About the initiative

We aim to provide a space for young voices to be heard and ideas to be exchanged in the pursuit of collective change. Join us as we work together to build a brighter tomorrow, one initiative at a time.

Vision

A society with youths who are empowered with theoretical and practical skills that transform their livelihood and that of their communities

Mission

Aiding the youths in discovering, developing and using their talents for the enhancement of improved standards of living

Objectives

The objectives of this Organization consist of helping the youths within and surrounding Mpigi District to identify and develop their talents. This will be done by equipping the youths with developmental ideas and skills through facilitated workshops and training sessions geared to breeding self-reliant and job-creating people.

Core values

Team Work
Integrity
Excellence
Professionalism and
Innovativeness

Our Motto

“Explore a Skill; Secure the Future”

Our Story

The generational ideas of this centre can partially and mainly be dated way back to the preceding years of 2015, when Mr Robert Kabuye started evolving a sparking idea within himself. At its birth, was his love for Music and its conservation, but also helping an African youth in the community area and its surroundings, to get skilled for a better future. He having ushered into a community search and having realized a good number of seemingly talented but unaided youths, who among other factors faced poverty as a hampering factor for a better future, shared in his later encounters with Matthias Edler von Pollak, his personal Germany colleague and the chairman of Tonkünstlerverband Passau. This earned him support for the implementation of the idea. Preliminaries were done and Nkozi Catholic Parish premises were resolved to kick off the implementations, though with a later dream of constructing better facilities at Mpigi, where Robert himself had previously acquired personal land.

As a Christian believer, Robert entrusted the entire project unto the intercession and patronage of St. Padre Pio a modern saint he had grown blissful trust and love; hence the name “St. Padre Pio Youth Initiative”.

The two colleagues off the ground (Robert on Music studies in Germany), entrusted the daily ground run of the work to Simon Peter Ssekyanzi a catholic priest incardinated in the Archdiocese of Kampala, and a team of other members on the executive. Attempts went by, but not without challenges majorly on the fact that the targeted beneficiaries hardly met any monetary demands even for the availed services. This contributed to the slow progress, but also a realization that some of the targeted youths expressed their talents and desires in fields other than Music.

In this struggle, the efforts of Matthias Edler von Pollak and colleagues in Germany must be commended for the continuity of the project. Having scrutinized the fact of skills other than Music, an additional concept to the earlier formation developed in pursuit of establishing a technical and vocational training centre to accommodate a wider spectrum of skills execution.