Musana (Uganda)

New Investment Announcement

Legacy Kingdom Fund is excited to announce our latest investment, Musana Community Development Organization. Musana wants to break the cycle of dependence prevalent in many African communities through building a sustainable enterprise rooted in local ownership.
​
Uganda’s history of colonization and foreign aid has resulted in a paralyzing dependency mentality.  Recognizing this, Musana offers what Ugandans need: restored hope and dignity in their own economic and social capacity that will enable them to not only survive, but thrive.

Musana is building a vocational high school (Musana Vocational High School, or MVHS) in the Kaliro district of Uganda.  60% of the population in Kaliro’s 598 villages is  under the age of 16. Even before the pandemic-related school closures, the district lacked quality and affordable education. As a result, aspiring students have limited options; many youth feel they must choose to work to support their families, often in exploitative and dangerous situations; and nearly 40% of the girls in Kaliro have become pregnant since school closures. These young girls face great difficulty returning to school due to motherhood responsibilities and the associated social stigma.

MVHS will be a safe place for 1200 Kaliro youth to learn about Jesus and find their purpose, while building knowledge and skills that will help them provide for themselves and their future families.  The school will offer a combination of boarding students and a day school, with a mixture of students on scholarship and those who will pay the affordable school fees. This ensures sustainability and local ownership which will prevent the dependency that results from reliance on outside funding.

The school complex will cover ten acres and contain dorms, classrooms, kitchen and dining hall, labs and libraries, staff housing, sports fields, and a solid infrastructure. It will create 80 new jobs, bringing Musana’s total headcount to over 600 employees across several local for-profit educational and medical campuses.

This investment into MVHS will promote multiple bottom lines, including local ownership, social entrepreneurship, sustainability, and accountability.

Think of the thousands of Ugandan youth that in the next decade alone will receive quality education infused with Christian principles and teaching. Youth that will participate in an institution that operates with accountability and is set apart from the usual corruption that infects foreign aid in Uganda. Youth that will benefit from newly-built local revenue streams that will allow them to support themselves with dignity.

These youth will have the capacity to grow and build the spiritual, social, economic, and environmental future of the Kaliro region.

A note from Andrea & Haril from Musana after acquiring the land to build the new school in Kaliro:

www.musana.org