Kyakataama Village, Western Uganda
Empowering our Community through Women Empowerment, Education and Arts & Culture!
Supporting East African artists.
Uplifting rural Uganda by fostering self-reliance, creativity and inclusive growth.
ToondaWelcome to Toonda!
Toonda Cultural Community Center is dedicated to uplifting the rural communities of Uganda through our three main pillars: Women Empowerment, Education, and Arts & Culture. Join us in our mission to create a sustainable and inclusive future.
Three ways we build self-reliance
Education, women’s enterprise, and the arts are not separate programmes at Toonda. They are three routes into the same outcome: a village that can carry itself.
Investing in the Next Generation
With support from more than 60 private sponsors, 78 children attend primary and senior school. Older students tutor the younger ones through the holidays, and our library runs book clubs and reading sessions for community members of any age.
Backing Women’s Enterprise
Eighty single mothers come together at Toonda to build an income for their families. They run sewing, basket-weaving, and catering groups, registered as a community-based organization, and sell their handcrafted work at the Library Café.
Making Room for Culture
An open-air stage hosts workshops, artist residencies, dance and music groups, and Saturday art sessions for children. Each year it becomes the venue for the Cultural Gala, bringing folkloric dance groups from across the region.
78+
Children sponsored through primary and senior school
80+
Single mothers building an income together
1,000+
Books on the shelves of our community library
60+
Private sponsors around the world
Welcome to the Toonda Community Hub.
Everyone is welcome here. The Hub holds a library of a thousand books, free internet and computers, a projector, workshop facilities and a café patio – and it is where the community comes together to learn, mentor, argue and rest.
You will find us in Kyakataama village, thirty kilometres from Fort Portal, on a site with a performance stage, an office and kitchen, and green outdoor space for sport and conversation.
Stop consuming – be a part of our community
Learn from our self-organised groups: traditional dances, drumming, basket weaving, or tailoring on a pedal machine.
Classes are taught by the people who do this work every day – the women’s groups and the cultural music group. You can also support us with your stay.
“The vision is to work on a village of the future. What do the members of our community really need to grow in a way that supports their very own village and pulls them out of poverty?”
Two and a half thousand people live in Kyakataama. Most homes have no electricity, no running water and no sewage treatment. Families are large, school fees are out of reach for many, and mothers are often raising children alone on almost no income.
Toonda exists so that the answer comes from inside the village, not from outside it.
Toonda Innovation Lab
We loved our first Toonda Innovation Lab. Reach out for more information about the next one.
Order our shirt and show your love
40,000 UGX, or €20 if you are ordering from Europe. Reach out and we will sort the rest.
Peace and Brenda from Toonda
Meet our sponsors and collaborators
Thanks and love to all our private sponsors and supporters.
News & Impact
- Summer Program 2026The kids are back from school, and we better make sure they will be more than just OK. Another holiday programme of activities for kids and youth from the community, with two artists joining for our residency.
- Become a certificated writerWe are proud to host the Fort Portal section of a three-month accredited course in creative writing, free for women aged 18 to 35 across the broader Fort Portal region.
- Syntropic farming workshopDemeter advisor and practitioner Joel Paul Kakembo joins us at Toonda this May for a workshop packed with knowledge and hands-on practical advice, perfect for all local farmers.
Join our community of changemakers
A few times a year we write about what has changed in Kyakataama – new sponsorships, what the women’s groups are making, and what is coming up on the stage.
Toonda Cultural Community Center – founded in 2018. A registered international NGO in Uganda, and registered in Germany as Toonda e.V. since 2022.
info@toonda.org