TM Real Estate Group renews its commitment with NGO Rafiki to fight poverty in Uganda

TM Real Estate Group renews its commitment to cooperate with Rafiki Africa NGOa non-profit association from Alicante operating in Uganda, developing new projects for Fighting poverty, inequality and social exclusion in the region.

More than a year ago, TM began cooperation with the NGO Rafiki Three projects related to women’s empowerment, education and sanitation infrastructure. Build and operate a water treatment plant, an agricultural training school, and the design of a microcredit program for womenwere measures that were developed to improve the living conditions of hundreds of families.

In this sense, and with the aim of continuing to support one of the least resourced places in the world, TM is once again collaborating with the NGO Rafiki with two new lines of action in the coming months: The construction of a boarding school – an orphanage and the development of a micro-credit project for women in the region.

The building of the future Kinziga Boarding School will accommodate 100 children from the region, who will be able to continue their lives and education in an environment more prepared for their needs and equipped with a library and dining room. On the other hand, the new impetus for the microcredit project Dozens of women will be allowed to train and start small agricultural and animal husbandry businesses that will help them improve their quality of life and that of their families. Not only will this project serve the families involved in the project, but it will also be a source of inspiration and valuable learning for the rest of the community about effective and sustainable methods of goat and poultry farming, beekeeping and efficient corn farming. .

These projects will contribute to Achieving the goals of sustainable development: Goal 1 (poverty eradication), Goal 3 (health and well-being), Goal 4 (quality education), Goal 8 (decent work and economic development), and Goal 10 (reduce inequalities); More than 300 people in this rural area of ​​Uganda are expected to benefit from these projects over the next two years.

“At TM, we are committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, as outlined in Corporate responsibility master plan. We are delighted to be able to expand our collaboration with Rafiki to make it easier for hundreds of people from one of the world’s least resourced populations to have a chance to escape extreme poverty and a future for themselves and their families,” TM President, Angeles Serna.

“The main objective of Rafiki Africa is to lift people from Uganda’s Kinziga and Katwe region out of external poverty, thanks to the collaboration of companies like TM Real Estate Group in implementing actions related to education and small projects. With these initiatives, we are sure that the situation that finds these people themselves in it will soon change and they themselves will create value and opportunity in the land in which they were born,” he affirms. Juan Amirola, President of the NGO Rafiki Africa.

Consult more responsible information at Joint Responsible Publications And in practical case TM Real Estate Group In the 2023 Stewardship Yearbook.