Under the direction of Barbara Wybar, the Bududa Development Center sits on a campus in rural Uganda, on the slopes of Mount Elgon, just a few miles from the border with Kenya. We operate two programs at present, the Bududa Vocational Institute and the Children of Peace Program. These programs target the major challenges of this region– the plight of orphans and other vulnerable children and the lack of education for teenagers and older adults, particularly women.

Our Children of Peace Program serves the poorest children and orphans. Frequently the orphans have lost parents to AIDS or malaria and have been taken in by an aging grandparent or relative, or are being raised by a sibling, often teenagers themselves. Our Children of Peace Program provides a safety net to over 150 of these local children.

Our second program, the Bududa Vocational Institute, is a full-time school. The Institute teaches useful and practical skills to older orphans, teenagers, and women who have no means to support themselves. Most of these students have had limited education, and without the Institute, have no other opportunity. We now have a staff of 14 Ugandans and we offer programs in tailoring, nursery teacher training, bricklaying and masonry practice, as well as carpentry. In addition we offer short courses in computer keyboarding, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and craft classes for womens’ groups.

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