Slums - SILT

slum improvement & landscape transformation

$100/ household

"'Water is Life' if you do not live in the slum."
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SILT, Slum Improvement and Landscape Transformation

Martin Kiganda Martin Kiganda. Jun 2024

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Slum garbage dump

What is SILT?

SILT is the Slum Improvement and Landscape Transformation – Kiwuunya Edition is an initiative by Tondeka Foundation and her partners to improve the quality of life in Kiwuunya slum for the families in communities worst hit by climate change. Many of the poorest of the poor have become climate refugees; internally displaced people being pursued by flash floods in the wet season. Water brings life elsewhere except in the slum parts of the city. As the name suggests ‘SILT’, silt is the soil deposit that a river deposits at its mouth (delta) from its many travels to the ocean. In the case of River Nile, that black silt is very fertile if placed in a vegetable garden but very irritating when left in the Suez Canal in Egypt.

"The loonshot goal of the SILT project is the 1000 hat-trick...
+ 1000 slum dwellers impacted with
+ 1000 gift hampers reached in
+ 1000 days of action by 2026.

CEO

Why SILT?

Martin Kiganda

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The Diagnosis is the appalling state of urban squarlour evidenced in the Slum Housing challenge. Lusaze slum, like all other Kampala slums is a hotbed of social evils: crime, domestic violence, prostitution. As the runoff water flows into the swamp; it brings all the vices to settle and smell in the swamp. The slum becomes the urban sewer. As it has been said, Kampala City is an executive slum; guarded by the seven (7) hills that surround it..

Prescription: In line with the Foundation’s name ‘Tondeka’ (Eng: “leave no one behind”). The benefits of SILT accrue in the triple bottomline are...

  • People: In sync with the commando ethic ‘leave none behind’ SILT wishes to graduate the slum dwellers into better housing in partnership with other city stakeholders.
  • Planet: reaching out to climate refugees; people for whom rainy season means a ‘flooded house’. There is a popular local saying: “Water is life, if you do not live in the slum”. There the flash floods drive entire families out of their houses.
  • Profit: Work gives dignity. One of the key opportunities is decent job placements for the slum dwellers to jump the poverty gap since decent work breaks the welfare trap.

"Our Foundation is called 'Tondeka' (Eng: “leave no one behind”). We don't want to leave anyone behind." CEO Martin

How will we improve Slum Welfare?

Martin Kiganda

A pair of elderly women share a girl moment at their living quarters

Martin Kiganda

Child devouring a rice pack from soup kitchen

Tondeka Foundation reaches out to the ghettos communities

Where? starting with Kiwuunya zone in Lusaze Slum, Kampala City

When? Starting this May 2024 – 2026 over 1000 days of action.

Who? In targetting the slum community which lives in urban squalour, we’re employing a PPP Partnership (public-private-people) as in…

  • Private Sector led by Tondeka Foundation – Kampala.
  • Public Sector led by Kiwuunya-Lusaze LC1 Village Local Government.
  • People Sector led by Corporate Business Partners of Tondeka Foundation.

"The slum is a breeding ground of all things fowl so it is in our best interest to pay attention to how to improve life there" Police Officer

Ready to Support

upgrade of slum communities

Contact Focal Point:
Martin Kiganda Semwanga,
+256 709 259 606, info(@)tondeka.org