Be Part of our Initiatives
SAPE Foundation runs high-impact, community-rooted campaigns that transform the lives of Uganda’s most vulnerable populations. Each campaign is tailored to address a specific poverty-related challenge while inviting donors, volunteers, corporate partners, and change-makers to be part of the solution.
Mother Rise Fund Initiative
“Helping Mothers Boost Their Micro-Businesses for Self-Sustenance”
A Community-Driven Initiative.
Across Uganda, thousands of single mothers—widowed, divorced, or abandoned—struggle to raise children on less than $50 in working capital. Many run small food stalls or micro-businesses, but poverty keeps them from growing, providing, and breaking free.
The Mother Rise Fund Initiative is SAPE Foundation’s commitment to lifting these women by providing small seed funds, financial literacy, and community savings support. With just $30–$50, a mother can inject new life into her business, feed her children, and join a Village Savings & Loan Association (VSLA) for long-term resilience.
Be a part of this ripple of hope. Support a mother today, and you’re not only sustaining her family—you’re empowering an entire community. When mothers rise, generations thrive.
Skill2Earn Initiative
“Turning Hands-On Skills into Livelihoods for Uganda’s Youth”
Uganda is one of the youngest nations in the world, yet millions of young people remain unemployed, under-skilled, and trapped in cycles of poverty. Many come from marginalized communities where opportunities are scarce, leaving their talents untapped and their futures uncertain.
The Skill2Earn Initiative is SAPE Foundation’s response—equipping vulnerable youth with practical, market-ready skills such as liquid soap making, candle production, confectionery, and eco-friendly briquette making. We don’t just train—we empower youth with seed support and mentorship to turn these skills into small businesses, helping them earn an income, support their families, and build dignified lives.
Join us. With your support, we can give Uganda’s youth the tools to break free from unemployment and poverty, one skill at a time. When youth earn, communities thrive
Bridge2School Program
“Connecting Vulnerable Children to Classrooms of Hope”
In Uganda, thousands of children drop out of school every year—not because they lack talent, but because poverty denies them the basics: school fees, uniforms, meals, and books. Many orphans and children from marginalized communities never even step into a classroom.
The Bridge2School is SAPE Foundation’s child sponsorship initiative, created to connect these vulnerable children with compassionate supporters worldwide. With as little as $30–$50 per term, you can keep a child in school—providing fees, scholastic materials, meals, or even a uniform.
This is more than charity—it is a bridge of hope. By sponsoring a child today, you are not only changing their story, but also breaking the cycle of poverty for an entire family and community.
Sponsor Now. Be the bridge that takes a Ugandan child from struggle to success.
Sponsor a child: Donate a school kit: Contribute to school meals: give towards our education fund that ensures no child is left behind.
Together, we can transform vulnerability into opportunity, and despair into hope.
School Environment Education Program
In the bid to fill the gap in Uganda’s curriculum by making climate literacy practical and accessible in schools, SAPE Foundation’s YES Global Initiative launched the TEEN (The Environmental Education Nexus) after our founder, Richard Tusabe, was selected as a CEE-Change Fellow by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)—joining 29 global leaders in civic and environmental education. This recognition enabled us to pioneer Green Champions Clubs in schools, creating safe spaces where students connect climate and/or environmental issues to their daily lives. In 2024, we were honoured as one of only 11 global winners of the Global E-STEM Awards by NAAEE and Pratt & Whitney, helping us expand to five schools covering directly 225 students and impacting tens of thousands of more other students. Through hands-on projects like kitchen gardening and upcycling plastics, students are embedding STEM learning into environmental problem-solving, showing how science can tackle climate change, poverty and food insecurity, just to mention but a few.
Already, Green Champions are emerging as advocates who turn environmental stewardship into improved livelihoods. Yet this is just the beginning—thousands of schools remain unreached. That is why we are calling on partners, donors, and well-wishers to help us scale the Green Champions Clubs, reach out more schools, train more teachers, and empower youth for environmental stewardship across Uganda.
Your support can bring climate literacy into classrooms, transform education, and raise a new generation ready to fight poverty and climate change together.
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