Stichting Uruma is a Netherlands based international humanitarian non-partisan and non-governmental organization registered in Boxtel, Netherlands. The organization has an ANBI Status with the RSIN number: 8567.14.537. The organization works in post war African countries including Burundi and Uganda to provide education, health care and economic empowerment for children, young people and women.
Stichting Uruma is a growing network of passionate individuals using grassroots techniques to develop and implement programs that help alleviate the suffering of women and children affected by war or living in difficult circumstances and to empower them to reach their full potential.
Empowering vulnerable children and women in post-war torn areas through access to education, health care and economic empowerment.
Empowered and self -reliant population in post war affected areas in Africa.
Stichting Netherlands was founded in 2017 by a Burundian civil war survivor Francine
Uwera, a Burundian national while she was still seeking her asylum in the Netherlands.
After gaining political asylum in the Netherlands, Francine remained painfully aware of
the many challenges children and women were facing in Burundi and other African
countries, and she wanted to do something to have a transformative impact on them
and help them to break the cycle of diseases, ignorance and poverty.
The organization implements its activities in East African region in the program
countries of Burundi and Uganda through a network of passionate individuals using
grassroots techniques to develop and implement programs that help alleviate the
suffering of women, youth and children affected by war or living in difficult
circumstances and to empower them to reach their full potential. To this extent, since
2017, Stichting Uruma has so far engaged over 3000 people in its program activities
both in Burundi and Uganda.
The organization now boasts of its passionate and active
network of implementing partners in both the community and institutions of learning. It
has 3 founding directors at its headquarters in Boxtel, Netherlands and 3 volunteer staff.
In Burundi, it has 6 volunteer staff and in Uganda, it has so far 4. Both the directors in
the Netherlands and its volunteer staff in Europe and East Africa are educated, skilled,
talented and highly energetic people with a strong foundation of work ethics and
responsibility.
The organization started its active operations in 2018, with a Needs Assessment conducted in
the Busoga sub-region in the eastern part of Uganda, which was led by Moses Kintu,
Secretary to Stichting Uruma Board and thereafter, with support from Jose Van Gool – Family,
the organization made a donation of scholastic materials to Buwagi Primary School in Buzaya
county in Kamuli District, Uganda.
Stichting Uruma Uganda donated scholastic materials, food stuff and clothes to an orphanage
at Guma Na Yesu Ministries, Kimaka in Mbarara district, Uganda.
Stichting Uruma in partnership with Students for Global Democracy Uganda also made a
donation of food stuff to Christian Restoration Outreach, a street kids outreach centre in Mbale
and Jinja districts.
In Feb 2020, Stichting Uruma Uganda conducted a visit to Ester Kindergaten, a remote and
impoverished kindergaten in Bukakata landing Site on Masaka road.
The purpose of the visit
was to find out what was needed to help develop the kindergarten.
In July 2020, with support from Jumbo Supermarket Boxtel, Netherlands, Stichting Uruma
Burundi reached out to flood victims in Burundi. Over 200 families temporarily camped at
Gatumba received a donation of laundry soap. A total of 2000 people were affected by the
heavy rains in the neighborhood of Lake Tanganyika.
In September 2020, Stichting Uruma Burundi with a generous donation from Jose van Gool –
Family, Netherlands, again reached out to another batch of 400 Burundi Lake Tanganyika
flood victims with a donation of laundry soap and clothes at Kinyinya quartier in Gatumba zone
in Bujumbura, Burundi.
