Partnership with SOVHEN Uganda
Project Profile
Supporting Orphans & Vulnerable for Better Health, Education and Nutrition in Uganda (SOVHEN Uganda) is a student founded legally registered Voluntary Not For Profit and Non Governmental Community based Organization, founded on 15th August 2001 to organize orphans and other vulnerable groups living in difficult circumstances in urban slum and rural areas of Uganda, build solidarity and cooperation among the target group, promote their economic and social development and improve their organizational ability.
Our mission is to struggle for a better quality of life and increased life expectancy for orphans and other vulnerable groups living in difficult circumstances. We will serve in purpose through community dialogue with the rights holders/claimers and duty bearers at individual, household, community, government, local government, religious, higher institutions of learning, private sector, media and international level building on existing community channels, their structures and networks, their resources and opportunities. Contact sovhenuganda@gmail.com to learn more.
Partner History
SOVHEN has been an Omprakash partner since summer 2008.
Need for Material Resources
Institutional building: USD $ 6,000 is needed to purchase a truck for transport of SOVHEN Uganda duty bearers in our 4 districts of service for rights holders/claimers group formation, village organization and creation of a federation through community dialogue.(hiring is not cost effective)
The objectives of institutional building programme are to: create solidarity and cooperation among duty bearers and rights holders/claimers with particularly emphasis on orphans and their households participation: build the capacity of group members for sustainable development: encourage groups towards collective action to use natural resources for income generation, support individual groups in conflict resolution, problem solving and development so that groups can manage their activities independently, and enable the orphans and their households to participate in the national development process.
Eduaction:
- Adult literacy program: $1000 per year fully sponsors Adult literacy program
The objectives of the Adult literacy program (ALP) are to provide surviving parents and other orphan care caregivers in their groups with an opportunity to: learn how to read and write their names and addresses: understand group dynamism; understand the importance of child education and help their children in basic education.
- Non Formal Pre- Primary Education: for $15 per month you can sponsor an orphan living in difficult circumstances in households: separated from their siblings, widow and child headed, impoverished and abusive, institutional care, old and frail grand parents, orphans who have become children street children, refugees or internally displaced, HIV+ orphans, orphans who are being used as child laborers by meeting his/her pre primary education, scholastic materials, feeding, clothing, medical care and other essentials. What is required is a start up fee of $50 and then a monthly support fee of $15 thereafter. Detailed information, photographs and background of the boy/girl pr child will be provided to his/her sponsor
-Non Formal Post Primary Education: for $30 per month you can sponsor an orphan living in difficult circumstances in households: separated from their siblings, widow and child headed, impoverished and abusive, institutional care, old and frail grand parents, orphans who have become children street children, refugees or internally displaced, HIV+ orphans, orphans who are being used as child laborers by meeting his/her post primary education, scholastic materials, feeding, clothing, medical care and other essentials. What is required is a start up fee of $100 and then a monthly support fee of $30 thereafter. Detailed information, photographs and background of the boy/girl per child will be provided to his/her sponsor
Books: SOVHEN Uganda is in constant need for books for our mobile reading tent with an aim to develop life long reading skills and culture and to encourage literacy. The mobile reading tent targets less advantaged children in our rural and urban slum areas of service in order to inculcate the reading culture and introduce them to libraries at an early age.
Clothing: We are in constant need of clothing to improve on the health and well being of the rights holders that we serve. They are 400 children below 18 years who have lost one both parents. Their numbers include orphans in households: separated from their siblings, widow and child headed, impoverished and abusive, institutional care, old and frail grand parents, orphans who have become children street children, refugees or internally displaced, HIV+ orphans, orphans who are being used as child laborers.
Shelter: For $6000 we can have a home for the suffering hard to place children who include orphans who have-not been successfully traced, handicapped children, and groups of siblings. The home will enable us create a safe loving and nurturing environment for these rights holders/claimers as we plan to accommodate more. They will be provided with health diet and good education while in the home. While in the home, these children will undergo discipline and behavior change before they are released back into the community. In the long run, we shall have these children growing up as God fearing and as the future generation of leaders who will have a value system that stops war and prevents diseases. When they are released back into the community as health, educated and well-adjusted adults they will surely play their part in re-building their country into a positive and prosperous nation.
Need for Volunteers
As duty bearers entrusted by society to fulfill the human rights of rights holders/claimers namely orphans, persons with disability, elderly, women, children) living in difficult circumstances in urban slum and rural areas of Uganda, we are in constant need of volunteers ( individuals and institutions ) both formal and informal from other countries to jointly play our parts as duty bearers with a responsibility of ensuring that the rights of orphans and other members of the society, especially those most vulnerable are attained.
Together with the volunteers we will build on existing community channels (groups and organizations), their structures and networks, their resources (manpower, funds, materials and structures) and opportunities in addressing prioritized issues of concerns for the rights holders/claimers in the areas of Institution building: Self Generating Fund: Education and Awareness Raising: Environmental health and nutrition.
The volunteers in collaboration with our 29 staff members (2 fulltime and 27 part-time) and our pool of 120 volunteers (35% out-of-school and 65% in-school) will live together with the rights holders/claimers and their surviving duty bearers in our villages of service in the rural areas of Mpigi, Masaka and Rakai and in the urban slum areas of Kampala. This arrangement provides another opportunity for the volunteers to assimilate the foreign culture and is important for their integration into the local community. The host family provides support, a sense of belonging and serves as a reference point to help orient the volunteers in their foreign environment.