Bududa Learning Center

Mission:

Bududa America Foundation ("BAF") exists to support the operations of Bududa Learning Center (BLC). 

BLC teaches vocational skills to striving young adults, provides social services to orphaned and vulnerable children, and provides micro-finance grants to poor working women. BLC programs are all designed to break the cycle of generational poverty. 

Guiding Values:

Acceptance, tolerance, and inclusivity are the principles on which BLC stands. By offering vocational education, we are creating a more equitable world.

We founded Bududa Learning Center (BLC) to be part of the solution for adolescents in the Bududa District of Uganda. The problem is generational struggle and poverty. Families struggle to meet their most basic needs. This struggle, combined with the geography (where mudslides and other uncontrollable events hinder farming) and the fact that 65% live off subsistence farming and 88% participate in unpaid work, creates a cycle of poverty with little opportunity to break that cycle.

BLC creates a way out of that struggle and helps individuals and families develop careers, businesses, and a way to thrive. BLC is a full-time secondary academy with tailoring, carpentry, bricklaying, nursery education/early childhood development, hairdressing, and motor vehicle repair programs.

Each fully accredited program provides the tools for participants to lift themselves out of poverty through employment or entrepreneurship. Our academy is the only vocational school in the Bududa District of Uganda.

Learn more about our programs here.