UCAL Objectives
UCAL is a one-stop, community group operating across Liverpool and the wider Merseyside region in the UK, to deliver culturally responsive, trauma-informed support to diasporic Ugandans. Our co-production and partnership-based model enables us to provide locally grounded support, ensuring individuals and families can access help within our Liverpool communities and a connected UK-wide network.
Our Objectives
The Uganda Community Association Liverpool – UCAL’s objectives are:
- To promote the integration of Ugandans in Liverpool into the wider community with the aim of achieving cohesion. By sharing knowledge to unite all Ugandans in Liverpool, without prejudice or discrimination, into a thriving community to function cohesively and interactively with other communities aiming at eradicating isolation.
- To provide social seminars, gender focussed activities and creating awareness of Ugandan values and customs to all generations while respecting the cultures in the wider community.
- To support and improve the welfare and wellbeing of vulnerable Ugandans in Liverpool by identifying and addressing their needs and circumstances.
- Engaging Ugandans into activities that enable them to participate, interact and contribute to the improvement of the wider community and fulfil their potential.
- Supporting the Development and improvement of the social and economic conditions of all Ugandans in Liverpool by offering access to employability programs and intergenerational activities to reduce deprivation.
- Upholding and promoting the Ugandan culture and values by hosting events and activities, skills, experience and identifying opportunities for social and economic inclusion,
- As agreed by trustees, The organisation shall engage in charitable ventures aimed at raising income for the sustenance of the organisation and our beneficiaries.