Marianne Foundation

We are a registered non-profit organization located in Ibanda District, Uganda with focus on empowering women to save this world, one day at a time! We are inspired by the great work of Marianne Martin, a US Peace Corps volunteer until 2014. At age 67, she came to serve in Uganda. While here, she worked hard to assist in skilling initiatives for girls and to empower women. Therefore, we named our foundation after Marianne in hopes that this organization will go on to transform women throughout our community. Marianne Foundation aims to help women who face an array of development challenges such as gender-based violence, lack of education (quality, access, dropout rates, retention), corruption, maternal mortality, and lack of economic autonomy, among others. Through our program areas, our goal is to facilitate capacity building for women in our community utilizing local relationships and local resources.