The foundation works in partnership with the UK registered charity ugive2uganda (see www.ugive2uganda.org). Ugive2uganda raises funds and supports child sponsors in the UK while East Uganda Youth Music Foundation (EUYMF) distributes the funds in Uganda. The founder of both organizations, Philip Monk, lives in Uganda to ensure that all funds are spent honestly, appropriately and wisely.

Although the foundation focuses on youth music it also manages a child sponsorship scheme and provides emergency health care for sick children when funds allow.

The foundation currently supports six brass bands in various districts in and around Mbale. These are: Bukedea Youth Band; Namabassa Community Band in Mbale District, Joshua School Band in Bungkoho, Sacred Heart Church band in Tororo, Kapchorwa Youth Band, and Muluku Youth Band in Mbale town. We bring the best players from all these bands together to form our main band - Mbale Schools Band (like the way that the best footballers from a country's football clubs are selected to make a national team). We believe that Mbale Schools Band is therefore the best brass band in Uganda as the children can play both traditional Ugandan tunes and western-style reading music from papers. See us play here Mbale Schools Band

Mbale Schools Band

Through our program of teaching a child to play a musical instrument we instil positive values in the child and develop their mental, academic and spiritual capacities. Reading music from papers teaches a child responsibility, how to be part of a team, and is a way of building self-confidence and nurturing many other positive values. In Uganda, particularly, playing in a musical ensemble gives many children their first exposure to group discipline outside school, teaches them to think and concentrate and gives them an understanding that if one works hard and is determined you can achieve success. Giving a children something to do in a village or town where there is no entertainment or opportunity to be creative is a very good way of preventing them from getting into trouble and misusing their time and wasting their talent.

Namabassa Community Band

We offer help for a few selected children in the band from sponsors in the UK. This assistance usually takes the form of making a contribution to their education such as school fees, uniforms, books, etc. Please help us by sponsoring a child in one of our bands.

Muluku Youth Brass Band

To contact us, e-mail us at ugive2uganda1@aol.com

Alternatively, you can use electronic banking (please contact us for our account details).