Overview
Single Parents Association of Uganda (SPAU) is a Ugandan charitable organisation that aims to empower poor single parents and their families to increase their household incomes and provides a forum for marginalised single parents to advance their rights.
SPAU’s vision is to overcome poverty and stigma among single parents and help create a society that recognises, respects and accepts single parents as equal members of society who can contribute to its socio-economic development.
SPAU’s mission is to improve the welfare of poor and marginalised single parents and their families through empowering single parents to meet their own needs.
SPAU campaigns to achieve equality of opportunities for single parents -both men and women. SPAU supports single parents in Uganda regardless of tribe, race, nationality, gender, or religion. SPAU is concerned with promoting the welfare and development of people in poor single parent families in Uganda.
SPAU mobilises single parents into small units called “SPAU groups”, reflective of the various communities in which they originate and also in which SPAU operates. A typical SPAU group consists of between 15-30 members. It is through these groups that SPAU extends support to the single parents and their families.
SPAU is a small local non-governmental organisation that has so far survived on a limited budget to achieve most of its goals. The primary objective of the projects that we undertake is to ensure that the poorest and often most disadvantaged single parents and their children live better lives. Please contact us to learn about how you can support our work in Uganda.
SPAU Core Values
Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
- Accountability
- Equality
- Gender Equity
- Openness
- Protection of the family unit
- Tolerance