MIFUMI Project

MIFUMI Project Plot 1 Masaba Road, PO Box 274 Tororo, Tororo Uganda Uganda 256 392 781 122 http://www.mifumi.org

Mission

To secure basic rights for grassroots people through the provision of education, healthcare services, the economic empowerment of women through loans provision & protecting women & girls from domestic violence & abuse & bride price violations. We believe all women should be free of violence & the fear of violence & the fear of violence & from poverty & oppression. Our vision is a world where people have the opportunity to realise their full potential, and a world free of violence.

Programs

Domestic Violence 3: This project aims to strengthen the Africa wide response to violence against women, through survivor led social mobilisation to enact the message about the social/economic/legal/human rights costs & implications of abuse against girls. Voices for a Future: Protecting youth from bride price violations, through youth empowerment & education of youth across Southern Africa. Other programs: Mifumi Legal Aid Service Providers Network; Mifumi Primary School; Mifumi Health Centre

Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

MIFUMI-Ensuring women's rights in Uganda

Personnel Overview

Atuki Turner - Founding Director
Atuki is the founding member of MIFUMI and currently its Executive Director. She was born in MIFUMI village where this now national project got its name. She founded the project while working as a Refuge Manager for Sojurners House - a shelter for abused in England. She has worked as a press volunteer for UNICEF and was Advisor to CHANGE Int.

Simon Peter Ndira - Deputy Executive Director
Simon Ndira was the President of the Interact club (1993-1994) while in senior secondary school. During his era, behaviour change was launched by the Youth Alive Club, a renowned club in Uganda challenging young people to change behaviour in order to combat HIV/AIDS. Simon then worked as a facilitator for the Youth Alive Club. After pursuing university studies in Germnay, he joined MIFUMI.

Personnel Statistics

Atuki Turner,
Executive Director
Founded in 1994
Employees: 22
Volunteers: 25

Financial Statistics

Budget (2006): $ 405,000
Budget (2005): $ 408,000
Maximum Budget: $ 504,000
Overhead: 12 %
Other funding sources: Big Lotto (UK), Comic Relief, Department for International Development (DfID) Civil Society Challenge Fund, Individuals
Religious Affiliation: Christian