Pathways Initiative for the Youth

Help create peace and comfort for youth in Eastern Uganda

Mission

To create an environment of peace for transgender persons in Eastern Uganda by fighting stigma and discrimination and empowering them socially, economically, legally and health wise.

Vision

A trans community in Eastern Uganda free of oppression and discrimination, with an understanding of their social, economic, legal and health rights.

Our Goal

To reach out to members of our fellow transgender persons community in the rural areas of Eastern Uganda with lifesaving health information and link them to quality friendly health and legal services and improve their personal safety and livelihoods.

Our Values

Community focus
Respect and confidentiality
Excellent service
Accountability
Team work
Inclusion
Openness and transparency
Non-Discrimination

Strategic Objectives

To promote and create economic freedom for transgender persons in Eastern Uganda by advocating for the right to respectable employment despite one’s sexual orientation and supporting job creation.
To improve access to quality physical, mental and sexual health information and services by fellow trans in Eastern Uganda.
To provide a safe haven for trans individuals in Eastern Uganda to freely interact, socialize, build support systems and thrive.
To promote self-love, personal care, education and creativity among the transgender community members so as to boost their confidence, reduce self-stigma and ensure a bright future for themselves and their families.
To educate and increase awareness among Ugandans about the need to abhor hate, embrace diversity and be more tolerant, open minded and accepting of fellow human beings that they perceive as different (e.g. transgender persons and sex workers).
To change the perception of the general society about the community members who they consider failures in life, lacking in character, ill-mannered, perverse, cursed and immoral yet they are also decent human beings.