| out Lufafa | Mafubira community clinic and El Shadai children’s home have been established due to the high mortality rate of the orphans who are suffering, starving , helpless and dying without medical care, food, shelter and clothing, in Jinja district.So many people in our community have been affected by the hiv/aids virus,this has affected their immunity hence many have died,many are immune supressed and so many helpless widows and orphans have been left. The project is aimed at promoting the standard of living of the orphans in this community and alleviating their suffering. The project has been securing support from the people in our local church,compassionate friends and some other well wishers, but because we are operating in a very poor community,the support we get is just a drop of milk in an ocean.We aquired a peace of land with one building where mafubira community clinic is operating right now.We also acquired a piece of land in Butiki Village, Mafubira Sub county, Jinja District and the consolidated team later mobilized the church members to put up a permanent block, the first permanent block on the site. The Project though with a number of emotionally sick children, it has very good services exhibited in the area. This has proved that indigent children, when given chance can compete with those from rich families within Jinja District but we are always limited by inserficient funds.We have challenges like lack of enough medical drugs and other medical supplies and equipments and we pray that God can send us some greate compassionate friends to stand with us on a monthly basis and be sending us some support for the project every month.We are also challenged by lack of school fees to take the orphans to school .We plan to start a paultry keeping project,to keep Egg laying birds and brailer birds that we think we shall be selling and the money will help us solve the problem of lack of school fees.We are also challenged by the buying of the daily food to feed the children,we plan to rent gurdens where we can grow more food to over come the problem of lack of enough food to feed the orphans. .we plan to expand the children dometories,the clinic and bring the safe water close to the children home. With belief that thoughtful support from donors or any compassionate friend would continue to inspire us, we are sure that we will achieve all our aims. We lack a school with facilities to provide education which will produce a whole person i.e. an individual all round in life: spiritually, psychologica lly and physically, a clinic at the organization that will enhance sustainable improved quality of care and increased level health service for the children and community at large It is for this cause that we stand in to develop our children’s home i.e. put in place a good primary school expand our dometories, a clinic and a permanent residential block, owing to our partial potentials (organizational skills), only experiencing lack of funds. MISSION To build capacity in Uganda for the delivery of sustainable high-quality care, national capacity building by bringing up young children as Psychological stable, God fearing and friendly citizens and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases through training and research with the local community. GOAL OF El SHADAI CHILDREN’S HOME AND MAFUBIRA COMMUNITY CLINIC Sustainable improved quality of care and increased level of service for the orphaned and vulnerable children in Jinja and Uganda. This overall goal will be achieved by reaching the following sub-goals: Improved capacity of health care services to offer high-quality care through • Enhancing skills of health care workers • Strengthening health systems Improved capacity of academic excellence through • Strengthening facilities for training the children and other vulnerable people • Improving governance and management systems. These goals will be measured using the following outcomes: • Year-on-year improvement in quality of care and increased level of service to the vulnerable and institutions involved in programs • Specific metrics, targets, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems (to be designed by the end of 2012, including baseline surveys and evaluative instruments) OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this project that was set up by the members of the community through efforts of local church are:- To cater for the Needy/Poor children especially orphans and helpless children in Jinja district by providing shelter, medical care ,clothing, food and education. Introduce vocation training courses for child mothers and youths. To mobilize, sensitize and organize women in management training whereby the project has to serve as the training center. To fight poverty through participatory eradication of poverty programmes with the assistance of the relevant ministries. PROJECTS: We had tried on a tree planting project at the slopes of Igenge Hill. We had in place about 7000 pine trees which could now be about 2 years old. We hoped at maturity these would fetch us some good money to run the project. To our disappointment the government later sold off the land to private investors and all our efforts were shuttered we would like to have this project expanded, but limited by funds. LOCATION The project is located behind Butiki Hill as shown below:- Country - Uganda District - Jinja County - Butembe Sub-county - Mafubira Parish - mafubira Village - Butiki FEASIBILITY STUDY: Uganda is a Land Locked country, which has been hit hard by diseases and poverty. Demographic: In Uganda the population has grown at quite a rapid pace. Taking for example the population census from 1948 to the latest (2002): Index 1948 1959 1969 1980 1991 2002 Population 5.0 6.5 9.5 12.6 16.7 24.7 Population increase 1.5 3.0 3.1 4.1 8.0 