We work with children, youth, refugees and displaced communities across Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Ghana and the DRC to build sustainable livelihoods, green skills and lasting hope — from climate-smart farms to the honey, ghee and yoghurt they produce.
In 2025, BetterLife reached 112,430 people. Behind that number are farmers who changed how they grow food, young people who found a way into work, women who began earning and saving, and families that became less exposed to the next failed season.
It arrives as a harvest that fails twice in one year. It is the extra distance a woman walks when the nearest water source dries up. It is the child who misses school because there is more work to do at home. It is the young person who leaves agriculture because one bad season can erase everything.
These problems are connected. Food depends on water. Water collection takes time. Time affects education and income. Income determines whether a family can recover when the next shock comes.
BetterLife works across those connections. We bring together agriculture, livelihoods, clean energy, education, technology and market access around the way people actually live.
Our model farm in Rukungiri trains farmers in organic dairy and crop farming, and produces the honey, ghee and yoghurt sold under the BetterLife Farm brand.
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Debates, public speaking and Green Libraries that put climate literacy directly into the hands of students.
Learn moreOver 30 nursery beds across 24 districts, growing indigenous and fruit trees to restore ecosystems.
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Skill-building in briquette-making and small-scale farming that gives displaced women a sustainable income.
Learn moreEmergency support can help a family through today. Rebuilding a life takes more.
We begin by listening to what is making it difficult for people to grow food, earn, save or plan ahead. From there, we combine practical training with demonstration, coaching, starter inputs, savings, finance, information and markets.
People do not simply attend a workshop and leave. They test what they have learnt, adapt it to their circumstances and receive support as they put it to use. Existing women’s groups, farmer groups, schools, local facilitators and public institutions are involved so that the work is not held together by BetterLife alone.
Understand the problem as the community experiences it.
Show what works in a form people can see and test.
Support people as they use new skills at home, on the farm or in business.
Open routes to inputs, savings, finance, information and markets.
Build local groups and leadership that can continue the work.
Before we introduced a single farming technique, we asked women how the changing climate was affecting their day. Their answers went far beyond crops.
They spoke about the hours spent looking for water, the distance travelled for firewood, the cost of buying vegetables and the choices families made when a harvest failed. With support from Foundation S – The Sanofi Collective, BetterLife worked with refugee, displaced and host-community women in Yumbe to respond to those realities together.
Women learnt through gardens they could see and practices they could try: composting, mulching, sack and box gardening, drought-tolerant crops, agroforestry, briquette-making and simple digital tools for soil and market information.
The lesson was straightforward. Women adopt what they can see. Groups learn faster than individuals working alone. And information becomes useful when people have the confidence and support to act on it.
Read the Yumbe StoryBetterLife Agro Tourism Farm is where our work in agriculture, clean energy and livelihoods meets production and sales.
The farm demonstrates solar-powered irrigation, greenhouse farming, dairy production, beekeeping and livestock rearing. It also creates a route for farmers trained by BetterLife International to supply produce for processing and sale through BetterLife Agro Tourism Farm Ltd.
Our products include BetterLife Honey, Ghee and Vanilla Yoghurt. Each one is part of a wider value chain connecting knowledge, production and household income.
BetterLife works with organisations that bring resources, knowledge and reach while respecting the experience of the communities at the centre of the work.
Read what communities are teaching us, how the work is changing and what we are learning as we grow.
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