Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation

Our Background

Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation (KCEF) is a registered Community Based Organization in Uganda, directly affiliated to Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation Inc; a registered 501© in Maryland USA to coordinate resources and support KCEF community alleviation projects in Uganda.

We currently run and adopted a parish model system (one community at a time) with the aim of shaping out a complete self-sustaining community. With all our focus on Namutamba Parish in Mityana District, we have projects spread across the 12 villages. Our community driven projects are targeted towards the well being of the families we serve. We work closely with them to design fundamentally connected sustainable life changing projects.

Our Vision is a community where all people have unlimited access to clean water & sanitation facilities and provide opportunities for families to solve social and economic challenges.

Our Mission is to expand community access to clean water , promote sanitation and empower communities to embrace social & economic challenges for sustainable development.

We appreciate your efforts, and we are truly grateful for the support in our communities and for every donation made to benefit the community of Namutamba, Uganda. By getting involved, you are contributing towards creating and sustaining a positive impact on the health and well-being of children and mothers. Please make a donation and help us generate the resources we need to make a difference in their lives.

Get involved and make a difference in someone's life. Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation engages communities in order to identify individuals and organizations that seek to contribute and join the cause. We work together to create awareness of how critical the needs are and also to gather resources and donations that will aid in eradicating the prevalence of waterborne diseases and provide access to quality education, clean and safe water, in addition maternal and infant care.

We would love for you to be a part of rekindling hope and igniting empowerment in the community. Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation is absolutely committed to motivating the next generation of children to be high achievers and to strive for success by providing improved equitable quality education among vulnerable children.

"Improved Equitable Quality Education Among Vulnerable Children"

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OUR TEAM

Ann Bunyenyezi Karasanyi

President (Founder)

info@kcefuganda.org

When I retired in 2010, I remembered the words of President Kennedy: “Do not ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. Having worked for over 30 years with a Development Agency, I resolved to see how I could help my community in getting access to clean water. Namutamba is the only home I know away from home. My parents, from Busanza, Kisoro District, in Uganda, were missionaries in Shyira, Rwanda, where I was born. Due to economic challenges there, we returned to Uganda, to Namutamba at my tender age of 2 years. We settled there and never looked back.

My permanent residence today is in Maryland, USA with my husband of 44 years, however, Namutamba is where I consider my roots to be. I founded Kisaakye Community Empowerment Foundation with a main focus on access to clean water and empowering communities to solve social and economic challenges.

I want to see my hometown, rejuvenated like it was in the times of my childhood. We had clean water from a source identified by the European settlers, who later left due to pressures of the then President of Uganda, Idi Amin. The backbone of our local economy was the Tea Estate, where my father served as a Tea Taster, and later worked in the administration of the new owners, the Nagenda’s. That Tea Estate is almost nonexistent now and the economy and development is facing many challenges but there is hope!

Kyambadde Richard

Vice President

vicepresident@kcefuganda.org

An Environmental Scientist with eleven years of project planning, management and implementation experience. Knowing Ann was my gateway to my passion for the community of Namutamba. When I saw the young women and men picking tea on a brutally hot sunny day in the vast tea estates and the little children trekking tedious miles just to get clean water, my heart melted, and I knew I had to get involved.

I long to see a community where people have access to clean water, better sanitation facilities and are well empowered to afford education and basic life necessities. With teamwork and your helpful donations, this will be achieved.

Sahab Moses Gateja

Treasurer

Sahabu Moses Gateja is an enterprise & value chain development expert, with more than 10 years’ experience in empowering and transforming the lives of smallholder farmers by catalyzing establishment and growth of competitive and sustainable Dairy Producer organizations with a focus to achieve inclusive growth in poor rural areas of Uganda.

He played a key role in the development of the milk consumption strategy with the various players in the dairy value chain being a focal person between the dairy development authority and the processors. He has in-depth experience in Dairy Business planning, internal control systems and managing market driven interventions aimed at making the markets work for the poor and he is a leading trainer/facilitator in market development approaches. He is well equipped with technical and strategic skills enabling him to manage change and different cultures effectively.

He is passionate about impact, he's results driven, value based, innovative, and thrives in a team environment. He worked with Technoserve Inc. in various capacities as a business advisor, senior and a team leader on the East Africa dairy development project responsible for coordinating implementation of a market-driven dairy program in Uganda. His wish is to make Namutamba a better place for everyone to live in.