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 and sustainable community based driven development initiatives. It is such well-founded initiatives that create jobs, improve people’s livelihoods, 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 community based, non-discriminatory, non-profit organization committed to providing support for the most vulnerable groups in society and promotes empowerment of poor, marginalized and vulnerable people for sustainable change. We place an emphasis on education and training, health and sanitation, skills development and entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, human rights and social justice, sustainable agricultural practices.
The Direct beneficiaries of IYAU Services and products are: Orphans and 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, local governments, prisons, Police, Local leaders, health facilities, Community Volunteers and Community health extension worker.
Innovative Youth with Action Uganda was established and registered under laws of Uganda in 2015 as a community based organization in order to establish and support sustainable community based driven development initiatives which promote active community participation in their own development and are community initiated and driven, that then empowers and allows communities own their initiatives and sustain them. The organization operates in the Eastern and Northern part of Uganda.
The organization aims to engage the communities in developing an empowered and socio-economic society by creating sustainable community based development initiatives.
