ACSET – Uganda is a registered non-profit making and community based Organization that is also incorporated with limited guarantee under Uganda Company Act number one of 2012 with registration number: 221856. ACSET Uganda is a member of Lira NGO forum – an umbrella organization of NGOs and CBOs working in Lango Sub-region in northern Uganda.

ACSET – Uganda carries its activities using a right base strategic approach towards fighting poverty among the vulnerable communities. With adequate knowledge and understanding of development issues in Uganda, the creation of ACSET Uganda reflects a great concern by founders about the need to address the lack of opportunities within the vulnerable children and youth in Uganda. They reach children and Youth of the “Last Mile” – those who are economically and socially outside the reach of mainstream services and support, including Orphans, Disabled Children, Children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS, street children, war child, Child Mothers, Child Headed Households and hard-to-reach rural populations and other marginalized groups.

WHAT THEY DO

Using a Right – Based – Approach, ACSET implements four inter-related and connected thematic areas, each of them with specific objectives to alleviate poverty in Uganda.

- Agriculture and Economic Development: this theme strives to improve food and nutrition security and economic resilience of the rural poor. This is done through implementation of agricultural projects, promoting income generating activities and financial literacy using Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) methodology.
- Education and Vocational skill Promotion: this theme strives to enhance inclusive quality education by sponsoring vulnerable children, improving school performances, improving teaching and literacy quality as well as school infrastructure improvement. This theme also promotes vocation skill training to tackle employment challenges in Uganda and improve on entrepreneurship development.
- Renewable Energy and Clean drinking water: this thematic area strives to promote use of renewable energy like solar power and biogas in schools, health centres and rural households. They also promote use of clean drinking water in schools, health centres and rural households.
- Social protection: They promote Human Rights, democratic governance and rule of law. They foster to empower civil society to take up their roles so that social rights of Orphans, vulnerable children and women are protected.

ACSET reaches the children and Youth of the “Last Mile” – those who are economically and socially outside the reach of mainstream services and support, including Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC); street children, child laborers’, AIDS Orphans, hard-to-reach rural populations and other marginalized groups like child mothers, disabled children, child headed families, children in contact with law and children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.