We work where we are from.
Seeds of Hope began with a group of midwives and teachers in Wakiso who kept meeting the same household from different sides. We are a small organisation, and we intend to stay one.
One household, seen by three people.
A midwife sees a mother arrive at the health centre too late. A teacher, two streets away, marks the same family’s daughter absent for the fourth week running. A nutrition volunteer weighs the youngest child in that household and finds she has lost a kilogram since March. Three people, three records, one family under pressure, and no reason any of the three would ever compare notes.
Seeds of Hope exists to compare them. We register a household once and follow it across every programme it touches, so a mother who is already known to a midwife does not have to be found again by a school. It is unglamorous work. It is also the difference between four services arriving separately and one plan arriving on time.
That only holds if the people doing it stay. Every field team member is recruited from the district they serve. They speak the language of the household they visit, they live within reach of it, and they are still there the following season, which is when the follow-up visit falls due.
How we got to four districts.
2019
Registered in Kampala
Founded by a group of midwives and teachers working in Wakiso district.
2021
First nutrition site opens in Koboko
Screening and therapeutic feeding begin at parish level in West Nile.
2023
Girls in School launches in Kamuli
Twenty-three partner schools join the attendance tracing scheme.
2025
Karamoja programme begins
Emergency feeding and kitchen gardens start in Napak district.
What we do not do.
Worth setting down plainly. Every one of these has been asked of us at least once.
We do not run our own schools or clinics. We work through the ones already serving the district and pay for what they are short of.
We do not sponsor individual children through intermediaries. Support goes to a household or to a school, against a receipt we keep.
We do not photograph a child without written consent from a parent or guardian, and we do not use a photograph to raise money for a programme the child is not in.
We do not accept funding that would change who we serve or where we serve them.
Who is accountable.
A board of trustees meets quarterly. It approves the budget, signs off the annual accounts and is the only body that can open or close a district. Minutes are kept for every meeting.
The accounts are audited once a year by an external firm, and the audited figures are what appear on our impact page. Where a number there is still a placeholder, it is labelled as one rather than rounded up.
Behind every published figure there is a ledger: receipts, delivery notes, school registers, weighing cards. Any donor, partner or district office can ask to see the ledger behind a figure, and we will send it. Nobody has to take a total on trust.
Come and see the work.
We would rather show you a household register than a brochure. Visits are arranged around the field calendar rather than the visitor’s, so tell us the window you have and we will say honestly what falls inside it.