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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Our work promise to uphold the trust placed On Us

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

Multilingual regional conversation. Explore decolonial language, disability justice, and communications that truly include everyone.

Multilingual regional conversation. Explore decolonial language, disability justice, and communications that truly include everyone.

28th

JUL

Global celebration finale. Join reflection spaces, breakout groups, and our collective call for transformation.

31st

JUL

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Let's change the world, Join us now!

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.