Marianne Foundation

The previous boarding location, within Ibanda town, could no longer suit the growing needs of the organization. Therefore, we have begun construction on a new location!

Features of the new location include a larger girls dorm, an expanded skilling center, a women’s tea room, accommodations for international volunteers, a craft shop, water and electricity connections, and staff offices.

We are grateful to all of our partners thus far who have helped make this dream a reality, but we are not done yet!

The Marianne Foundation needs $10,000 more to complete the project - $5,000 to complete the main structure and $5,000 to finish the girls dorm!

If you are interested in supporting the Marianne Foundation and the empowerment of women, please donate using our safe, secure donation link so that the money goes directly to the Foundation:

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Current and Past Projects

Agriculture Training

Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training

Solid Rock and ACTS For Water

With partnership from Hope Seeds Inc, Day3Seeds and the Lutheran Church of Uganda, over 120 women in Ibanda district were trained in vegetable growing, value addition and nutrition! Many seeds were freely distributed and we are grateful to the partners who paid for these seeds.

Solid Rock and ACTS For Water

Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training

Solid Rock and ACTS For Water

Marianne Foundation was hired by Solid Rock Consulting to carry out a skills training in Isingiro and Ibanda Districts, funded by ACTS For Water. Marianne Foundation conducted a needs assessment in each community, and soon will be conducting skilling workshops in soap making, brick making, and reusable pad making. All beneficiaries will also participant in our entrepreneurship training.

See our Needs Assessment Report here!

Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training

In July 2022, Marianne Foundation partnered with Kagiira Farm in Ibanda to conduct a day long training event inviting women from all VSLA groups to participate in training in piggery, poultry, and strawberry farming. Over 500 women participated!

Program Management, Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop

In partnership with Ibanda University

Our public health consultants, Clare Killian and Carly Cote, facilitated a week long workshop in program management, monitoring and evaluation utilizing reflexive participation education, whereby the students utilized Marianne Foundation program areas to apply course concepts. All participants were awarded certificates of completion upon the end of the course.

We aim to provide this course on an annual or semi annual basis so stay tuned for any upcoming courses!

Rwamwanja Settlement Skills Training

Amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time, refugee camps have become

overcrowded faster than ever. For those displaced inside these camps, concerns like the spread of

disease, access to basic needs and survival consume daily life. With unprecedented post

COVID-19 challenges, refugees require urgent comprehensive programs to enhance their

livelihoods.

Being a women or young girl in a refugee camp exacerbates these concerns. Reports documented by several human rights commissions and multilateral organizations have proved it time and again. Challenges of early marriage, unemployment and water and sanitation in the temporary roofed shelters can make daily life a struggle.

Marianne Foundation focuses on teenagers living within the Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement under our Women's Skills Center program. We empower them with skills such as tailoring and garment cutting, making crafts etc. These skilling initiatives are are supported with sewing machines as method to start self-employment. We hope to expand this project once resources are available.

Our Projects