About us
A community based organisation built on the belief that our neighbours deserve more.
Registered charity CR/045/2023, founded in 2021, working across Tororo District, Uganda.
Our history
Started in 2021, rooted in Tororo
Machika Foundation is a registered charity, number CR/045/2023, founded in 2021. The Foundation implements projects and activities that promote economic empowerment, education, water and sanitation, social development and environment conservation among rural and poor communities.
Machika Foundation exists because of the belief that our community is incredibly vulnerable, needs a hand, and deserves quality programs and services.
From the founder
Hon. Richard Owere Machika
Founder, Machika Foundation
Hon. Richard Owere Machika is the Member of Parliament for West Budama North East Constituency in Tororo District. He started Machika Foundation as a way to turn the trust and support of the community into lasting, practical help — clean water, education, livelihoods and a healthier environment.
The Foundation is his commitment to service beyond politics: working directly with the people of Tororo to build the kind of community everyone deserves.
“My work in Parliament gives me a voice. Machika Foundation gives that voice hands — to dig, to teach, to plant, and to lift our people up.”
Mission
Machika Foundation provides a comprehensive and sustainable reprieve of poverty, ill health, lack of skills and capacity, misfortune, disability, destitution, biodiversity loss and hopelessness experienced by individuals, communities and the environment — in partnership with organisations involved in the same.
Vision
We exist to address the causes of poverty, water challenges, poor education and skills, biodiversity loss and marginalisation — and their consequences.
What guides us
Our values
Community first
Projects are designed with the people who will use them, not for them. Need assessment comes before any activity.
Sustainability
We look for reprieve that lasts — repaired water sources, skills, and income that outlive a single donation.
Partnership
We work alongside government, local structures and organisations pursuing the same outcomes in Uganda.
Accountability
As a registered charity, we report on what was funded, what was delivered, and who it reached.
Areas of focus