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Our Areas of Work

Seven connected areas of work guide how the Association turns friendship between Uganda and Chongqing into practical service to communities.

Health and Medical SupportEducation and Child DevelopmentVulnerable Children and FamiliesLivelihoods and Economic EmpowermentAgriculture and Food SecurityWater, Sanitation and Community HealthHumanitarian Assistance
A doctor examining a child with a stethoscope during a community health outreach in Uganda

Health and Medical Support

The Association seeks to build partnerships between Chongqing and Uganda that can provide practical support where it is most needed — from community outreach to specialist medical missions and institutional partnerships.

Community outreach: Community medical outreaches, health screening, and maternal and child health interventions.

Facility support: Support for underserved health facilities and mobilisation of appropriate medical equipment and supplies.

Health education: Health education and disease-prevention programmes for communities.

Institutional partnerships: Specialist medical missions, training for Ugandan health professionals, and partnerships between hospitals and medical universities in Uganda and Chongqing.

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Children attending an outdoor rural classroom in Kibale, Uganda

Education and Child Development

The Association gives particular attention to children and young people whose education is threatened by poverty or difficult family circumstances — through scholarships, scholastic materials, school infrastructure, digital learning and mentorship.

School fees & scholarships: School fees and scholarship support for carefully identified vulnerable learners, plus scholastic materials.

School infrastructure: Support for school infrastructure, digital learning, computer access, and improved libraries and learning spaces.

Vocational education: Vocational and technical education, alongside mentorship and career guidance.

Institutional partnerships: Partnerships between schools and universities in Uganda and Chongqing.

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Vulnerable Children and Families

The Association supports vulnerable children and families through interventions that address both immediate needs and longer-term stability — including emergency assistance, school retention, basic household needs and livelihood support for caregivers.

Immediate needs: Emergency assistance, basic household needs and support for children facing severe economic hardship.

School retention: Support that helps children remain in school despite pressure on the household.

Family strengthening: Family-strengthening initiatives and livelihood support for caregivers.

Path to self-reliance: Skills, agricultural inputs, a small enterprise or vocational training that helps a family stand on its own feet.

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Livelihoods and Economic Empowerment

Uganda has a young and energetic population, but many young people and households need access to skills, tools, markets and opportunities that can turn effort into income. Chongqing can offer more than financial donations — its experience in manufacturing, vocational training, agriculture, technology and industry can be connected to Ugandan communities.

Vocational & digital skills: Vocational and technical skills, digital and technical skills, and access to appropriate tools and equipment.

Enterprise support: Youth entrepreneurship, women’s livelihood initiatives and small-business development.

Agriculture & trades: Agricultural enterprises, poultry and livestock projects, tailoring, fabrication, mechanics and other practical trades.

Knowledge transfer from Chongqing: Training, equipment and knowledge transfer connecting Chongqing’s manufacturing and vocational expertise to Ugandan communities.

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A sunflower field supporting the local economy in Uganda

Agriculture and Food Security

Small farmers often struggle with productivity, post-harvest losses, limited irrigation, poor-quality inputs, weak market access and inadequate processing. The Association creates practical partnerships that improve household and community food security.

Smallholder farming & livestock: Smallholder farming, poultry and livestock production, and irrigation and water access.

Skills & inputs: Agricultural skills, access to improved inputs and agricultural machinery.

Post-harvest & value addition: Post-harvest handling, farmer organisation and value addition.

Community food security: Practical partnerships that improve household and community food security.

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A community water pump

Water, Sanitation and Community Health

Poor access to safe water affects health, education, household income and the amount of time women and children spend collecting water. The Association supports boreholes, rainwater harvesting, safe-water storage and sanitation facilities in schools and communities.

Water access: Boreholes and community water systems, rainwater harvesting and safe-water storage.

Sanitation facilities: Sanitation facilities in schools and communities.

Hygiene education: Hygiene education and menstrual health and hygiene support.

Facility water solutions: Water solutions for health and education facilities.

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Humanitarian food aid distribution in Africa

Humanitarian Assistance

Flooding, landslides, fire, disease outbreaks, displacement and other crises can quickly push already vulnerable households into severe hardship. The Association seeks to develop the capacity to mobilise support from Uganda and China when genuine humanitarian needs arise.

Emergency relief: Food, clothing, shelter materials, hygiene supplies, medical assistance and other essential relief.

Rapid mobilisation: Capacity to mobilise support from Uganda and China when genuine humanitarian needs arise.

Need and dignity: Assistance provided on the basis of need and dignity, never publicity.

Accountability: Careful accountability in how emergency assistance is identified, verified and delivered.

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