The idea takes root
UWRF’s 2021 annual report records that Wanyera Jairus Mukoota founded the organisation in 2018. It also records that World Wheelchair Rugby granted national-member status in that year.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗History archive
From an idea
to a growing movement.
A dated record of sport, community support, organisational development, and public awareness since 2018.
How this archive was built
Evidence before assumption.
The archive combines UWRF’s public 2021 annual report, photographs contained in that report, federation accounts, and dated Ugandan media coverage.
Facebook helped identify the history, but older public posts are not always visible without signing in. Where a date or federation role could not be verified, the wording says so. Photographs are described from their documented context rather than used to invent a story.
2018 to today
The record so far.
A formal organisational step
The historical annual report records company registration in November 2020. Current public registration information is presented separately on the governance page.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗
Uganda’s first Level 1 coaching course
With World Wheelchair Rugby support, 15 participants from different sub-regions joined an online coaching course hosted at the Uganda Olympic Committee. The report states that five participants were certified as Level 1 wheelchair rugby coaches.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗
Food relief for athletes during COVID-19 restrictions
The report records an online fundraiser led through the federation president. UGX 500,000 from friends and well-wishers was used to provide maize flour, sugar, rice, and beans to athletes whose households were affected by the lockdown.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗
Training, recruitment, and public awareness
Coaches continued identifying athletes while the central-region team trained at Makerere sports ground. UBC, Excel TV, Monitor, social media, and other platforms helped introduce the sport and encourage participation.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗
Affiliation with the Uganda Paralympic Committee
The annual report records UWRF becoming a member of the Uganda Paralympic Committee during its general assembly, after an affiliation process that began earlier in the year.
Source: 2021 annual report ↗Regular activity and gradual development
Later reporting describes regular twice-weekly training and camps organised when resources allowed. Exact dates for every activity in these years are still being checked against original federation posts, photographs, and records, so this archive does not invent individual events.
Source: Observer profile ↗Coaching and two rugby chairs from Wheelchair Athletes Worldwide
Monitor reported that about ten people attended the wheelchair rugby sessions. Participants worked on rules, passing, carrying, positioning, scoring, and teamwork, while two rugby wheelchairs were delivered to the federation.
Source: Monitor coverage ↗Wheelchair rugby at the Kampala Disability Festival
NBS Sport reported that wheelchair rugby featured in the second Kampala Disability Festival at Kampala City Hall. This is part of the wider national disability-sport record; UWRF will add a more specific federation account when its original event record is confirmed.
Source: NBS Sport coverage ↗International learning, media, and the Masaka gala
Spanish visitors shared skills early in the year. Italian and English friends later joined activity around Tugende 2025, while Kampala and Wakiso clubs participated in the national disability-sport gala in Masaka.
Explore the activity stories →Tugende, Soroti, awareness, and community connection
The archive records Tugende 2026, participation at the national disability-sport gala in Soroti City, disability awareness at MUBS, and wider spinal-injury advocacy and community engagement.
Explore the activity stories →From the 2021 archive
Foundations being built.
These photographs were extracted from UWRF’s public 2021 annual report. The registration-certificate and signed-document images in that report are intentionally not republished here.
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