Our story
Kagumu Development Organization (KADO) is a National Membership Organization started in 1998 to respond to limited health services and extensive poverty of the people of Kagumu Sub-county in Kibuku district Uganda. It got registered in 1999 as a Community Based Organization (CBO) and as an NGO in 2004. KADO currently operates in Eastern, northern, Central and west Nile regions of Uganda. Its head office is in Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda. KADO has a branch office in Luwero District in central Uganda and Arua District in west Nile Region.
KADO works with the most vulnerable communities living in extreme poverty, reaching thousands of family members in 32 districts of Uganda. With primary funding from sponsors and government, corporate and individual donors.
We work long-term in communities to help transform themselves into places where children, youth and women can provide what they need to live at their potential throughout their lives: access to health care, nutrition, food security, household incomes and learning opportunities.
Our Mission
To improve the lives of the community by empowering them to participate in social and economic development initiatives.
Our Vision
A self reliant and sustainable community.
Our Values
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Team work.
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Integrity
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Transparency
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Accountability
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Timeliness.
Partners we have worked with
European Development Fund)
Ministry of Health- Uganda
PROJECT: Distribution Of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets (LLINs) at a cost of UGX 157,000,000
TASO Uganda
PROJECT: Supporting Uganda’s Malaria Reduction Strategy (UGA-M-TASO) funded by the Global Fund for malaria, HIV and TB at a cost of UGX 7,030,259,833
Mérieux Foundation
Private Sector Foundation Uganda-SDF program
PROJECT: Groundnuts value addition skills enhancement project
Research Triangle Institute (RTI)
PROJECT: : HIV awareness in Pallisa district
The King Baudouin Foundation
PROJECT: Nike Red: HIV/AIDS prevention and management empowerment among primary schools’ girl child in Pallisa District at a cost of €140,690
Global Giving
PROJECT: 1. Retain Orphan Girl Children in Schools in Uganda at a cost of $85,106
2. Prevent malaria infection from pregnant women and children less than five years in Uganda.
USAID RHITES EC
PROJECT: Enhancement of uptake of health services in central and Eastern Uganda at a cost of $114,898
Uganda civil society fund
PROJECT 2010: Scaling HIV /AIDS prevention and management at community level @ a cost of UGX 46,107,750