Horizon Youth Empowerment Community Transformation (HYECT) is a not
profit making Community Based Organization (CBO) which was established
in 2008 and registered as a CBO by the government of the Republic of
Uganda and Kamuli District NGO forum.
The organization is located at Kumugoya village, Bumogoli Parish,
Kagulu sub-county in Buyende district (Which was part of Kamuli
district as a constituency named Budiope, now an independent district)
The main objective of the organization is to empower the unemployed
youths, socially, spiritually and economically to enable them
participate in job creation in order to create sustainable change in
their lives.
Other objectives in brief include eradication of poverty, illiteracy,
ignorance, diseases and to develop talents through sports and
performing arts as a way of life.
The organization is also a platform to promote equality within the
community henceforth fighting gender discrimination, racial abuse,
empowering the disabled, fight nepotism of any nature to create
togetherness, unity and harmony.
It is a youth led organization that seeks to address the challenges
facing young people as they best understand these challenge that they
face on a daily basis. Besides, being led by the group of hardworking
youths creates a sense of belonging, comfort, trust, openness and
satisfaction.
The organization runs and intends to create avenues to uplift
positively the lives of the young people by engaging them in a variety
of income generating and life improving activities among which include
farming, animal/bird raring, masonry, skills development, spiritual
building, education, health redress/education and prepare them to
address the numerous challenges that are bound to affect them.
The organization takes pride in involving the entire community in its
projects because it’s the best way it can solve and bring to attention
the problems that affect it’s people, seek solutions and other forms
of mitigations to raised problems.
The organization as a way of being efficient, impactful and
resourceful to the community carries out periodical consultation and
sensitization to be more relevant to the people.
To be able to achieve this members of the community are physically
involved in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the
projects and programs of the organization so that there is
transparency and a direct input from the people, the beneficiaries.
Integrity, transparency and unity are key pillars of this organization
owing it to the fact that its community based driven by the desire to
improve the lives of the youth and pave way for the proper grooming of
children.
