This Isn’t Charity.
This Is Transformation.
Village leaders are reimagining what is possible when entire communities choose change.
This Isn’t Charity.
This Is Transformation.
Village leaders are reimagining what is possible when entire communities choose change.
Ourganda has adopted 13 villages in the Bundibugyo District with a combined population of 17,000 people.
Every nonprofit helps individuals, sometimes families. Ourganda does that, but leaders in our villages have asked us to simultaneously help them transform the village. If we don’t change the village, if people are constantly immersed in violence, inequality and despair, changing an individual’s circumstances is not enough.
The easy road is to react. If all we do is react, we don’t have to worry about changing behavior. Ourganda is creating a pathway from chaos, poverty and fear to order, safety and hope.
Everything we do falls under six powerful areas of transformation, each with a responsive strategy to solve today’s crisis and a preventative strategy to ensure tomorrow looks nothing like yesterday.
Everything Ourganda does culminates with a legal document called the Family Agreement. Hundreds of couples have already agreed with their signatures that all property is owned equally by husband and wife, the girls in their family choose when to marry and to whom, they will resolve differences with words instead of weapons — and six other transformational agreements.
Read the Agreement
We break the cycle that caused the crisis.
Solving today’s problem is good. Preventing it from happening again is better. That’s why we work to rewrite the future—starting with the root causes.
We build long-term solutions that restore dignity, empower independence, and change entire communities from the inside out.
We meet urgent needs with compassion and speed.
When someone is sick, abused, or dying, we don’t delay. We move fast. From emergency surgeries to domestic violence response, we act in real time to stop the bleeding—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
This work doesn’t happen without people like you. Whether you give monthly, take a trip, or just share a story—you are part of the movement.
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