Welcome
Dreams of the Tropical Youth Uganda
About us
Our History
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Objectives
Dreams of the Tropical Youth Uganda is a youth-serving nonprofit organization established in 2016 to uplift the health and socio-economic wellbeing of the vulnerable and disadvantaged rural youth (adolescents and young adults, aged between 12 to 24 years) in Kyotera, Rakai and Masaka districts in rural Uganda. We implement a strategic and behavioural change communication intervention to encourage smart choices.
Our history
Dreams of the Tropical Youth Uganda is a youth-led and youth-centered non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged rural youth. It was founded in January 2016 as a community-based organization (CBO) and later gained official registration with the National NGO Bureau in November 2017.
Our Vision
A community where less privileged rural young people lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Our Mission
To build the capacity of the less privileged rural young people to enable them to recognize and use the resources around them for their holistic empowerment.
Objectives
- To improve Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health and Rights through addressing community mobilization, STIs including HIV, alcohol and drug abuse, poor menstruation and other service delivery issues such as coordination monitoring and evaluation.
- To ensure adequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities for rural young people.
- To strengthen the institutional framework of youth structures through capacity development.
- To improve productivity and address employment challenges among youth through skills development.
Our Core Values
- Transparency
We strive to implement the principle of transparency in all that we do; we do this by being open to rights holders, stakeholders and partners. We believe that transparency will facilitate the building of mutual trust among stakeholders and partners as well as enhance cooperation.
- Accountability
We are responsible for the decisions we make and the actions we take. We are accountable to our constituents and donors by conforming to internationally acceptable financial management systems and giving them the opportunity to evaluate our performance. Accountability ensures a strong reputation for our organization.
- Justice
We endeavor to be fair to all our constituents irrespective of religion, tribe, gender or political affiliation. The principle of justice and promotion of human dignity will be seen all through our operations.
- Participation
We strive to involve rights holders and other stakeholders in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our interventions. Through promoting participation, we make our interventions more meaningful to those that we serve.
- Quality
We believe in the provision of quality service. Quality assurance is at the forefront of our interventions and shall be reinforced, among others, through authentication of manuals and content, vetting participants’ delivery after training, ensuring that contractors use the right materials, mixture, etc. and ensuring quality of the services.
- Professionalism
We ensure observance of professionalism in service delivery. We shall do this by targeting skilled staff for the implementation of our interventions as well as adherence to acceptable professional values and ethics. Professionalism will promote good quality for our interventions.
Our Impact
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Pass on the SAALT Menstrual Health Program
In partnership with SAALT, a B.Corp-certified period care brand, Dreams of the Tropical Youth Uganda is implementing this program with a holistic drive that primarily aims to address the challenge of poor menstrual hygiene in Uganda’s rural learning institutions.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children Support
This program supports the welfare of orphans and vulnerable children. We identify the most vulnerable children and provide them with the opportunity to go to school, for meals, clothes, shoes, access to safe clean drinking water and basic medical care.
Holiday Boot Camp
We provide life skills training, sports and edutainment for at-risk youth that allow them to cope with challenges and move away from involvement in alcohol and drug abuse, violence and crime.
Thematic areas
Our Partners
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Donate
Your financial support will go a long way to enable us to implement important programs that are aimed at uplifting vulnerable young people. A donation no matter what size is very much appreciated including in-kind donations like scholastic materials, field vehicles, clothes, and shoes among others.
Volunteer With Us
Join us at Dreams of the Tropical Youth Uganda. Volunteers play a vital role in transforming the lives of children and families in our communities. By joining our team, you’ll contribute to critical projects focused on children and adolescent health, water and sanitation, youth skills and climate change.
