Indian Association Uganda

About Indian Association

The Association shall be charitable non-profit making body, and shall be strongly geared towards initiating and promoting charitable causes particularly in the fields of health and education among the local community in Uganda. The aims and objectives for which the Association is established shall be:
To promote social, educational, economic and cultural welfare of the

people and residents of Uganda. To promote, support and organize such activities to encourage the advancement and propagation of Indian and Ugandan Culture and Philosophy. To promote and coordinate the activities of the various Communities in Uganda with a view to advocating, safeguarding and protecting the interests and general welfare and betterment of the communities. To support and foster cultural, economic and social relationship among the people of India, between the Ugandans and Indians of all communities residing in Uganda. To initiate and promote charitable causes particularly in the fields of health, education and social welfare among the local population in Uganda. This will include contributions towards the treatment of children with chronic illnesses; rejuvenation and maintenance of the schools owned by the Association in the various Districts of Uganda; and contributions to alleviate hardships suffered by the various communities of Uganda that result from natural calamities. To establish branches throughout the Republic of Uganda for better administration of the association's activities and implementation of its objectives. To print, publish, or cause to be printed and published and to distribute books, booklets, leaflets, newsletters, magazines and other periodicals and any other mode of communication for the purpose of giving information with regard to the work of the association and for furtherance of its objectives
To establish institutions of learning, sports, recreation, health and any other similar activities in the interest of the Association
To promote a youth wing of the Association. To promote harmony and mutual understanding amongst various organizations in the Republic of Uganda. To make representations to the appropriate authorities to protect and safeguard the interests and well being of the residents of Uganda. To raise funds byway of accepting gifts, donations or otherwise, for the Association. To accept the management of any trust fund or endowment in which the Association is interested or is conferred with. To receive monies, securities, instruments and I or any other moveable property for and on behalf of the Association. To acquire, hold, manage, develop or dispose of properties of all kinds, whether moveable or immovable, and to derive capital or income the reform for all or any of the objects of the Association. To incorporate and register, in accordance with the Trustees Incorporation Act of Uganda, various Trusts for purposes of holding, managing and administering the properties owned by the Association in the various Districts of Uganda. To raise or borrow money for all or any of the foregoing objects in such manner and upon such security as may from time to time be determined by the Association members. To invest and deal with funds of the Indian Association Uganda in such manner as may from time to time, be determined by the Executive Committee of the Association. To promote and establish a business forum of businesses owned and managed in Uganda. Generally to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objects or any part