Pride for Youth Uganda is a Transgender led organization with the main focus on advocating for human rights, health, and Economic Empowerment of the Transgenders living and staying in rural areas of Uganda. An organization which was formed in 2018, to overcome the violence, discrimination, threatened and stigmatized because of their sexual orientation to escape the suffering. Pride for Youth Uganda offers the following services to Transgender persons, HIV testing and Counseling Services, Health Education, Distribution of health consumables and legal aid services, and sensitization dialogues. STI/STDs screening testing and treatment, Economic Empowerment to the Transgender persons. Pride for Youth Uganda is operating in districts like lganga, Kaliro, Namutumba and Kamuli.
VISION
To create a self-sustaining generation of Transgender youth.
MISSION
Empowering the Youth out of social marginalization, isolation, and discrimination through income-generating initiatives and formal education with basic technical/vocational skills.
GOALS
To empower the marginalized group with assertive and developmental skills through economic empowerment and to provide Sexual Reproductive Health and services for minority groups in rural areas of Uganda and also Capacity build its members.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION.
To improve knowledge of the beneficiaries in practical skills and education that can make them entrepreneurs as well as empowering the youth who have got little or no chance of formal education with basic technical/vocational skills
To increase general awareness among all categories of people on HIV/AIDS and its related problems with specific attention to Transgender persons.
To revitalize minds of all youth about HIV/AIDS and their roots.
To increase collaboration plans with other organizations, bodies or individuals whether national or international but having advocacy strategies for the similar cause as laid herein.
To increase awareness about the acceptable health standards among Youth, the next generation and care for other members suffering from other opportunistic infections.
PFYUG is very much aimed at empowering youth with the basic information communication skills
To have and cause the organization be registered in accordance with the laws and regulations governing Community based Organization.
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