ULALO is here.
A community that needed no direction. A story that was always worth telling.
Watch now - link in bio.
🎥 Directed by Isaac Oboth of African Storytellers
📷 Robb Hohmann
A bridge changes a crossing; an access network changes a life.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐅𝐢𝐤𝐚, “𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞,” 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐲.
We still build bridges, and with governments and local builders, we finish the route: practical, low-cost, climate-smart links (trails, culverts, upkeep) that keep routes open all year, guided by evidence and tech.
Time returned. Incomes unlocked. Kids in class. Care reached when it’s needed.
Safe arrival as the standard, not the exception.
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Every new year brings a moment of pause; A breath between what’s been and what’s next. We’ve spent this past year building, questioning, and transforming.
Now, something new is on the horizon.
Not a change in mission, a change in magnitude. In clarity. In how we show up in the world.
Here’s to what’s coming and to never settling for “the way it’s always been.”
#NextChapter #TMinus5
For millions of children, the only way to school is long and dangerous.
Rural bridges create safer routes and shorter distances that avoid busy roads with no pedestrian protection.
#waystoschool @free.documentary
We spent a week at #ITF2026 with the global transport community, and there’s one message we kept coming back to: corridors don’t connect communities if the first mile isn’t funded.
Three sessions, one booth, and conversations we’re looking forward to continuing.
#ITFSummit #FundingResilientTransport #RuralAccess
Every culture, every language, every corner of the world: Mothers are the reason communities hold together.
They’re the first teachers, the quiet planners, and the ones who make sure everyone arrives at the table, at school, at the end of a hard day, safely.
Happy Mother’s Day to every mother, everywhere. Thank you for keeping your community whole.
School enrollment numbers don’t always tell the whole story. For millions of mothers, sending a child to school is a risk calculation, and behind every absent child is often the unfortunate reality that, today, the path was too dangerous.
This Mother’s Day, we’re thinking about every mother who has ever had to make that calculation, and every community still waiting for a safer option.
Exciting progress is happening in Sironko District!
Decking works have officially begun at the Buyi bridge site, one of 10 private-sector sites along the Namagumba-Budadiri Road Corridor financed by the @afdb_group .
While the bridge is being built by the team at Bole Engineering Limited under our supervision, this site is also home to a unique collaboration with @givedirectly and @givewellorganization .
We are launching a cost-effectiveness pilot study (Cash with Bridges) to examine a critical question: Can direct cash transfers, following bridge construction, accelerate and amplify gains from market participation?
Huge shoutout to Team Buyi for the hard work! We can’t wait to see the results of this pilot and what it means for the future of rural development.
The Sidebar: Beyond the main stage at #SkollWorldForum, we spent our week diving deep into the first mile of development.
Five sessions, endless conversations, and a whole lot of collective action.
Here are some of our favorite moments from the week.
Over the last 25 years, we’ve learned that access creates connections that ripple outward in ways we’ll never fully be able to trace.
With that in mind, we asked eight members of our team across programs, job functions, and tenures to write a love letter. Not to the organization, but to every person who has ever crossed one of our bridges. The letters speak for themselves.
Read them in full at the link in our bio, and if you’ve ever crossed a Fika-built or supported bridge, we want to hear from you. Share your experience in the comments below. 💚
On World Day for Safety and Health at Work, we’re proud to highlight a recent visit from Uganda’s Ministry of Works and Transport to our AfDB-financed Namafumba-Budadiri projects. 🏗️🌍
We host visits like this because the rigorous safeguards you see here are the expectations Fika has for every construction site. Our goal is to see these benchmarks adopted across the entire continent:
- Safety & Safeguards: Full alignment with AfDB’s Integrated Safeguards System to protect workers and the environment.
- Inclusive Opportunity: At least 20% of local labor allocated to women, ensuring safe and equitable economic empowerment.
- Local Accountability: Community-led bridge committees to ensure every project is transparent and built to last.
Responsible infrastructure links communities and guarantees that all participants are safeguarded, included, and supported.
Today is Earth Day.
We want to say something that doesn’t get said enough in our sector: The rural communities we partner with contributed almost nothing to the climate crisis, and yet, they’re absorbing some of its worst consequences.
Unpredictable floods, washed-out paths, harvests lost overnight.
These injustices shape how we build.
At Fika, environmental stewardship is embedded in how we design and deliver infrastructure. As we enter our 25th year with an expanded portfolio of practical, low-cost, climate-smart rural infrastructure, our commitment is simple: build only what’s needed, exactly where it’s needed, and make sure it lasts.
