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Ever wondered how to create positive impact on a pressing need facing humanity or our planet?

Meet native Ugandan, Jockas Matte, executive director of the Wilmat Development Foundation, a non-profit youth-led organization that empowers underprivileged communities in Uganda with practical skills for sustainable livelihoods. He champions initiatives that help Ugandan women and youth gain skills in entrepreneurship and agriculture to enrich their communities, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while supporting the preservation of earth and water.

Join us to gain inspiration and insights about leading positive change as we learn how Jockas got started and is navigating breakthroughs and challenges along the way. Join the live chat with others from around the world!

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Wilmat Development Foundation
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Wilmat Development Foundation-WDF in partnership with Anthill Foundation jointly work on education projects at all levels as a way of impacting economic and social development in Uganda. The coalition identified the essence of quality education as fundamental and important for its relevance is towards the development of the economy. As a result, WDF and Anthill Foundation have identified the need to work with students to transform and prepare them for and after graduation through holding mentorship clinics, public lectures and trainings in schools and institutions of higher learning, in line with the Government of Uganda vision 2040. 

WDF carried out a survey to to assess the validity of hands on vocational training and its relevance towards the education sector and its aims tailored towards promoting self -sustainability. The results show that the students can not do without hands on skills in order to live sustainably; hence the University outreach program. 
This program took place on the 14/9/2019 for Kyambogo University and 4/10/2019 for MUBS, with various speakers and partners taking part. Over 500 students were reached through this program and impacted positively. Many reported that they needed more of such training to equip them better for life challenges during and after campus, under the THEME: "Unlocking their self-potential towards investment".

Managing solid waste collection aims at improving the cleanliness of the city. It is estimated that the per capita generation of garbage is one kilogram per day. With a population of about 1.5 million, this works out to about 1500 tons. The city councils can only manage to dispose of 40% - 50% of this. About 80% of this garbage is organic matter which makes it very bulky to handle.

Climate change is a global challenge that has no borders and to combat it requires coordinated work by all countries and people. Many people do not know what it really amounts to, either due to unreliable sources or deliberate misinformation, which has led to a series of myths about climate change. In these pages, we tackle the subject from an objective, scientific viewpoint, discussing the causes and consequences of climate change and how it should be tackled.

BACKGROUND

WILMAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION is a Non-Profit Organization that was founded in 2014 with the main goal of providing practical education to the underprivileged community people in Uganda. Early 2019, we took on the partnership with Changing Lives-Switzerland as education is the way out of poverty and further improve their living conditions through sustainable development programs by integrating them in the society and helping them to find the best solutions to the entrenched problems affecting them in their respective communities. Our experience is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs of life and access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.

Wilmat Development Foundation
 

Wilmat Development Foundation is a Non-Profit Charitable Organization that aims at social innovation through creating new solutions to entrenched problems through social ventures, movements and campaigns. We seek to bring in new ideas for breaking barriers facing millions around the world, delivering more impact, for less money, with greater potential for sustainable scale. Inspired by the venture of social, leadership and economic-empowerment experience, we seek to use an evidence-based working model to test ideas, gather evidence of what works, find failures quickly and cheaply, without long-term commitments, and continue to support only proven solutions. 

Everyday the argue for a better future is on a high demand and we have to join hands together and Change Lives in our communities through developmental programs and projects for sustainable development.

Parent Teacher Conference GETS REAL in 2019. The battle of students vs teachers is centuries old. Find out how this one ends. Video done in collaboration with the Sharjah Government Media Bureau of UAE.

I tell you that the children of yesteryear are walking in the funeral of the era which they created for themselves. They are pulling a rotting rope that may break soon and cause them to drop into a forgotten abyss. I say that they are living in homes with weak foundations. As the storm blows - and it is about to blow - their homes will fall upon their heads and thus become their tombs. I say that all their thoughts, their sayings, their quarrels, their compositions, their books and all their works are nothing but chains dragging them because they are too weak to pull the load.

But the children of tomorrow are the ones called by life, and they follow it with steady steps and heads high. They are the dawn of the new frontiers; no smoke will veil their eyes and no jingle of chains will drown out their voices. They are few in number but the difference is as between a grain of wheat and a stack of hay. No one knows them but they know each other. They are like the summits, which can see and hear each other - not like caves, which cannot hear or see. They are the seed dropped by the hand of God in the field, breaking through its pod and waving its sapling leaves before the face of the sun. It shall grow into a mighty tree; its roots in the heart of the Earth and its branches high in the sky.

Kahlil Gibran