Nyaka delivers community-driven solutions to uplift orphaned and vulnerable children in rural southwestern Uganda. By empowering grandmothers as primary caregivers, providing healthcare services, and actively working to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence, Nyaka creates a nurturing environment where children can learn, grow, and thrive.
About Nyaka
Nyaka Mission
Nyaka works with communities to nurture and protect children so they can learn, grow, and thrive.
Core Values
Transparency, Accountability, Reasonableness, & Responsiveness
Nyaka Vision
A world where all vulnerable and underserved children have the knowledge, resources, and opportunities they need to grow and prosper.
“Orphaned children don’t have money to pay for school – so we made it free.”
Education breaks barriers of poverty. My mother and father raised five of us, but they struggled because they had no money to send us to school. My father would buy one pencil and break it into five, so each of us could have a piece. Because I had a fifth of the pencil, I ended up at Columbia University.
In 2001 I used $5,000 meant for my house in the US to build a two-room school for the Nyaka community. Our children get uniforms, pencils, and pens. And their pencils have erasers. I never had an eraser.
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Founder and CEO of Nyaka
Cornerstone: The Story of Nyaka.
Support Nyaka
Your gift to Nyaka helps improve the lives of vulnerable children, women, and the elderly in rural communities through education, livelihood programs, healthcare, and support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
