TPO Uganda Mission & Vision

Our Vision

A Society whose mental, social and economic well being allows all to enjoy a harmonious, mutually supportive and productive life.

Our Mission

TPO works as a rights-based NGO supporting and working with local communities CSOs and government to meet the social protection, psychosocial and mental health needs of vulnerable people.

Core Values

TPOs work with communities and other stakeholders will be guided by;

  • Professionalism in our outlook and approach at a personal and organizational level
  • Transparency in all dealings and promoting downward and upward accountability.
  • Innovation – Being innovative in the type of services and interventions delivered
  • Compassion for the needs of staff and beneficiaries
  • Gender Sensitivity & Cultural Sensitivity (incorporating the gender specific needs of all our staff, clients in the project design as well as being culture sensitive to the communities we work with).

News

  • For over 14 years now, TPO projects in Uganda have delivered interventions that aim to improve mental health and pshychosocial wellbing of communities especially in conflict, post cnflict and disaster affected areas...more

At the very grassroots of the problem…


In the vast rural setting surrounding the city of Lira in the Northern part of Uganda, families have been returning to rebuild their lives since early 2008. But the transformation from life in an IDP camp, to a sustainable family home is not an easy one. Many families have lost one, if not both providers, leaving a devastating number of orphans child-aided or in the care of already over-stretched relatives.

The mental implications of this combined with spending years in camps are evident in children as well as adults. With nothing to do, mourning the loss of loved ones and bearing untold hardships, many adults turn to alcohol for salvation, which in the end adds to their unhappiness, results in domestic violence and tears families further apart. Needless to say, children who grow up in such an unstable environment, with no access to education and with little in terms of a disciplined and structured upbringing, suffer immense consequences, physically and mentally.

Most families who return to their homes are partly, if not entirely dependent on the support of the many NGOs based in the area, aiding the lengthy re-build of an area, which has been rebel territory nearly two decades. One such organisation is the TPO (Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation), which works tirelessly at community level to identify, support and treat children suffering from severe mental health repercussions.

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