quality.
Ensuring good health of the children and their families.
Celebrating and conserving local cultural and environmental heritage.
Transforming abilities of families of the children to develop more resilient livelihoods to help achieve the above goals.
We are guided by values of giving hope, service, avoiding waste, innovation, and honesty.
As much as we can, we try to prevent problems before they occur. It is cheaper.
We empathise with our customers. We take inspiration from the children and young people we serve to co-create solutions that surprise and deliver benefits to them.
We continuously test and refine products, services, and experiences to ensure we are effective.
Map a clear path to measurable results.
And always promote self-worth and esteem of the children, teachers and families participating in our work.
Our Vision
- Children and young people who are playful, curious and passionate learners;
- Teachers who are truly engaging learners to think;
- Women and girls who freely access ideas, rights and dignity;
- Men who provide robust foundations for wellbeing and opportunity for their families.
- Underserved communities are our passion. Trust our strength.
Our customers
- Children experiencing poor teaching and learning outcomes,
- Teachers experiencing low morale and access to well-designed professional development activities and resources to enable effective teaching,
- Children and families at risk of harm and abuse,
- Children excluded from participating fully in society due to disabilities and gendered social norms,
- Young people experiencing under and unemployment,
- Communities facing declining environment and cultural quality, and
- Children and families experiencing poor health outcomes as a result of the above factors.
What our customers value?
- Engaging and enjoyable learning processes
- Better learning outcomes
- Teachers value more secure livelihoods without debt and high-quality professional development
- Girls especially value having a voice, choice and bodily integrity to pursue aspirations.
- Children with disabilities value fuller participation in society
- Young people value having employable skills and employment opportunities.
- Families value good health and healthcare.
Our mission
- Ensuring healthy children and families.
- Addressing patterns of abuse against children.
- Enabling rural children to get good quality education and mentoring.
- Helping rural families undertake more economically productive activities.
- Promoting local cultural and environmental heritage and quality.
Our values
- Giving hope
- Service
- Avoiding waste
- Innovation
- Honesty
Our challenges
- Attracting and retaining competent staff and developing them as leaders within the Kabukye Trust
- Communicating more compellingly with our customers and supporters
- Developing viable models to scale up and sustain initiated work without continued reliance on donors.
- Tracking our results and using evidence to design more effective programs
Our strategy
Learning and teaching processes
- Develop, pilot and evaluate approaches that transform teaching and learning of Mathematics mastery approaches in primary schools
- Develop, pilot and evaluate approaches that transform teaching and learning of read/write and digital literacy to tackle misinformation and disinformation
- Develop co-curricular initiatives which reinforce play of quality and equality for children excluded or hindered from participating fully in play due to disability, social or cultural circumstances
Addressing patterns of abusive behavior
- Re-launch the child abuse prevention work
Health
- Creating a movement of change, encouraging families to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they treat and support disabled children
- Launching structured self-management education programs for diabetes, stroke and other cardiometabolic diseases
- Launching school eye health initiative
- Setting up a health unit for the above services with a laboratory and orthopedic workshop.
Strategic Levers
Well-articulated theories of change for each theme
High quality business plans for chargeable services
Movement Building
Ability to innovate using human-centred design
High-performing operations, systems and people
- Develop staff through continuous professional development.
- Use design thinking to develop highly innovative projects.
- Implement our research and metrics strategy.
- Digitize to ensure competent stewardship of every coin received in a donation.
Communicate better
- Streamline communication with the board, customers and donors.
- Re-fresh Kabukye Trust website
- Implement a new social media strategy
