Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) is a national NGO founded in 1986 by the Hon. Mrs. Janet Museveni to respond to the needs of children orphaned by the civil strife and the AIDS pandemic. However over the years, UWESO evolved into a broad based child rights organization, addressing the needs of OVC nationally through identifying interventions that are strategic to the alleviation of their plight.
UWESO targets the most vulnerable communities specifically OVC aged 0 – 18 years and their caregivers. These include orphans, child headed households, chronically ill and elderly households with young children and OVC without alternative family care.
