HEARTILY SOULS LEADERSHIP

Heartily Souls is led by a dedicated group of volunteers both in Uganda and in the United States. Our board members come from a wide-variety of backgrounds but they all of something in common, they are 100 percent dedicated to helping underserved youth and want to create better opportunities for youth who lack enhanced educational opportunities.

Heartily Souls, Inc is currently searching for new board members both in Uganda and in the United States.  We are particularly interested in connecting with people who have prior board experience and who have backgrounds in marketing and fundraising.  If you are interested in learning more about our organization and what serving on our board entails, we invite you to contact us via email.

Kenneth K kalibbala

 DIRECTOR

Kenneth has a background in educational planning and management. Has touched the lives and hearts of many youths. He has volunteered at many nonprofit organizations and wants to help those less fortunate. Currently, Kenneth is an essential worker assisting and touching the lives of many elderly people and people with disabilities.

David W Magezi

Teddy Namatovu

Teddy is a team member/ secretary of Heartily Souls Community Association in Kikubanimba. She brings social relations and communication to Heartily Souls. She is a proud Elementary teacher by profession and has interacted with children for over ten years. She has pleasure in interacting with Ugandan children from all backgrounds. When Teddy is not involved with any work, she enjoys watching movies.

Stacey Roberts-OHR, 

 Stacey Roberts-Ohr is the Development Director for Heartily Souls. She helps with individual fundraising. She has a passion for non-profit administration.

Allen Kabali

Allen is a director of Heartily Souls Community Association – Uganda. She brings immense knowledge, account management and experience of working with children of all backgrounds to Heartily Souls. She has a passion for supporting youth and communities in need. When Allen is not involved with any work, she enjoys listening to music and watching football.

Masembe Winton

Winton is team member. Heartily Souls community association-Uganda.

His interest is to bring change to the lives of children who have limited resources He serves as an on-ground staff member, working to bring hope to disadvantaged youth

Shafic Justin

Team Member.  Agape Heartily souls’ charity organization, he dedicated all his life to serve the destitute orphan disabled, homeless, and the elderly, he grew up with known parents, and a poor orphan, God gave Him life to serve and the children like him he is a living testimony,

Anthony Muligisa

Team Member. Agape heartily souls’ charity organization, he grew with a signal poor mother, and he was held by hand when he to the future he lives now, he is serving with this charity with all his life,

Steven Ssepuya

OUR IMPACTS

we’ve helped change hundreds of lives for Ugandan children/ youth. Here are just a few of the things we’ve recently been able to accomplish.

1. We provided school uniforms, textbooks and exam books to hundreds of Ugandan youths. In 2021, we provided hundreds of pencils and pens and purchased over hundreds exam books to help students take exams.
2. Our mentoring program has helped students learn important life skills including animal husbandry, farming, and sewing. These skills help youth become self-sufficient, supporting themselves and supporting their families.
3. We have provided medical supplies to poor community members who could not afford to visit a doctor or get medicine.
4. We have fed hungry youth and hungry families.

Heartily Souls changes lives and we use quantitative and qualitative data to measure our on-the-ground success in Uganda. We regularly evaluate our program and our on-the-ground team in Uganda helps us make sure all program goals are being met.

For each of our imitative we have a series of questions we use to evaluate effectiveness. Here are just a few samples.

Child Sponsorship 

1. Has the sponsorship money provided helped raise the living standard of the designated youth?  Do they have access to new school uniforms and has their access to food changed since receiving sponsorship?
2. Have they been able to develop a relationship with their monthly sponsor? What does this relationship look like?
3. Are they more engaged in school? What do their teachers say about their participation since sponsorship.

Mentoring program

1. Has the school identifed at-risk youth as promised?
2. Have at-risk youth been referred to our program?
3. Has the student participated in our income generating program?
4. Have they learned new skills to provide for themselves and our families?

Support Self-Sufficiency

Addition projects support our youth and encourage them to become self-sufficient. Some of these projects include animal husbandry program which raises pigs and helps youth gain skills for financial independence and gardening project.  Gardening projects help youth learn to grow local fruits and vegetables. Once these items are harvested, they can be used to feed families and they can be bartered for other necessary items.

 Teddy, Sewing Trainer

Our sewing project teaches students how to sew. They are provided gentle instruction so they can make clothes for themselves and for their families. After they have mastered basic skills, it is our hope they will use these skills to earn money as seamstresses and tailors.

Our farming program is important since so many of our youth reside in rural Uganda. Students learn the most effective way to raise crops to get the biggest yield. Then they harvest the crops using what they have grown to feed their families.

Produce can also be bartered and can be sold at local markets.

Via our piggery project, youth learn how to care for, breed and feed pigs. Once the pig is bred, they provide important food sources for families.

Pigs can be bartered for food, and as payment for other necessary services.