Soft Power Education is a charity based in Uganda, working with rural communities with the aim to "improve quality of life through education",  The charity's vision since it's creation in 1999 is to support an  "empowered and self-sustaining society that takes responsibility for it's own development".  Every project is based on opportunities from SPEs partners or specific requests from communities.

Why Soft Power Education works in Uganda:

"The majority of the rural population across the country is deemed by the UN, World Bank and various other commentators to be living in chronic poverty, solely dependent on farming for food and income. This level of poverty stems from a number of inter-related factors including; lack of education, serious health issues, environmental destruction, large households and remote locations. Uganda’s turbulent history has exacerbated the problems contributing to the poverty experienced by a significant proportion of the population. Many families in rural communities are caught in a perpetual cycle of poverty from one generation to the next.

In our early years, our work was largely focused on infrastructure in the primary education sector. However, in recent years, we have begun to tackle many more of the factors that contribute to poverty.

The Government of Uganda currently relies heavily on input from external sources, particularly NGOs, to meet the basic needs of its population. Although the government is very supportive of the work that we do, at SPE we work with a view to reducing dependency by equipping people with the skills and resources that they need to break the cycle of poverty for themselves."