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JUSTICE. CREATIVITY. CARE.
Centering communities
too often left behind.
At Diverse Empowerment Foundation, we work alongside individuals and communities navigating systemic exclusion due to disability, gender norms, displacement, or silence.
What we Stand For
Care Is Power
We honor healing, softness, and interdependence as forms of resistance.
Nothing About Us Without Us
Our leadership is disabled, queer, feminist, and proudly grounded in community
Story Telling As Survival
We reclaim our voices through art, writing, and testimony
Intersectional Justice
We address overlapping exclusions in law, policy, and everyday life.
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Working with DEF means joining the table of social justice. We’re disability-led advocates who actually know what we’re talking about. Our team combines lived experience with strategic brilliance.
We turn research into real change, and make policy work accessible.
Make a difference today
Become a volunteer
Got skills and passion for justice? We’ve got meaningful work (and surprisingly good virtual coffee breaks). Join our volunteer team changing lives in Uganda!
Donate to support
Empowering Diverse persons with and without disabilities requires actual funds. Your donation fuels advocacy, research, and system change in Uganda. Ready to invest in fierce futures?
Become a partner
We’re seeking partners who share our vision (and our caffeine addiction). Together, we can amplify Diverse persons with and without disabilities’ voices and create lasting change. Ready to collaborate?
Our Partners
Support Our Work
Your money goes toward actual change. Think research that shifts narratives, advocacy that opens doors, and programs that transform lives in Uganda and beyond. Plus, you’ll sleep better knowing you’re backing disability-led organizers to make policy work accessible.
Upcoming events
28th
JUL
- 9.00 pm - 11.00 pm
- On Twitter
Multilingual regional conversation. Explore decolonial language, disability justice, and communications that truly include everyone.
- 9.00 pm - 11.00 pm
- On Zoom
Multilingual regional conversation. Explore decolonial language, disability justice, and communications that truly include everyone.
28th
JUL
- 8:00 am- 12:30 pm
- On Zoom
Global celebration finale. Join reflection spaces, breakout groups, and our collective call for transformation.
31st
JUL
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Whether you’re into research, advocacy, creative storytelling, or making complicated policy actually make sense, we’ve got a spot for you. Fair warning: you might accidentally become an expert on intersectional disability justice while helping Diverse persons with and without disabilities in Uganda build power.