SYPO offers structural aid in Uganda by starting and supporting sustainable, entrepreneurial projects. Instead of a top down approach, where aid is planned from outside, it is our conviction that a country should grow starting from the strength of its own inhabitants. SYPO invests in the initiative of local people. Our projects often have commercial aspects, and as such their sustainable nature is ensured; the projects grow because of their own success. SYPO consistently aims to find ways to help more effectively, by learning from its own experience. For this reason, we invest a lot of effort to evaluating our own projects, and we have a results based method of working.

SYPO has started three projects in Uganda; all entrepreneurial and bottom-up. The NGO started in 2003, with the "Yoghurt project". In this project, SYPO donated pregnant Friesian cows to women willing to take in an orphan in their families, and we constructed a yoghurt factory in order to provide the local Ugandan aid organisation Pat the Child with an independent and reliable income. In later years, we started several other projects. You can read about SYPO's largest project: a microfinance project that provides small loans to women in the Mukono district, in order to help alleviate their poverty. Another project, MediStructures, uses an innovative strategy to develop medical care in the region, working together with the government and investing in the initiative and commitment of local people. Finally, you can volunteer in Uganda through our project Counterpart Travels.