From Victims to Community Peacebuilding Champions

Dear Friend and Partner, thank you sincerely for your generous support of the Victims to Community Peacebuilding Champions project. We write to you with an update on our progress and an exciting look ahead at what your generosity is making possible. We want to acknowledge that the early part of 2026 brought a slower start than anticipated. Uganda's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections created a period of heightened political activity that naturally slowed our community mobilisation efforts, gathering volunteers, convening youth, and running community sessions all require environments of relative calm. Rather than push forward under difficult conditions, we used that time wisely: laying groundwork, deepening partnerships, and preparing a robust rollout for the moment the landscape stabilised. That moment has arrived, and we are fully geared up for 2026.

We are proud to share that we have recruited 38 new community volunteers who have each committed a minmum of eight hours per week to actively support and train young people through peacebuilding techniques, reconciliation skills, and leadership development. These volunteers will not only pass critical skills on to young leaders in their communities, they will themselves be strengthened to counter misinformation, disinformation, and manipulation, growing positive new relationships that model the reconciliation they teach. The young people they serve belong to Peace Clubs, structured spaces that help youth challenge stereotypes and prejudices, build friendships across divides, and work together for community development. To ensure the highest quality of training and mentorship, each of our 38 new volunteers has been linked to one of the more than 30 Master Trainers who recently graduated from the Global Unites Master Trainer Academy (GUMTA), a rigorous programme that equips facilitators with the deepest expertise in conflict transformation and community peacebuilding. Thanks to donors like you, we have already raised $2,013 of our $3,400 goal. We are 59% of the way there, and every remaining dollar brings us closer to reaching every young person we have committed to serve. Please consider making a donation today to help us complete this vital work, together, we are building the peace Uganda's next generation deserves.