CPAR Uganda invites applications from persons aged 25 to 45 years, who are able to read, write and speak English, to benefit from our training on income generation, savings and investment.

An 11-day residential training course that is part of our Dr. Paul Hargrave Memorial Centre Human Development Project we are jointly implementing with Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief.

Priority will be given to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds from and or who are resident in Greater Northern Uganda – West Nile, Madi, Acholi, Lango, Teso, Karamoja and Bukedi. Women are especially encouraged to apply.

Send a request via email: info@cparuganda.com or via our Website (Contact Us). And we will send you a simple application form to complete and to return. Deadline for receiving completed applications is Friday, 20th February 2026.

Why you should apply

The dilemma poor people face in coping with a money-economy. ‘Everything costs money’. There is no choice. We need money.

Some measures of poverty are based entirely on money, in fact. As in, if you have no money, you are poor. You are unable to provide for yourself and your household your basic and genuine needs.

You cannot afford to buy that which you need to survive and thrive.  

Case in point, according to the most recent Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) that was conducted in 2024 by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), hundreds of households in Uganda are experiencing:

“Frequent and prolonged periods of insufficient food intake due to lack of money and other resources, forcing members of those households to skip meals or go an entire day without a meal.”

CLICK HERE to read “State of food security in Uganda” for more insights.

Many are trying to make money.

Many have established multiple income generating initiatives; but which are making minimal profit, if at all.

Many such initiatives ‘died’ without making money for investors.

Worse more, those initiatives cost money for investors, who lost the money they invested in part or all of it.

Reality is that “80% of businesses in Uganda fail within their first two years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.” Reportedly, among the reasons why so are:

• The copycat syndrome
• Reckless loan acquisition
• Unplanned growth

CLICK HERE to read Monitor’s “The Silent Killers of Business” for more insights

Still, the more realistic, practical and sustainable approach is that we have to invest money in income generation to make money that we can utilize to purchase our basic and genuine needs.

And so, we must learn how to make money.