The Katega Community Center is a cross-cultural effort to uplift one of Uganda's most remote, impoverished regions by providing holistic solutions to enhance social, economic, and physical wellbeing.
The village of Katega in the Mubende District of Uganda is one of the most rural areas of the nation and resultantly struggles with many aspects of poverty culture - water scarcity, lack of medical provision, lack of health education and poor educational resources.
Pumziko Africa is a Ugandan based nonprofit organization with a mission to bring “Pumziko” (rest of the soul/spirit) to Africans living in poverty, adopting Katega Village into it’s scope of ministry in 2015. They began to work with local community members and leadership to start the Livelihood & Sustainability Project (LSP) - a self-sustaining goat farm that will provide families with entrepreneurial activity outside of the harvest season.
Point One Vision started to work with Pumziko Africa in 2019 for shared Christmas outreaches in other areas of Uganda before joining in on the LSP. In 2023, that project was completed with the arrival of the Point One Vision Uganda SERVE team who also introduced fitness as a tool for building community and improving mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. This moment inspired vision for the future of the Katega Community Center as a central gathering place for the community to experience what it means not just to survive, but to thrive.
As of Spring 2025, we are stepping into the next phase of this project - to drill and install a solar-powered fresh water source and construct a new school. We need $150,000 to complete these projects and ask you to consider partnering with us. We’re also connecting our community with school-age children awaiting sponsorships for an education that you can learn more about HERE.
here’s why what we’re doing is important:
Long-term solutions: The Good Samaritan Primary School of Katega village was set up by our Ugandan ministry partners as a temporary solution nearly a decade ago - partitioned “classrooms” between wooden poles and tin sheets that could serve about 40 to 50 students. We’ve recently been able to make some minor updates with wood siding, temporary desks and additional “rooms,” but a larger and permanent structure will mean being able to serve as many as 500 students in the surrounding area and creating jobs for staff and teachers in a community that largely lives on seasonal, agricultural income.
Life-saving intervention: The clean water well historically servicing Katega village is broken and beyond repair, so this community has collected its water instead from a stale pond 4km away. As a natural result, Katega is continuing to see alarming increases in water-borne diseases and death including typhoid, cholera, dysentery, malaria, diarrhea and Hepatitis A. We have had a land survey completed that identified water directly beneath the area of the Katega Community Center as a viable option for clean water solutions.
Hope for a future: Education and quality of life means that the next generation of those living in Katega village have the privilege of hoping for a greater future where the culture of poverty in this region might be alleviated. Primary education is seen as a tremendous gift among Ugandan families and means the possibility University admission, jobs and the ability to sew resources back into this community for generations to come.
If you’d like to have access to more details on this project as you decide how to partner with us, please feel free to reach out:
info@pointonevision.com
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We’ve just launched our Katega Kids Scholarship Program, meaning that you could have a direct and personal impact on the life of a child in Katega village.
Hand Up, Not Hand Out
Our African partnerships are built on the principle of empowering locals to change poverty culture from the inside out. When you partner with us on this project, you positively impact Ugandan cultural leaders to thrive in the good things that they’re already doing.
SERVE Uganda: experience africa!
We’ve been working with Nets4Life and Pumziko Africa since our inception and our mission in Uganda is to equip our African partners with the community, funds, tools and resources to change their culture from the inside out.
In 2023, our SERVE team completed the Livelihood and Sustainability Project which now provides entrepreneurial opportunity to the remote village community of Katega in the Mubende District.
Our vision is to build an entire community center that will serve once of the most remote parts of Africa, not just for its survival, but so that it can thrive in the fullness of joy, too.
We do not have plans at this time for sending a team to Uganda in 2025. Make sure to sign up to join our newsletter if you want to be in the loop on project updates and future team applications!