About Us
On August 29th 2004, the family and friends of the late Abu Mayanja, then celebrating his 75th birthday undertook to start a foundation to carry forward his legacy and uphold his memory and values. The AK Mayanja Foundation was then registered in April 2007.
The Foundation aspires to use the ‘goodwill’ and ‘fellowship’ that survives Abu Mayanja, as an abiding appeal to Ugandans and the global community to contribute resources and wisdom that it will then channel into supporting community benefit and nation-building ventures, symbolising the values and the causes of social justice championed and upheld by Abu Mayanja in his life time. The Foundation will serve as a bridge for mobilising and leveraging philanthropic capital from private citizens, businessmen, governments and development agencies at home and abroad, and will actively seek out the network and contacts of the many distinguished people and institutions Abu Mayanja was fortunate to meet in his long life’s journey through diverse endeavours, across professions, nations, religious and political frontiers.
The Foundation’s activities will include but not be limited to the following:
- Assisting community-based initiatives for promoting better access for rural folk to health, education, safe water and other infrastructure; and facilitating community sensitization programs on primary health care, safe sanitation, AIDS, nutrition, effective land use, environment protection, gender equity and civic education.
- Funding initiatives for research, training, IT and policy analysis, with promising solutions to national development challenges; and emphasising participatory research, assessment and monitoring of social and economic problems to give feedback to decision makers.
- Assisting smallholder farmers in land opening and development, production and harvest techniques, enhanced breeds and inputs; and improving access to market information and marketing assistance, including group transport and produce marketing; and emphasizing agricultural techniques that promote sustainable use of land, water and trees.
- Introducing up-country youths to basic knowledge of their citizenship rights, including the economic, social and human rights dimension; and initiating them into today’s realities of being world citizens and globalisation by teaching Internet use, sporting and talent pursuits
- Promoting cross-cultural dialogue and exchanges to build bridges between Uganda’s regional communities and their geo-political diversities; and promoting faith-based, inter-religious cooperation as a powerful tool for building national institutions of governance, peace, education, health and infrastructure.
- Providing legal and policy advocacy assistance to associations of the disabled including the blind, the deaf, the deafblind, disabled children and women, and mental health sufferers.
- Alleviating the socio-cultural-political traditions constraining women\'s full participation in development activities and building a recognition system for their high economic input in terms of farm labour, family business, managing households, raising children, nursing and educating them.
- Contributing to the growth of the Islamic faith through assistance to Islamic schools and Muslim students, health and worship centres, and other social services that cater to the needs of the Muslim Ummah and its leadership.