Friends of Motherland Initiative "Ubumuntu" | NGO for Children and Women's Rights | Friends Of Motherland Initiative Ubumuntu

VISION

To build inclusive and resilient communities where children, youth, women, and vulnerable people have access to quality education, equal opportunities, and sustainable livelihoods.

MISSION

To empower vulnerable children, youth, women, and marginalized communities through quality education, advocacy, social and economic development, child protection, climate action, and community-led initiatives.

FMI “Ubumuntu” delivers its mission through community engagement, volunteerism, advocacy, partnerships, and capacity building, ensuring communities actively participate in identifying challenges, implementing solutions, and sustaining results. Volunteers are integrated across program implementation to support community mobilization, awareness, data collection, learning, mentoring, follow-up, and local ownership.

Our Objectives

Education

To improve equitable access to inclusive, safe, and quality education for vulnerable children and young people while strengthening school retention, learning outcomes, life skills, and disability inclusion.
To improve the health, nutrition, protection, and well-being of vulnerable communities through preventive, community-based, and rights-centered interventions.
To advance gender equality, human rights, safeguarding, and social inclusion by empowering women, girls, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
To strengthen sustainable livelihoods and economic resilience of vulnerable households, youth, and women through skills development, entrepreneurship, savings, employability, and income-generating opportunities.
To strengthen climate resilience and environmental sustainability through agroecology, ecosystem restoration, environmental education, sustainable natural-resource management, and community-led climate action.

Empower teachers to provide communication skills to the children in Kinyarwanda, English, and Kiswahili
School Reintegration of children and youth who dropped out through the Back-to School Campaign.
Providing school materials to vulnerable children through school materials, school fees, school uniforms, and other school needs.
Community Library promotion  TVET Promotion