OMA Foundation is a Christian, youth-centred organisation registered as a Community-Based Organisation located in Gulu District, northern Uganda. The organisation started fully operating in January 2019 and was founded by Dima Chris and Ongeyowun Gloria Dima.  Chris and Gloria formed the organisation to empower the vulnerable youths to become self-reliant and dependable members in their households, different communities and the country at large.

Although the Northern region is finally at peace after the war that had taken over 20 years, many youths were either left orphaned, hopeless and unskilled. In so doing, they have gambled their way through life. Those who have and can still access education are not certain of what lies ahead for them. The in-depth understanding of what is entailed and what they ought to do to be able to find and have meaning in life is still scanty: that is why we still have cases of dropouts for reasons such as going to get married, lack of interest in education, peer pressure, poor career guidance, substance abuse, domestic violence, the vicious cycle of poverty running in some of these households to mention but a few. It is devastating, more so, when a guardian or parent pushes their young daughter to get married at an unprepared age.  Often it’s the case because her marriage comes along with a bride price tagged on to it.