Empowering Women and Youth in Uganda.

We lift adolescents and vulnerable women in Kasese with vocational skills, entrepreneurship training, menstrual hygiene support, education scholarships, and mental health campaigns. Join us to end poverty and promote equality!

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Together We Are
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Humanity

Your support helps young people stay in school and helps women build safer, more stable livelihoods.

Spes For Community operates within Kasese Municipality, empowering adolescents and young women in urban suburbs to better their lives. We do this through advocacy, providing education scholarships, mentoring, vocational & entrepreneurial skills and creating awareness about sexual reproductive health and rights.

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Group of women and girls holding certificates and handmade woven bags inside a corrugated metal community workshop building.
Two girls seated outside weaving handles onto colorful handmade bags, surrounded by finished woven baskets and crafting materials. Handwoven decorative baskets and covered containers with colorful geometric patterns displayed on a wooden table.

Our Story

Spes for Community was founded by Masika Meresi in 2022, years after Masika became a single mother of two boys.

Masika lost her job immediately after becoming a single mother. She didn’t give up on her dreams of empowering and advocating for women and adolescents' formal education because she believed that, despite all the challenges, solutions to our problems lie within us so she turned to GOD for strength and help.

Living in her community for over 30 years, Masika witnessed extreme poverty, gender inequality, unemployment among illiterate women, high rates of school dropouts, and high rates of teenage pregnancy.

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Our Programs

Take a look at our extensive programs that Spes for Community is offering to women and youth in the communities.

Vocational Skilling for Women

Empowers teenage single mothers and vulnerable women with basket weaving and craft shoe-making skills to create sustainable livelihoods.

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Menstrual Hygiene Initiative

Provides reusable sanitary pads to schoolgirls and raises awareness to end menstrual stigma, ensuring uninterrupted education.

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Education Scholarship Program

Offers scholarships to adolescents at risk of dropping out, reducing Kasese’s 66.7% dropout rate.

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Entrepreneurship Mentorship Program

Mentors young women to establish and grow their own businesses through practical entrepreneurship training.

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Two girls seated outside weaving handles onto colorful handmade bags, surrounded by finished woven baskets and crafting materials.

Mental Health Awareness Campaign

Promotes community well-being through mental health campaigns and advocacy for gender equality.

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3Years In Charity
5Established health clubs in school
8+Staff Members
10+Volunteers
50+Mentorships sessions
200+Beneficiaries

Handmade Goods

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Impact Stories

Stories from the skills program

Read how practical training and startup support are helping young mothers build income and independence.

Biira during basket weaving sessions as her baby looks on.

Biira

Biira began earning income through handmade baskets and later started a small pancake business.

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Robina receiving her certificate and startup kit at graduation.

Robina

Robina expanded from basket weaving into a small smoked fish business while caring for her daughter.

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Kabugho at her small market stall business.

Kabugho

Kabugho used startup support to establish a small market stall business.

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SPES For Community

Registered CBO

Registered in Uganda

Spes for community is registered with kasese municipal council in the category of community based organization (CBO) under Registration No. CE/CBS/291/2024/2025.

Registration

CE/CBS/291/2024/2025

Location

Nyamukama Road, Kasese

Email

spesforcommunity@gmail.com

Bank

Centenary Bank, Kasese Branch

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