1. To promote quality education as the key to development and training for the community by establishing Mifumi Primary School as a centre of learning and of the promotion of equal opportunity, recognition of effort and value of contribution.
2. To reduce household poverty through the provision of credit and savings facilities to women.
3. To promote awareness of and support the rights and needs of women and children particularly those affected by domestic violence and harmful cultural practices.
4. To promote quality of service provision through capacity building both internally and for the partner organisations and to improve the infrastructure of Mifumi.
5. To support the reproductive and sexual health needs of people, particularly women and girls by setting up a modern clinic and maternity unit in Mifumi and providing health services to those affected by HIV/AIDS.
6. To secure funding to maintain existing and start new projects and maintain adequate staffing
7. To provide support and work with PROMPT, the Women's Guild, Local Councils and other grassroots partners in an effort to achieve common goals.
8. To raise awareness of The Mifumi Project's work and development issues in Uganda, to the UK and the International community and organisations in order to encourage participation, networking and build links.

Mifumi Primary School Providing pre-school and primary education, particularly targeting the education of rural girls. This consists of two nursery classes and primary one. A further 5 classrooms have been completed. The classes have been equipped with furniture, textbooks and educational resources. There are seven classes in the school with over 600 children. Two of the classes are still "Tree Classes" where children take lessons under trees.

The Revolving Loans Scheme Promoting the social and economic empowerment of women by providing them with loans to run small businesses. We are running a successful micro-credit scheme with the Nagongera Women's Guild - the largest women's network in the region. The project was initially funded by Comic Relief (1994) with further funds for additional loans and business training for the women coming from the British Government's Department for International Development (DfID). To date we have granted 386 loans.

Domestic Violence Intervention Project The Mifumi Project has established a pilot project with funds from Comic Relief, which is one of the first of its kind in Uganda. The purpose of the project is to promote protection for and support the needs of women experiencing domestic violence by putting in place a number of policy, procedural and practical measures to (1) Provide legal advice, support and advocacy through an Advice centre to meet the needs of women; (2) Run survivor support and education groups for survivors of domestic violence; (3) To mobilise the community to tackle the issues of domestic violence by setting up a Community Safety Forum that will work closely with the police and law enforcement officers to strengthen the message that Domestic Violence is a crime and provide effective measures against perpetrators of violence.

Domestic Violence and Brideprice The Mifumi Domestic Violence and Brideprice project seeks to remove or reduce bride price through interventions which will empower rural women in Uganda to be able to resist this degrading and dehumanising practice. Our work with women on violence and abuse highlighted the fact that bride price is a major contributing factor to violence and abuse in the home. What virtues the institution of bride wealth carried in the past, they have been lost in the present. Rather than cementing the relationship between the families concerned, and providing stability to the marriage, the customary payment of bride wealth now gives the husband proprietary rights over his wife, allowing him to treat her more or less like a chattel. This is especially so because it equates a woman's status in marriage with the amount of bride wealth exchanged and not with her skills and abilities.
Mifumi is one of the ten NGOs in the East of Uganda promoting women's rights as human rights issues. Mifumi submitted a Memorandum to the UK Parliament's Women and Development Committee on domestic violence and has identified that Uganda's National Action Plan for Women by the Ministry of Gender does not provide for domestic violence. A UNICEF report identifies Uganda as having the highest incidence of domestic violence in the world. This project is the first of its kind in Uganda and is funded by The Human Rights Project Fund of The British Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Young Persons Action Against Violence This innovative pilot project is a two-year pilot project funded by the National Lottery Charities Board and extends our work with the women on protection and provision of support, to work in schools with a focus on prevention. The only one of its kind in Uganda, it aims to ensure prevention of interpersonal and gender-based violence in the short and long term through public awareness and education of young people, children, teachers, and the general public.

Mifumi Sexual and Reproductive Community Health Center This project aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health status of the people of Kirewa sub-county. We support women by providing properly trained health workers and traditional birth attendants working with the community in a modern health unit and to address other reproductive and sexual health needs and rights through information, education and lobbying and communication. This project, also funded by the National Lottery Charities Board is being run in partnership between PROMPT and Africare, a leading UK based agency working to support family health.

Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Mifumi has been successful in biding as implementing NGO for the NECDP on behalf of government in Kirewa sub-county, Tororo district. The NECP project is an input into the Uganda National Plan of Action for Children (UNPAC). This project will improve the quality of life of children aged (0-6) together with the people who provide them with the necessary care. The purpose is to improve the nutrition, health, cognitive and psycho-social development of the same children. This project is funded by a World Bank Loan to Uganda.

Leadership and Advocacy for Women The Mifumi Project wants to see that resources are reaching both poor and marginalised people - particularly women. This project is equipping rural based women leaders with skills and knowledge necessary to advocate and lobby for their rights and entitlements to basic services in the community, particularly in advocating against social inequalities and to strengthen their economic capacity through training in business management and project planning. Workshops and training courses will be delivered to Women leaders including district and local councillors and heads of women's organisations. This work complements our capacity building programme to strengthen the partners we work with, particularly the Women's Guild, through management training and support.

Our Values

• We believe in pioneering low cost projects that have a potential for replication
• We believe in working with partner organisations that share a common vision to ourselves. We also work with established committees and involve our users or beneficiaries at all levels of decision, from management to beneficiary
• We value promoting projects that remove barriers and create opportunities for women and girls within an equal opportunities framework. Our equal opportunities policy covers managements, employment practice and service delivery. In promoting equal opportunities for women, we seek particularly to remove obstacles to women's full participation in communities.
• We value working with very poor people or people living in very remote areas to reduce the burden of poverty