YOUTH IN ACT-UGANDA
A Light into Youth in Act-Uganda
In July, 2026 Youth in Act - Uganda Director Waiswa John Billy writes:
Youth in Act-Uganda is a community-driven organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable children and young people through education, health, mentorship, environmental conservation, and economic empowerment. We work with communities to create safe spaces where children can learn, grow, and dream beyond their circumstances. Our mission is to raise a generation of responsible, skilled, and confident young leaders who can transform their communities.
Through our programs, we support children’s education, menstrual health and hygiene (MHH), tree planting initiatives, life-skills training, and community engagement projects that strengthen families and protect children.
The Challenge We Want to Tackle
One of the biggest challenges we are tackling is child vulnerability caused by poverty, lack of education access, poor menstrual health support, and environmental degradation. Many children in our communities struggle to stay in school because of school fees, inadequate learning materials, hunger, and lack of menstrual hygiene products for girls. This often leads to school dropout, child labor, early marriages, and limited opportunities.
At the same time, climate change and environmental destruction are affecting livelihoods, food security, and community resilience. Through our tree nursery and environmental restoration programs, we aim to address this by promoting sustainable practices while creating learning and income opportunities for young people.
Our goal is to build a future where every child has access to education, dignity, opportunity, and a healthy environment.
The audit team was led by John Manyi of Savannah Rose Rescue Home and Julius Gumisiriza who studied business and accounting. Patrick Arinaitwe, agriculturist and community organizer, assessed the land use project, assisted by Ivan Nahurira, engineering student, and Josephat Agaba, business student. The video below, filmed during the audit, puts the viewer into Uganda's agricultural countryside and the orphanage's daily life.
To view John Manyi's final report of the auditing team, follow this link:
To view Ivan Nahurira's engineering report on the 10 acres, click this link.
To view Agaba Josephat's audit of the 10-acre agricultural project, click this link.
To view Patrick Arinaitwe's agricultural assessment of the 10 acres, click this link.
To view Julius Gumisiriza's auditor's report on His Grace Children's Home, click this link.
This link will bring you to the Audit/Third Party Verification Document. If you were going to visit an orphanage to verify their work, here are the questions you would ask, interviews you would conduct, documents you'd examine.
Waiswa John Billy writes: "Youth in Act-Uganda is a Non-Profit Organization that addresses the needs of orphans and needy children, empowers youth and women and reaches out to needy communities, since 2012, founded with the major aim of “uplifting the young generation.”
Our Strategic Plan 2023-2028 can be found on the spiritualfamily.net website at:
https://spiritualfamily.net/file/view/55563/youth-in-act-uganda-strategic-plan-2023%E2%80%932028-youth-in-act-uganda
With several interrelated programs focused on children, youth and women, we seek to contribute to the creation of resilient and self-reliant communities by placing people at the forefront of change. We empower marginalized people by providing practical skills for livelihoods. Our Food Forest Certification Program puts food self-reliance first--at a time when northern Uganda's semi-arid region is struggling with famine.
The organization has registered steady progress and positively impacts the community, youth, women and children.
Youth in Act-Uganda cares for 35 orphans at its Children’s Home and has impacted over 3000 lives in the community.
Thanks to generous donors through Snake River Music Gardens, we have purchased 10 acres with 60 beehives where we plan to expand our orphanage from 35 to 100 children and grow our Extinct Tree Hub, a nursery to revive native African fruit and nut trees.
We invite individuals, organizations, businesses, churches and ministries to support the work of Youth in Act-Uganda."
Snake River Music Gardens supports Youth in Act-Uganda through our 100 Families Campaign. The formula is 100 Families = 1 orphanage. Thus far we are 49 families. Join us! We support Youth in Act-Uganda's gardening, beekeeping and music programs to teach youth practical skills to develop livelihoods. To donate, visit Snake River Music Gardens Donate page.
Orphanage director Waiswa John Billy and Ugandan musician Kashagga Grace have agreed to start a music program at the orphanage.
The music program needs musical instruments. Kashagga Grace provided a list:
Lamellophones, quantity 6, $236.07 (These are African thumb pianos. See picture below)
Flutes, quantity 6, $236.07
Xylophone, quantity 1, $163.93
Guitar, quantity 1, $229.51
Drums, quantity 5, $327.87
Piano/Keyboard, quantity 1, $491.80
Trumpet, quantity 1, $196.72
Saxophone, quantity 1, $590.16
TOTAL $2,472.13
This project is do-able if 10 donors contribute $25/month for 10 months.
Below is a picture of an African thumb piano. To hear what this amazing little instrument can do, visit https://www.kalimbamagic.com/SoundClips/CarolBells.mp3
