What We Do
Nyaka Canada is a registered charity (charity # 785719543 RR 0001) led by a voluntary board, that believes education is at the heart of changing lives and breaking the cycle of poverty.
We partner with rural communities in southwest Uganda to provide sponsorships for students to receive a quality education and for grandmother home projects to ensure grandmother caregivers and their biological and non-biological grandchildren have adequate and structurally sound shelter.
Poverty levels for these communities remain high with families earning on average $2.04 per day, below the World Bank figure for extreme poverty of $2.38 per day.
Some of the Board members have witnessed the transformational power of education through sponsoring students from NAOP over the years and other members come from neighbouring districts in southwest Uganda.
The Board understands the challenges faced in this region and the need to promote education that is inclusive, relevant and of high quality.
Background
Nyaka Canada works with the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project (NAOP) in southwest Uganda.
Founded by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri in 2001 to ensure economically poor, orphaned and vulnerable children from his community have the opportunity to receive an education for a better outcome and are nurtured and cared for within their communities.
Today NAOP has transformed from a two-roomed classroom of 55 students into a student body of over 700 students learning in three schools across two districts. Rooted in a holistic community-based approach, NAOP assists a network of 20,000 grandmother caregivers who self govern and lead 254 grandmother groups across the southwestern rural landscape.
33 Grandmother recipients received garden hoes
11 Grandmother recipients received solar lamps (only 10 pictured)
Celebrating NY CA's Women Board members on International Womens Day 2023
Nyaka Canada Board Member Nadine's visist to the NAOP offices in Kampala
Nyaka Canada Chair Graham with Nyaka and VIU Alum Shirah and Jackson (NAOP)
Jackson Kagui (NAOP) meets with NY CA West Coast Board Members
Jackson Kaguri (NAOP) speaks with students at VIU Nanaimo Campus Oct 2022
Nyaka Canada welcomes Jackson Kaguri (NAOP) to VIU Nanaimo Campus, Oct 2022
Newly Constructed Latrine
Traditional Pit Latrine
Newly Constructed Kitchen
Traditional Kitchen
Newly Constructed Home
Traditional Home
Grandmothers dancing and in celebration
Home project construction with local materials
Grandmother with her goats
Grandmother making handicrafts
Grandmother Friendships
Grandmother and grandson
Grandmother with her grandchildren
Nyaka Primary Students tending to the vegetable garden
Kutamba Students at recess
NVSS students fetching water from a protected spring
Brick laying and Concrete practice vocational students
Breakfast at Nyaka Primary School
NVSS students in the computer lab
NVSS students in session
Tailoring and Design Vocational students
Skipping during recess at Nyaka Primary School
Kutamba Primary School
Playtime during recess at Nyaka Primary School
Headteacher Lydia with Nyaka Primary School students
Nyaka Primary School student in class
Nyaka Vocational Secondary School Campus
Kutamba Primary School Campus
Nyaka Primary School Campus
Mother with baby carrying matooke
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
The Enengo Valley, Southwest Uganda
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
Thank You for your support in 2024
11 Grandmother recipients received solar lamps (only 10 pictured)
Tesitmonial Peace Rutahamwa Grandmother solar lamp recipient
Testimonial Clementina Tibamwenda Grandmother solar lamp recipient
33 Grandmother recipients received garden hoes
Testimonial Jeremina Kaykute Grandmother garden hoe recipient
Grandmother Tumusiime Adrine’s new home (house, kitchen and pit latrine)
15 Kutamba Primary school student meals
20 NVSS student enjoying a school lunch
20 Nyaka Primary School student meals
Three Kutamba Primay students enjoying a school meal
15 1st graders students at Nyaka Primary School receive school uniforms
Three Nyaka Primary students enjoy a school meal
Five NVSS students enjoying a school meal
Breakfast at Nyaka Primary School
Early Morning at Kutamba Primary School
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
NVSS students in session
NVSS students in the computer lab
The Enengo Valley, Southwest Uganda
Kutamba Primary School Campus
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
Kutamba Primary School Campus
The Enengo Valley, Southwest Uganda
NVSS students in the computer lab
NVSS students in session
Kigezi sub region, Southwest Uganda
Early Morning at Kutamba Primary School
Breakfast at Nyaka Primary School