Kulika’s original program was oriented towards enabling destitute Ugandans to acquire knowledge and skills through the offer of undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships. The beneficiaries would later effect national development. The Education Program at Kulika has assisted over 1,500 scholars in various schools of higher learning both in Uganda and the UK. They are now contributing to development in government agencies, the commercial sector, and charity services. In addition, Kulika has supported over 500 students to obtain occupational skills.

The Community Development Program expanded through teaching smallholder farmers in rural communities, notably in the area of sustainable organic agriculture. The initiative trains communities to enhance food security, run income-generating enterprises, and maintain their natural environment to achieve sustainable development. The program also aids them with certification and the building of market linkages for their products. The group supports nearly 16,000 people in 20 rural areas in Uganda. Through this program, Kulika has empowered rural people with livelihood enhancement projects.

Through involvement with rural communities in Uganda, Kulika identified an existing skills gap in the program delivery: many grass-root implementers lack the requisite knowledge and abilities to contribute value to our efforts there. Most of the rural villages are distant and far removed from urban centers, where specialized talents are available. Hence, acquiring technical assistance for most technology employed by the main farming groups becomes an issue; skilled personnel are hard to come by. For example, ordinary farm implements like ox-ploughs, threshers, wheel barrows, and other agronomic tools break down often and can only be thrown away or done away with since there is no accessible technical support. Transportation facilities like motor cars and bicycles may be easy to maintain in the communities provided there were qualified workers to fix them at designated centers inside the communities [1]. In addition, all bread and confectionaries consumed in the remote Ugandan communities are baked in metropolitan centers, although the raw materials are produced in the remote rural areas, making them exceedingly expensive inside the communities.

As a result, the initiative will aid in the development of skills that will address a variety of needs in rural communities.