Strømme Foundation is a rights-based development NGO that works towards a world free from poverty.

Our most important interventions in the fight against poverty are education, job creation, and the strengthening of civil society.

Strømme Foundation Norway has a regional office in East Africa.

In East Africa, we implement education, livelihoods, and civil society strengthening programs in remote and hard to reach areas of Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Kenya.

201,281

people supported
in East Africa in 2023

80,721

were adolescents and children
below 18 years.

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Creating Livelihoods & Job Opportunities
Improve livelihoods for the rural poor through enhanced income generation.

Ensuring inclusive Quality Education
Ensuring inclusive quality education for disadvantaged groups, especially girls.

Building Strong Societies
Strengthen civil society and the public sector.

Flagship Programmes

Bonga - let's talk

This Adolescent Empowerment programme in East Africa restores self-esteem, dignity and a second chance to those that had lost hope and respect to self-reliant, confident individual making a contribution in the homes and communities.

Community Managed Saving Groups (CMSGs)

This is the flagship program through which we reach out to vulnerable communities with other interventions to eradicate poverty.

Selected impact stories

Using Climate Smart Agriculture to support the refugee community in Uganda to become food secure.

Advances in technology have not improved equity in access to food and many people cannot find adequate food to eat.

Hope away from home

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is a bridge between the employed and unemployed; a true beacon of hope for people like Cecilia and other...

Selected news

RISING UGANDA: An education initiative to construct classrooms to support children’s quality and inclusive learning

RISING Uganda, a project aimed at supporting the most vulnerable out-of-school children has this morning laid the foundation for the new construction or...

Stromme Foundation East Africa launches 4-year project in Yumbe and Obongi

Stromme Foundation East Africa has this week launched the 4-year Rising Uganda project. The RISING project will work with families, communities, local leaders,...

Strømme Foundation East Africa