Vulnerable Mothers of Eastern Uganda is a Charitable organization

Vulnerable Mothers of Eastern Uganda (VUMA) is a non-profit, non-denominational, non- political and non secretariat community based organization found in Eastern and Northern part of Uganda. It looks at empowerment of vulnerable women in order to secure a child’s future and reduction of early child motherhood (TEEN MOTHERS) among girls that is mostly caused by poverty in most vulnerable families.

Today VUMA works with the rural vulnerable mothers and some few urban single mothers in northern and Eastern part of Uganda to address their real needs and build local partnerships with institutions/community in order to touch the livelihood of mothers and their children focus adolescent girls and teen mothers psycho-social support in agriculture , food security, health access and utilization. Particular emphasis is put on empowering vulnerable mothers in the capacity of one’s ability in order to eradicate poverty.

Amuga Harriet and Leif Thoedorsen found her living in Total poverty and helped take her and the children back to school, also giving her basic necessity for a living, thus meaning of life. In the year 2015 Christine by the help of the two Norwegians registered a CBO (Community based organization) in the Names of Vulnerable mothers of Africa (VUMA) to help reach other mothers who were in worse state than her.

This organization was started by two people Amuga Harriet Oustgard and Leif Thoedorsen both are Norwegian Citizens. In the year 2010 on their visit to Uganda they came across one vulnerable mother by the names Tumuhimbise Christine. This woman was suffering the vulnerability of being a total orphan with no voice dumped by the husband at the age of 20years with children and living in an incomplete tormented structure like house, she was a semi illiterate, with no job or business to earn a living. She tried to go back to the guardian’s family where she grew up as a child but was disowned because she was now three in one.( with the children) when she went to police she was helped to remain in the marital house with no other help to bring up the children she had because the man had disappeared and the police searched in vain.