About us

Village Concern Uganda fights this abject poverty and helps prevent violence through community-based development in Eastern Uganda. We believe that solutions to poverty are best realized when those affected by it drive change. Outsiders can help by mobilizing people, advising, networking, and providing resources. Ultimately, however, the community has the knowledge and the motivation necessary to solve problems.

Through sports programs, young women's empowerment, and community development. Village Concern Uganda promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation. We also work to improve basic healthcare, sanitation, and education. VCU saves lives, prevents ethnic and religious violence, and creates opportunities in a place that outsiders often cast away as hopeless.

Serving as a model for holistic, community-based urban development in eastern Uganda, VCU has helped grassroots initiatives develop youth-based programs in six other nations and dozens of communities in eastern Uganda. We envision a community where the poor have a voice in their futures and opportunities for healthy growth.