Ishkama Ltd

Mr. Zachery Onyango

Mr. Zachery Onyango

COUNTRY CHAIR FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS, ADVOCATE, AND SOCIAL WORKER

About Me

Mr. Zachery Onyango is a Sustainable Livelihoods advocate, social worker, volunteer and Founder and CEO of Development Alert-https://da.or.ug-a Nonprofit organization involved in empowering rural and disadvantaged communities on livelihoods improvement and Environment Conservation in Uganda. He is passionate about Access to quality  Education, Clean Water Access, Economic Empowerment and Conservation.

Since founding Development Alert in 2020, Zachery has directly supported 2,000+ people; providing 634 school-going rural children with scholastic materials and other school supplies; and sponsorships to allow them keep in school, drilled a community Borehole providing access to clean and safe water to a whole village of over 1000 people, provided school lunch to 400 rural school children, provided Interest-Free Microloans to 50 rural entrepreneurs based on PAY-IT-FORWARD model, supplied 9 brand new sewing machines and startup fabrics to Nine young female tailors to enable them start tailoring business, supported the elderly in the community and planted over 7000 trees to conserve the environment.

Zachery holds a Bachelor of Arts Social Sciences degree from Makerere University Kampala and currently at Research level with Master of Arts Social Sector Planning and Management of the same.

He is passionate about the fight against poverty, illiteracy, community water shortage, and environment degradation and hopes that his mission will inspire others within the community, country and around the world to embrace self-initiative and positively contribute to their communities.

Social Media Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zach.j.onyango/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachery-onyango-38258323/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/onyangojz