Our Projects
Our projects are closely aligned to several the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations in 2015, namely:
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Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
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Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries.
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Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
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Goal 15 Protect, Restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Here are some of the projects in each of the three areas where we work.
1. Clean water and Sanitation
Families and communities frequently have to collect water from swamps and unprotected springs. Women and young children especially spend time on collecting water which is often contaminated and a source of disease. Kisoboka have been able to support rain water harvesting systems at schools in Uganda and Kenya. This means that the students have access to clean water at the school.
We directly fund the building of toilets at schools in the rural areas of Masaka district, Uganda. At one such school, Happy Hour Primary School, 620 students now have access to clean, safe toilet facilities where none existed before. Built by local workers and in partnership with MADLACC, this project improves health, dignity, and school attendance.
In 2023, Kisoboka was instrumental in researching and scoping a project to provide safe drinking water and water for sanitation in schools in the wider Masaka district, Uganda. The project objectives are provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities across 23 schools in Southwest Masaka District of Uganda and the installation of new facilities to meet school demands.
We chaired the initial project meetings, helped assess and appoint the engineer to oversee the project and contributed 50% of the costs to produce the baseline study report which included shortlisting the schools most in need of safe sanitation. The programme that is now being delivered by WaterHarvest and MADLACC.
2. Education and mentoring
We have provided business training for motivated secondary school teachers in the area of Masaka who want to teach business skills to the local community. This is an important area of development so that capable individuals can set up small businesses to earn an income for their families, they just need the training on how to do it.
Following our training in January 2025, a new poultry farm with 80 chickens was launched creating income and food security. We’ve also received multiple new business proposals from graduates, showing sustained momentum and local ambition.
3. Sustainable farming
Our approach is sustainable farming on a small scale for local communities. One example is a High School in Masaka where a Food Security Project has been started with cultivation of vegetables and maize together with fish tanks and a greenhouse for tomatoes and peppers. All these projects have made maximum use of local labour, parents and senior students with technical inputs from local tradesmen and engineers.