Uganda Humanist Association (UHASSO) was founded by Makerere University students and other leading personalities from the general public who looked forward to a modern, democratic and tolerant society that is not bogged down by primitive, expoitative tendencies that are/were responsible to disunity, anarchy and underdevelopment.

These young Ugandans wanted a new approach based on the centrality of the potential and rights of a human being to determine his/her life on earth.We were tired of the divisive tendencies of our elder citizens based on ethnicities, religions and politics.

UHASSO was first registered as an N.G.O. in 1996.