HYT is an award-winning charity that trains young people in climate-friendly construction and builds schools, homes and water tanks.
Working with some of Africa’s most marginalised people, HYT uses a sustainable compressed earth block, the Interlocking Stabilised Soil Block, to transform communities and refugee settlements.
HYT is East Africa’s leading advocate of a sustainable approach to building and vocational training.
Awarded the prestigious Ashden International Award for Sustainable Buildings, HYT works with international NGOs, government agencies and other partners, successfully completing environmentally-friendly projects and training programmes all over Uganda. Watch the video to learn more
Uganda has more refugees than anywhere else in Africa. HYT works with refugees in settlements throughout Uganda, giving women and men skills in construction and job opportunities.
Refugees build as they train, improving settlements with climate-friendly meeting centres, trading kiosks, schools and water tanks.
After their training, refugees have returned to their home countries to work as masons. Others have built new homes in the settlements, or stayed with HYT to work on other projects.
HYT is working with the Batwa community to build better family homes, while preserving Bwindi forested landscape, home to the fabled mountain gorilla. In the
The One Million Litres project was designed to alleviate water insecurity and empower refugees in Bidi Bidi through sustainable construction. HYT’s One Million Litres project
Batwa Elder “One day, soldiers told us to go to the county headquarters. Then we were led out of the forest. They said, ‘Wherever we
HYT and the BUMBA Foundation share a belief in providing education and training to create opportunities for disadvantaged young people, inspiring them and their communities
