Empowering our Community through Women Empowerment, Education and Arts & Culture!
Supporting east african artists.
Welcome to Toonda!
Toonda Cultural Community Center is dedicated to uplifting the rural communities of Uganda through our three main pillars: Women Empowerment, Education, and Arts & Culture. Join us in our mission to create a sustainable and inclusive future.
Toonda Community Hub
Everyone is welcome in our Community Hub – a library of 1000 books, free Internet, Computers, projector, workshop facilities and meeting point of the community. Here we come together, discuss, mentor, learn and hang.
Stop consuming and be a part of our community!
Learn from our self-organized groups traditional dances, drumming, basket weaving or tailoring on a pedalmachine! Reach out to book your class!
Support us with your stay!
Toonda Innovation Lab
We’re excited about our first Toonda Innovation Lab!Reach out for more informations http://www.toonda.org/contact
Meet our sponsors and collaborators
The vision is to work on a village of the future. What do the members of our community really need to grow in a way that supports their very own village and pulls them out of poverty.
In the village of Kyakataama, 30 km from Fort Portal, Toonda provides a meeting point for the community with a performance stage, a library and meeting cafe, an office, a kitchen and a green outdoor space for sports and discussions.
Projects of Toonda
2500 inhabitants live in Kyakataama Village in western Uganda in inedaquate housing, with no electricity, no running water and no sewage treatment plans. Incomes are low, education is poor. Most families have 6-10 children. Due to school fees many kids aren’t able to go to school. Mothers are often left alone as single-mums with no regular income and little education. Toonda is offering help to self-help with support in Education, Women Empowerment and seeks to empower through the arts to find new perspectives and grow self-esteem.
Together we will elevate the area and make families strong!
Education
Venue: Library with study room and Café patio.
With the support of over 60 generous private sponsors, we are able to send 78 children to primary and senior school. The older ones tutor the younger onces in the holidays and on weekends to share their knowledge. Next to that we provide a range of extracurricular classes and workshops for all ages, including writing and reading sessions for illiteratate community members both young and old. Our library also hosts engaging book clubs to foster a love of reading. Read more.
Women Empowerment
Venue: Toonda wooden office and kitchen.
80 single mothers, without a stable income, who often have to provide for their children alone, come together at Toonda to actively and collectively support their own future and that of their families. With support from Toonda, they have established various groups: sewing, basket weaving, and catering for functions. The women’s group is registered as a Community-Based Organization (CBO). The handcrafted items from the women can be purchased at the Library Café on-site.
Read more.
Thanks for the support by Zonta Hamburg and Rwenzori RSTC. ❤️
Art & Culture
Venue: Open-Air Stage for Trainings, Workshops and Performances.
Workshops by artists from East Africa and abroad.
Artists Residencies and Community Service for Artists from all over the world.
Cultural Dance and Music Groups.
Painting and handcrafting workshops.
Kids activity saturdays to try out new art methods.
Talent Competitions in Music and Art.
Annual Cultural Gala – competition and presentation of folkloric dance groups of the region (sponsored by German Embassy Kampala). Read more.
Upcoming Events
TOONDA Cultural Community Center
Founded in 2018, registered international NGO in Uganda and Registered in Germany as Toonda e.V. since 2022.
Reach out for further informations!
info@toonda.org
+256 765 311 502
Find us: https://maps.app.goo.gl/LjypEEdviE4hF91N6
Thanks and love to all our private sponsors and supporters!
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