Explore the different Funds you could donate to
Donate to the UMYDF-Endowment Fund
UMYDF-Endowment Fund - Please give generously to the Endowment Fund. Unlike donations to other types of funds, donations to the Endowment Fund are reinvested to grow them, earn revenue, and contribute to the organisation’s mission in perpetuity.
A donation to the Endowment Fund is legacy giving, whose benefits are designed to live beyond a donor’s lifetime. The Endowment Fund receives both cash and non-cash donations.
Donate to any of our PREVENT-focused Funds
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Research Fund – Your donation to the Research Fund is the most valuable resource that enables us to understand the complexities of Peace and Conflict problems, ultimately enhancing our programming decision-making capabilities. Armed with research evidence and facts, we are in best position to allocate all other resources appropriately - where they will achieve the highest impact.
- Peace Meals Fund – Agents of anarchy and violent conflict thrive on promoting stereotypes, suspicion, and disunity among people. The Peace Meals Fund is a newly created PREVENT-focused fund dedicated to organising and financing Annual Peace Meals for people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. The principal objective is to create a platform for greater awareness, understanding and strengthening social cohesion between unlike groups in our society. When people know and regularly interact with one another, strong bonds are created that cannot easily be exploited to fuel conflict. So, by donating to this fund, you are helping us build unified communities that are harder to infiltrate with ideas of violence. You are directly strengthening community defences against violence, One Meal and One Relationship at a Time.
- Vocational Skilling and Livelihood Fund – While lack of educational and economic opportunities isn’t the only factor at play in driving people to engage in violent activities, one of the key findings of the UNDP Report of 2017 was that economic factors can be significant drivers, with economic exclusion, unemployment and limited opportunities for upward mobility leading to alienation or frustration, which can result in radicalisation leading to violent extremism. Indeed, statistical data suggests the existence of a strong correlation between violence and income inequality (Dixon, 2009). Unemployment provides a fertile ground for recruitment by violent extremist organisations since they can provide a route out of poverty through promising economic opportunities that are not readily available through more legitimate means. By donating to our Vocational Skilling and Livelihood Fund, you’re not only giving a gift of knowledge with perpetual benefits, but also enabling us expand much needed educational and livelihood development opportunities for people from poor and underserved backgrounds. Your gift will help expand our work at Katwe Vocational Skills Centre which has equipped over 900 slum and refugee youth with vocational and business skills since 2017. It will also enable us expand The Elevate Youth Apprenticeship Programme which also serves youth in marginalised and underserved communities.
- Peace Education Fund - Peace Education is the process of acquiring the values, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviours to live in harmony with oneself and others. Through school based Peace Clubs, we have so far delivered over 200 lessons on peace, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation to over 7,000 high school youth, and reached many more through Peace Club outreach activities. This work has yielded much fruit; it has taught young people about the importance of peacebuilding, and equipped them with practical knowledge and skills to resolve conflicts that emerge in their schools and homes in non-violent ways. With your support to our Peace Education Fund, we plan to expand these actions significantly, establishing more peace clubs in all levels of school, starting Community based Peace Clubs, and delivering lessons to strengthen the capacities of Peace and Security practitioners through our newly established Peace Learning Centre. It’s a worthy gift of knowledge.
- Peace Gala and Awards - Teaching young people about peace in the last decade has taught us that there was a gap in documenting the stories of eminent leaders that youth could emulate in the field of peacebuilding – this led to birth of the idea of the Peace Gala and Awards. Anchored in the whole of society and whole of government approaches to advancing peace, the Peace Gala and Awards are a Peace Exhibition and Ideas exchange forum for thought leaders and innovators in the fields of Peace, Security, and Humanitarian work. At its climax, the gala features a premier awards event that celebrates grassroots, national, and international actors with outstanding achievements and contributions to the fields of Peace, Security, and Humanitarian work. By co-sponsoring the next Peace Gala and Awards, you are helping shine a light on more local peace heroes that youth and children can emulate within their own communities because lives well lived inspire our own.
- Youth Interfaith Peace Gardens - Currently being piloted in Bugiri and Mayuge districts in Eastern Uganda, the Youth Interfaith Peace Gardens were established to challenge and demystify religiously biased narratives used by violent extremists to recruit youth into their groups. It is one thing to be told about the values and attitudes of a particular religious or cultural group by someone else but it’s also a completely different experience when you learn and work with people of such groups and experience firsthand what their culture or religion is really all about. The Youth Interfaith Peace Gardens bring together youth from 7 religious sects of both Islam and Christianity to learn about peace, interfaith cooperation, and also collaborate to establish a Peace Garden in their community. Just like a garden made of unlike flowers, the gardening experiences not only help youth appreciate the beauty of diversity, but also break down barriers and stereotypes that the youth have about one another - forging lasting friendships. Today both pilot peace gardens are a living monument to the ideals of interfaith cooperation and friendship. Your gift helps us ensure the gardens remain vibrant and well maintained even in dry season, and will also enable us to expand this great example to other communities around the continent.
