Elgon Youth Brass Band is a registered Community based organization located in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda, the project started in 2009 as a result of the appalling poverty situation in the community that had led to a rise in crime rates, street children, early pregnancies and early marriages leave alone dropping out of school by many children and youth. It is for this reason that we need to build a youth center where all youths will meet to reach for one common goal of fighting poverty.
As indicated by the statement on the challenges Uganda has gone through, one of the categories of the population, which has been affected greatly, are the children. There are many vulnerable children who are at risk, which include orphans, street and displaced children. It is with this background that Elgon Youth Development Centre will be launched to bring healing and offer childcare and protection of the children who are especially in difficult circumstances.
The center will help meet the physical needs of the children and foster families by providing food, clothing and other basic needs of life, and also empower youths with hand skills that can give them a route out of poverty.
The center will be the first of it's kind in the community and region at large which will help youth generations. The needy Youths will be empowered with hand skills which they will later use to overcome poverty in the community and also become job creators.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
