Brave Hearts Foundation

Brave Hearts is a local nonprofit and humanitarian organization operating in Uganda, founded and led by experienced humanitarian, human rights and development professionals. Brave Hearts is an NGO Certified Public Charity organization. It empowers communities to reach their full potential rights.  We believe people can—and should—be lifted out of the cycle of poverty. And we believe in helping people to help themselves through finding local solutions. The organization blends experience, knowledge and expertise with a team of professionals and volunteers to develop and implement innovative emergency humanitarian assistance, development and post emergency durable solution programs with full participation of persons of concern. 

WHY DISPLACED PERSONS AND PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY  

Almost every Ugandan has a story with refugees. Uganda has a long history of hosting refugees and asylum seekers dating back to the 1940s. In the years 1942-1944, over 7000 Polish refugees mainly women and children fleeing World War II were received and settled by Ugandan government in Masindi and Mukono district. 

Uganda’s refugee laws have evolved over the years and are now regarded among the most progressive in the world. Our policies promote refugee integration with local communities and support refugee self-reliance. This has created a favorable environment for development -oriented planning for refugees and host communities. 

The refugee response in Uganda has traditionally been largely led by foreign international organizations with local organization only playing a supporting role. Currently local NGOs are given more priorities to do partnership with the international NGO and even to operate independently. More so, Uganda is prone to natural hazards such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, landslides, lightning and their secondary impacts of diseases like HIV/AIDs, Ebola, Covid-19, etc among other epidemics. Floods and landslides/ slope failures are the most frequent. The region is equally prone to man-made disasters such as water pollution which leads to most of population being more vulnerable and live under one dollar a day.


According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Uganda had a total number of 130,000 new forced displacements in 2019 due to disaster, this greatly impacted on the affected communities to access safe water and dignified sanitation facilities, as well as their livelihood. We have identified projects in collaboration with the local people in Western Uganda both economically and socially in order to uplift their standards of living based on real pressing needs, we are the eyes and ears on the ground, with the most in-depth information on people’s needs, working directly with the people to ensure both donors and target beneficiaries get the best possible outcome out of the projects.

Through the five years of its existence, Brave Hearts has significantly grown from a Community Based Organization (CBO) to a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and become a strategic partner with government of Uganda.  WHO WE ARE We have now become a strategic partner with JAC trust and Government of Uganda – Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), these partnerships have enabled us to deliver programs in two districts, Ibanda and Kamwenge in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement.

Vision: Building Resilient Communities empowered to improve their own livelihood through appropriate and affordable alternatives.

Mission: To help individuals and Communities discover their potential to provide local solutions for local problems

Values:

  • Transparency

  • Accountability

  • Respect

  • Integrity

  • Service

Our Focus:

  1. Child and general Protection [GBV, Psychosocial and Legal] 

  2. Early Childhood Development and Education

  3. Environmental Education, Protection and Conservation 

  4. Livelihood support and enhanced opportunities

  5. Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

  6. Gender inclusiveness and mainstreaming