UGANDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PROJECT ( URDT)

Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme (URDT) was founded 1987 to address the missing link in development programmes, the merger of truly functional education; consciousness and conscience raising; skills training; rural development interventions with the intent of empowering marginalized people living in rural communities in Uganda. URDT has evolved, applied and tested a rural development methodology based on the principles of the creative process and systems thinking. The organization distributes resources such as water pumps to farmers in rural sub-counties to support sustainable agricultural development. It founded formal innovative education institutions that train young people to become catalysts of change by using the URDT methodology: The URDT Girls School that uses the 2-generation approach to education The URDT Institute for Vocational Training and Youth Leadership The African Rural University- provides transformational education to create effective change agent.