Our Mission—Empower
Kibo is not your average nonprofit. We are an international network of friends with a radical vision: To empower every community in the Busoga region of Uganda to holistically and sustainably transform.
Check out our staff sharing about the work Kibo is doing in the video below!
What makes us different?
Sustainable Transformation
Sustainable transformation takes time. We spend months gaining the trust of our partner communities.
Local Empowerment
We empower locals to solve complex problems. Good questions are better than imported solutions!
Community Focused
We work with the whole person and the whole community. Instead of rescuing individuals from bad situations, we change the situation to be better for everyone.
Our Impact
Kibo’s work spans far beyond impressive numbers on a spreadsheet (which we have). Our total impact is more difficult to quantify. It is rooted in community change, in families being repaired, in generational wounds being broken, in relationships being restored.
Holistic
We try our best to have a comprehensive understanding of poverty and wealth. We think it’s important to pay attention to the physical, social, and spiritual dimensions of both human suffering and community flourishing.
Asset-Based
We assume each community has abundant cultural, intellectual, and material assets, even if often unrecognized and underdeveloped. Kibo equips communities to identify and mobilize those existing assets in creative ways.
Sustainable
We pursue progress through long-term cultural participation, education, and reconciliation efforts that produce lasting and locally maintainable results. Our goal is always to phase out and have the community take over.
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