Through the Kampala Community Empowerment Project (KCEP), SPAU worked in partnership with CONCERN Worldwide from 2005 – 2008 in the implementation of a service project to improve the socio-economic living conditions of poor and marginalised single paresnts from among 18 zones in Rubaga division, Kampala district.
CONCERN Worldwide is a voluntary non-governmental organisation devoted to the relief, assistance and advancement of peoples in need in less developed areas of the world. CONCERN’s mission is to help people living in absolute poverty achieve major improvements in their lives which last and spread without ongoing support from CONCERN.
The CONCERN-SPAU project came to a close in 2008 and SPAU Director and overall project manager, Paul Lwanga, said of the project: “This project (targeted) the poorest group of people…we have supported at least 1,000 single parents in the project area access better and closer services, to enable them move another rung up the socioeconomic ladder of their lives…”
Download entire version (Message from Director) of Paul’s statement on the project.