To promote sexual rights and reproductive health and services for marginalized LGBTIQ + persons in Uganda and Africa

WaLAI was ideally formed in 2018 and incorporated on the 1st  day of October, 2019 as a company limited by guarantee with the registrar of companies under companies Act of the Republic of Uganda. Since its inception, WALAI’s aim has always been to stand for Sexual, Health and Human rights of LGBTIQ+ individuals. The activities we carryout range from capacity building to service delivery, with focus remaining on marginalized persons (LGBTIQ+ persons) whereas in terms of operations what characterizes WaLAI’s functioning are its efforts to involve LGBTIQ+ persons when initiating activities. WALAI currently operates in three districts in central Uganda; Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso.
 

MISSION:

To enhance access to health care services for marginalized persons, empowering them economically, advocating for them and creating human rights awareness in Uganda. 

VISION:

A transformed society where LGBTIQ+ persons enjoy their rights and freedoms without any stigma and discrimination. 

GOAL: 

To improve on the well being of LGBTIQ+ persons in Uganda and abroad through community mobilization, capacity building and advocacy.

CORE VALUES:

• Respect
• Accountability
• Punctuality
• Innovativeness
• Integrity

OBJECTIVES:

• To promote sexual rights and reproductive health and services for marginalized LGBTIQ+ persons in Uganda.
• To educate LGBTIQ+ persons in Uganda on their human rights through workshops, training and seminars including outreaches.
• To provide temporally shelter to the homeless LGBTIQ+ persons pushed to the margins of the society.
• To promote talents among LGBTIQ+ persons through the performing arts.
• To economically empower the LGBTIQ+ persons through equipping them with technical skills that could support their livelihoods.
• To promote access to HIV prevention, treatment and care services for LGBTIQ+ persons and working with stakeholders with similar objectives.
• To train and empower peers who shall be vocal in creating awareness of how the lives of the LGBTIQ+ persons can be improved in Uganda.

OUR SCOPE OF WORK:

• Access to Healthcare
• Economic empowerment
• Human rights awareness
• Safe shelter for homeless LGBTIQ+ persons
• Psychosocial support
• Promoting talents of LGBTIQ+ individuals

ORGANIZATION BENEFICIARIES:

Our beneficiaries are the Ugandan LGBTIQ+ persons and LGBTIQ+ refugees of 18-35 years of age and who are pushed to the margins of the society

WHAT WE DO

Economic Empowerment:

Illiteracy levels of LGBTIQ+ persons in Uganda are very high due to the continuous dropping out of schools due to various reasons in regards to their sexuality and gender identity. This makes many of them to fit to compete for white collar jobs and resulting into unemployment.

Wave of Legacy Alliance Initiative Uganda has always been working tirelessly to overcome this challenge through empowering these people economically by training them with skills which can help them start up some small-scale businesses or approaching other employment spaces.

Towards the end of last year 2020, WALAI carried out a needs assessment program from all its beneficiaries and all those that we reach out to. In this assessment we realized that there were very many unemployed LGBTIQ+ persons in Uganda due to illiteracy whereby many of these lacked skillful knowledge to start up their own businesses and many didn’t get a chance or were denied their rights to Education and they couldn’t fit to compete for office jobs.

WAVE OF LEGACY ALLIANCE INITIATIVE came up with a skills training program where we introduced technical courses like bakery and cookery, computer training, tailoring and liquid soap making. In these training programs, we targeted a number of 20 beneficiaries but we gave continued to train different people due to the high demand of these services from the people we serve.

We have also managed to add on other programs like poultry and books making.