Every day, young men and women in Uganda and East Africa and africa as whole are defending human rights, their safety is compromised, their organizations are least or never funded yet they significantly advance a free, safer, democratic and accountable societies. They can only be helped to sustain their work, find protection, legal support, temporary relocation or financial support among others towards their organizations only if there are significant steps, processes and intitiaves to ehnace their capacity, strethgthen networks of solidarity.