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Welcome to VERD
Volunteer Effort for Rural Development (VERD) is founded on the principles of the unconditional love and compassion for the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. The organization’s cause is the cause close to the hearts of the vulnerable and the marginalized. Her initiatives, actions and interventions are specifically designed to respond appropriately and effectively to the socio – economic development challenges affecting the marginalized vulnerable groups in Uganda. She is on the frontline reaching households and communities where vulnerable and underserved populations live. Read more
The target groups and beneficiaries of VERD broadly fall into categories of vulnerable marginalized and underserved populations that include orphans and vulnerable children, the vulnerable women and widows, girls, youth, people with disabilities, the elderly, the minority groups and impoverished households among others
Although critically vulnerable marginalized and underserved populations in Uganda represent a large group of the vulnerable, most of them fall outside the main stream of the Uganda government programs and provision of basic social services. The response to their needs and fulfilment of their potential is very limited or absent.
In the targeted remote and hard to reach rural areas of Uganda, these beneficiaries are characterized by abject poverty, underdevelopment, inequality, abandonment, injustice, landlessness, food insecurity, hunger, affliction by gender based violence, human suffering, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, dependency, living in precarious situations and marginalization, being forgotten, isolated, threatened in impoverished families and critical vulnerability, lack of role models, dysfunctional home environment and economic and social deprivation.
