25th Anniversary Trip
2025 marks 25 years since Amigos began, and we are looking forward to celebrating! As part of our plans for marking the year, we are offering our supporters the opportunity to join us on a very special trip to Uganda…
Inspiring Ongoing Transformation
Supporting disadvantaged people to work their way out of poverty and thrive
UPCOMING EVENT
Young Hearts, Fresh Starts
Date: 06 November 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Join us online on Wednesday 6th November 7-8pm (UK time) to hear how Amigos walks alongside young people in rural communities, including the returned Kira Farm graduates, inspiring them all to reach their full potential and be catalysts for change in their communities.
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AMIGOS - What we do
Amigos Worldwide works alongside people and communities in rural Uganda, inspiring sustainable change through vocational training, conservation farming, infrastructure development and supporting the most vulnerable.
Turning Point
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Rebuilding Life in the Community
Read MoreWith many of the communities we work with having experienced the trauma of civil war, struggling with food insecurity, being damaged by domestic violence and being unable to access clean water, many lives are desperate, fragile and fearful.
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How you can help
- Sponsor a Family
- Choose a programme
- Fundraise for us
- Become an ambassador
- Leave a gift in your will
- Sponsor a Family
Sponsor a family
Our unique family sponsorship programme is child sponsorship with a difference. It does more than just help a child go to school – it provides training to the child’s caregiver too.Find out more
- Choose a project
Kira Farm Development Centre
Kira Farm Development Centre occupies 22 acres of lush land in southern Uganda. Every year, 50 young people come to Kira Farm, where their lives are transformed.
Sustainable Community Development
Our unique community development programme is designed to equip entire communities with the skills, resources and infrastructure to create long-term, sustained change.
Sponsor a Family
Our unique family sponsorship programme is child sponsorship with a difference. It does more than just help a child go to school – it provides training to the child’s caregiver too.
- Fundraise for us
Fundraise for us
Whether it’s on the top of your bucket list, you want to push your limits, or you just love sharing your skills and time with others, by fundraising for Amigos you will change lives and help to spread the word about the work that we do.Find out more
- Become an ambassador
Become an ambassador
Our Ambassadors champion Amigos in a range of ways, from fundraising to speaking to sharing about our work on social media.Find out more
- Leave a gift in your will
Leave a gift in your will
By leaving a gift in your Will, you will be helping some of Uganda’s poorest work their own way out of poverty with dignity.Find out more
“Amigos demonstrates excellent integrity and value for money in delivering its relevant, up-to-date and transformative programmes.”
Christopher Sebatta
Makerere University, External Evaluator, September 2023
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UK Church Toolkit for Community Development – Event
On Saturday 5 October, we will be launching our UK Toolkit in Holy Trinity Barnstaple, as a resource to help churches serve their local communities. It is packed with principles and stories from our work with Ugandan churches to help us learn. This…
Visit to Amigos Uganda
This month, three members of the Amigos UK team, Tim, Jodie and Kayte, visited Uganda, spending time on Kira Farm Development Centre and visiting Masindi to see Amigos’ work partnering with local communities.
Cooking Becomes Healthy
Anna explains how the traditional household cooking method in Uganda is unhealthy and thankfully also how the energy saving stove solves the problem.
The larger heart, the kindlier hand
In the process of writing this article I’ve had cause to read through some of the Christmas broadcasts and I’ve been struck by the consistent simplicity of her message – be kind, love, and serve. Every year she spoke of the…
Building Back Better
On February 3rd 2005, the late and great Nelson Mandela gave a speech in London’s Trafalgar Square at the campaign to end poverty in the developing world. His words sounded a clarion call to rise to the task before us,…
Make Farming History
Here, part way through the agricultural season we hear from Beatrice who has been putting the conservation farming principles to work.
No Meaning No Hope.
George Finds his Place in Life and the Community Being unwanted or excluded is something that hits us hard in the core of our being. Our identity is damaged and our chances of succeeding in life are seriously diminished. We…
Girls Deserve an Education. Period.
For people living in poverty, in the developing world, where talking about periods is taboo and there is limited access to clean, running water and most people only possess one set of clothes, having a period is life limiting.
