Friends Community Development Trust (Uganda)

Helping build community owned infrastructure for the benefit of the people of Uganda

Our work is currently centred on the Manafwa district of Uganda. We hope that at some stage we will also be able to provide assistance to other communities.

Life in the Manafwa district of Uganda is challenging with widespread poverty and many people relying on subsistence farming.

We raise funds in the UK to support building community owned infrastructure that helps the people of Manafwa, especially the young, to escape the cycle of poverty and subsistence farming.

To date we have helped the local community to;

• build a workshop, now called Butta Polytechnic, that supports local people make a living by making and selling furniture
• build phase 1 of Butta Community Secondary School that has enabled local children stay at school beyond primary school age
• build phase 2 of Butta Community Secondary School that has increased the number of pupils to 88, 42 girls and 46 boys

Our current work to raise funds to build the next stage of the school.