- Women, Peace and Security Fund – By supporting this fund, you provide much needed resources that enable us accelerate the unique contribution of women to the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peacebuilding. Other than having unique experiences with violent conflict by virtue of their gender, and socially constructed gender roles, women sit at various levels of influence in their communities which if leveraged can have a great multiplier effect on efforts to advance peace in our communities.
- Youth, Peace and Security Fund - Today’s generation of youth is the largest the world has ever known, and by virtue of their numbers young people often form the majority of the population of countries affected by armed conflict. By donating to our Youth, Peace and Security fund, you help us ensure that young people are not exploited as perpetrators of violence, and are neither bystanders as their communities are ruined. Your gift enables us to equip youth with knowledge, skills, and tools to actively participate in the prevention, and peaceful resolution of conflicts in their communities.
- Civic Education Fund – Your donation to the Civic Education Fund enables us advance inclusive civic education that seeks to increase awareness, engagement, and participation of marginalised populations in governance and policymaking, enhance public trust and confidence of marginalised populations in the ability of elected officials to govern and realise policy changes that are responsive to their needs, and generally improve perceptions of marginalised communities towards the political process. This is because violence tends to thrive in communities and nations characterised by poor governance, corruption, violation of human rights, violation of the rule of law, and suffocation of the people’s voice. On one hand such environments cause frustration, and hopelessness among citizens who may easily opt for violent means as a way to seek the attention of the political elite toward their issues. On the other hand, violent actors like violent extremists also actively seek to exploit state repression and other grievances in their fight against the state.
Donate to any of our DEFUSE-focused Funds
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Conflict Emergency and Stabilisation Fund - When a conflict erupts, we work with partner peacebuilders in affected communities to ensure civilians have the basic life necessities to cope. Beyond this, we work with grassroots partners to critically analyse the different dimensions of the conflict in question, brainstorm short and medium-term solutions, and begin to pilot interventions and actions that prevent escalation. With your support, explosive conflict situations can de-escalate, and lives and livelihoods can be secured.
- Emergency Food Fund – Food is a key life necessity, and yet becomes harder to access in times of violent and armed conflict. If this is an issue that is closer to your heart, please donate to this fund today, so we can be more prepared for tomorrow’s emergencies.
- School Supplies Fund – It said that it doesn’t matter who wins or loses a war, children will always be the losers. Their lost childhood and years of education can never be recovered. By donating to this fund, we can together ensure that children enrolled in school in times of emergences have the basic school supplies they need to keep learning.
- The Clothing Fund – Violence provokes so much confusion and chaos, and many do not have a chance to pack any belongings. Through this fund you can help us ensure that those running from violent conflict have clothing to preserve their human dignity and that of their children.
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The Shelter Fund – As safety nets breakdown in times of crisis, you can inspire hope through contributing materials for the establishment of emergency shelters to house families escaping from the wrath of violent and armed conflict.
Donate to any of our REBUILD-focused Funds
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Fund for Victims of Torture – Non-state actors have perpetrated serious violations of human rights law including torture and maiming of unarmed civilians. Some state actors have also similarly committed significant rule of law and human rights violations including torture of suspects in their quest to suppress violent uprisings and violent extremist activities. In many cases, the tortured have later been proven innocent yet they have been exposed to numerous forms of traumatising experiences with some causing physical disfiguring, and chronic health complications. Such traumatic events not only place a heavy burden on the individuals that experience torture and abuse, but also place a heavy burden on families, and communities that support them as they recover from the after-effects of their experiences. Your donation to this fund will enable us source for and provide high quality mental, social, and economic support services to help the victims, their families, and communities to rebuild their lives and to seek redress for the abuses they’ve been exposed to.
- Fund for Survivors of Terrorism and Associated Families – To address existing gaps in provision of support to survivors of terrorism, and family members of survivors and victims of terrorism or mass violence, your support to this fund enables us offer practical solutions and support services to help survivors and family members cope and begin to heal.
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Fund for Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Perpetrators of Violence – Your donation enables us to develop rehabilitative programmes that respond to the rehabilitation needs of former perpetrators of violence including terrorist fighters, supporting them to lead law-abiding lives, reduce re-offending and protect society.
