About

Nile Humanitarian Development Agency (NHDA)

Empowering Communities, Embracing Ubuntu

Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu—”I am because we are”—the Nile Humanitarian Development Agency (NHDA) is a Uganda-based NGO founded in 2009 to address critical challenges like hunger, lack of clean water, limited healthcare, and education gaps. Guided by values of empathy, solidarity, and collective upliftment, NHDA implements transformative projects across four key areas: Social Support, Health, Education & Skills Development, and Economic Empowerment.

Our Impact

🎓 Educated 15,000+ children through 32 new schools and scholarship programs
💧 Provided clean water to 200+ villages, reducing waterborne diseases by 60%
🛠️ Trained 5,000+ youth in vocational skills with 80% employment success
🍲 Fed 50,000+ families through emergency food aid and sustainable farming programs
🏥 Restored vision for 1,200+ cataract patients through free surgeries
💰 Lifted 3,000+ households out of poverty via microloans and poultry projects

Our Vision

To be an organisation that employs state of the art approaches to support the needy by offering timely relief, aid and community skilling interms of capacity building programs that encourage self-reliance and support local communities in Uganda

Our Mission

To establish collaborative initiatives with various local and international stakeholders aimed at saving lives, promoting self-reliance and dignity through human transformation.

Our History

2009 -2013

Estimated 3000 people were affected by floods. Food, clothes, blankets aids were delivered to Karamoja region the most affected area by the disaster through the Ministry of Disaster and Preparedness of the Republic of Uganda.

In the last four years, around 100.000 people were given meat and food aids.
Every year 50 students were given scholarships.
Ten Orphanages were given food and clothes aid. (Up to Date)

2014

A hundred thousands of people were supplied with Meat and food items.
Over Ten boreholes have been drilled in the area ever.

2015 TO DATE

Over a hundred thousand people were supplied with Meat and other food items.
About one hundred and Ten students were offered scholarships in different schools in Uganda.
Support inform of Clothing, Scholastic material, food items and raising structures has been offered.
About forty boreholes were drilled.
An orphanage in Mityana is being renovated and New classroom blocks are being build.
More than five orphanages are being supplied with food aid during the year.