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NANSANA
KISENYI
RUBAGA
NAKAWA
WAKISO
Sunshine Urban Foundation (SUF)
We are a grassroots organisation dedicated to delivering child and youth programs in urban contexts, focusing on early childhood development (ECD), livelihoods, and climate justice. Our goal is to transform families and communities in slums and refugee informal settlements.
WHY FOCUS ON URBAN
- Rapid urbanisation — 50% by 2030in Uganda (World Bank,2015)
- Limited programming focus and services
- Poverty/Poor living conditions for the youngest children — no space to play, poor housing etc
- High Youth unemployment (O’Neill,2022)
- Very poor child statistics-immunisation, nutrition, VAC, Paediatric HIV, substance abuse Limited Data.