Caritas Uganda (Caritas Switzerland in Uganda)

Caritas Uganda was founded in 1970 and is the overall coordinating body for the socio-economic development of the Uganda Episcopal Conference. The agency’s main functions are in areas of social services, development and advocacy with the main goal of providing emergency relief and rehabilitation, poverty eradication, HIV/AIDS prevention, improving community livelihood, promoting good governance, enhance organisational development and peacebuilding. Central to their work is to foster sustained development solutions by working with and through local partners and the Caritas network to help Ugandans identify and address the root causes of poverty and injustice affecting their lives.