UECD is a non-profit NGO with an honorary post and leadership in Switzerland. We award stipends to socially disadvantaged young people from Uganda.
In this way, deserving women and men are given the chance to receive the education necessary to achieve a sustained improvement in living conditions for themselves and their families.
Through a sharp focus on the support of women students, UECD attempts to strengthen the position of women in Ugandan society.
Emphasis is placed on continual and sustained backing of students as they seek employment and establish their own careers.
Candidates for a UECD stipend are students who have completed the A-Level, but lack the financial means for further education. Women and young adults from rural areas are given special preference in their applications. Included in the stipend are funds for tuition, books and rent. The students are responsible for seeking and finding financial resources to cover additional expenses. New students are supported in various ways by former UECD recipients. Thus, experience and learning tips lead to exchange and continued communication. We also encourage direct exchanges between UECD recipients and their sponsors.
UECD Switzerland is a non-profit NGO with honorary seat and leadership in Switzerland. We award stipends to socially disadvantaged young women and men from Uganda. Since our inception in June 2007, we have worked closely with our partner organization in Uganda. Our core functions are: to elicit and maintain contact with our sponsors in Switzerland, to do necessary fundraising, to regulate and control finances, and to maintain and further develop the project we have launched.
UECD Uganda is a sovereign organization with a seat in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. It concerns itself mainly with the choosing and fostering of students and takes responsibility for the control of budgeting as well as timely payments to students. In addition, UECD Board Uganda operates with the actual graduates, who are Board Members for 5 years and help find positions for current graduates.
Education is the path out of poverty. Thanks to their career training and education, women can be independent. They can choose their husbands, and as they marry later, have fewer children, and fewer premature infants. There is a far greater chance that all their children will be sent to school. Because of their own career training, they can support siblings, allowing them to be educated as well; parents benefit too; with additional structure and support, they are not forced to give up their land.
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Africa has fascinated and been a constant presence in my life for many years. At the same time, I am convinced that sustainable development arises above all where people are given the opportunity to shape their own future. Education provides one of the most important foundations for this: it opens up prospects, fosters personal responsibility and enables economic independence.
For me, UECD’s work brings precisely these aspects together. Through a sound education, young people in Uganda receive not merely short-term support, but the chance to build long-term prospects through their own efforts and, in doing so, to play a positive role in shaping both their personal lives and the development of their country. I would like to contribute to this through my involvement with UECD.
We are one world and share it with each other. However, resources and opportunities are still unequally distributed. I am happy to work for more justice. Education is the key to achieve it. Furthermore, I find Africa simply fascinating: the people, the landscapes, the animals, the life.
Education opens up new horizons and lays the foundation for shaping one’s own life independently. At the same time, opportunities for a good education are still distributed very unevenly around the world. Through my work with UECD, I want to help give young people in Uganda access to higher education and, in the long term, better professional and personal opportunities. It is particularly important to me that this support has a lasting impact and empowers people to shape their own futures.
The future of young people in Africa should not depend on having to emigrate and leave their country. The fact that UECD offers Ugandans from humble backgrounds a perspective in their own country makes volunteering so valuable to me. To support the funding of studies in Uganda, especially for women, means for me a contribution to the advancement of the individual, the country of Uganda and to the promotion of justice and equal opportunities in the world.
I am convinced that aid for developing nations can only work when the nation being helped does not become more dependent as a result. The core element of help is education, giving people the possibility of helping themselves over the long term. It is precisely this which is the aim of UECD, an aim which I support entirely, for when one invests in youth one is investing in the future of a nation and our world.
The main task of the Board of UECD Uganda is to select students in Uganda who have completed Secondary School II (Advanced Level), and who are, due to personal circumstances, unable to continue with their professional career training. Potential candidates are required to submit a biography they have written themselves; content is checked through interviews with former teachers as well as family members. Through this procedure, students who fulfil the selection criteria of UECD are admitted to the program, and are guided in the achievement of their career goals by the Board of UECD Uganda. During class term, another function of the UECD Uganda Board is to ensure accountability by having all necessary information, such as regards budgets and student accounts, be sent on to the sponsor and to the Board of UECD Switzerland.
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UECD Switzerland
Ackersteinstrasse 79
8049 Zurich
Switzerland
info@uecd.ch