Sex composition of the population: The study of the Sex composition of the population helps us to understand the past trends of the population change. The sex ratio defined as number of males per 100 females is an index comparing the numerical balance between the two sexes in different population groups irrespective of their size, location and time reference. There are 12.1 million males as compared to 12.6 million females. This gives a sex ratio of 96.0 males per 100 females. Hence need for emphasizing girl child education, being the majority. Population Density of Uganda. Index 1969 1980 1991 2002 Density(per sq km) 48 64 85 126 Population growth Rates Index 1948-59 1959-69 1969-80 1980-91 1991-02 Inter-censal Annual growth rate 2.54 3.84 2.71 2.52 3.4 This is a high growth rate when compared with the neighboring countries i.e. 2.0% for Kenya, 2.7% for Tanzania and 2.2% Rwanda. IMPLICATION OF POPULATION CENSUS RESULTS Given a birth rate of 47.3 per 1000, a total of 1.4 million births are expected in 2011. This is not surprising given that the women of reproductive age (15 - 49 years) are estimated to be 5 million. The primary school age (10 – 24 years) are estimated at over 9 millions. This is the population that generates the momentum for the population growth. If Uganda maintains the current population growth rate of 3.4% per annum, the population will increase to 54 million in the year 2050 i.e. doubling in less than 25 years. EDUCATION: The sector plays a vital role in promoting sustainable development through building capacity in various skills as well as raising awareness on various issues of National and International importance. Enrolment has been increasing but facilities available are very few to accommodate all or most of the pupils/Students who desire to have Education. The facilities have remained the same over years to host the increasing numbers of learners. Also due to other factors such as lack of funding, many children end up dropping out of schools, without any skills gained. It is for this cause that we have set ourselves to the service, to assist such children. We’re setting up projects e.g. tree planting, poultry farming/animal husbandry for purposes of learning and also income generating to help us sustain a number of children under that category. Very important too, we would like to establish a secondary/vocational school to produce children who would have attained skills to help them earn a living especially those who may not be able to push on with higher education. CAUSES OF LACK OF FUNDING FOR SOME CHILDREN: HEALTH: Bad health because of malaria and HIV/AIDS, continue to be the number one problem for the people. This confirms the poor quality of life as reflected in the high infant and maternal mortality rates. Of concern is the poor quality of health services, which is partly a result of underfunding resulting into unhealthy bodies and high death rates leaving behind many orphans. Impacts of HIV/AIDS: In Uganda, the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS as of December 2001 was 1,050,555 and the estimated cumulative death since the beginning of the epidemic was 947,552(Surveillance reports). Food insecurity degraded livelihoods; increased vulnerability and adverse socio-economic impacts have been identified in many instances as causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS. Different impacts on different livelihood groups by HIV/AIDS have been observed in the country. Reduced labor supply and productivity: Especially on the most productive segment of the population, loss of skilled labour and the agricultural knowledge base. The reduced capacity for agricultural output results in food insecurity, low incomes and poverty. High opportunity costs: The loss of time and money attending to the sick, poor performances on the job by those already infected and costs of burials. Increased dependency ratios: Number of orphans left behind by the loss of parents has increased placing excessive burdens on individuals and household economics. There are different gender and age dimensions of this impact: There has been an increase in grandparent-widow, and youth/orphan headed households. Loss of Assets: Household assets are liquidated to meet medical and other costs. Low investment in the agriculture sector: As the limited resources are diverted to caring for the sick and funeral expenses. Reduced production for the market: People produce at subsistence levels, which affect the urban consumers and downstream industries. In totality, HIV/AIDS threatens the attainment of the plan or modernization of Agriculture’s objectives. There is a need therefore to better integrate HIV/AIDS activities into the planning implementation, monitoring and evaluation of plan for modernization of agriculture activities. Some policies unwilling increase vulnerabilities to infection while others fail to capitalize on mitigating it. Unemployment: Due to lack of adequate education/skills many parents have remained unemployed. This has left many children on the streets, to look for ways to survive and hence forming a percentage of the street children. And even with some people having some qualification i.e. degree, diploma or certificate, the labour market within is very low. Poverty: Priority factors responsible for moving people into and out of poverty Moving in to poverty Moving out of poverty Priority factors responsible % of communities reporting of total Priority factors responsible % of communities reporting of total Alcoholism 42% Working hard/gainful employment 53% Polygamy 42% Multiple income sources 47% Insecurity and displacement 42% Access to land, property 47% Large families 37% Education/Literacy 37% Illness 37% Startup capital 21% Theft 37% Petty trade (women) 21% Landlessness 26% Surplus production and good prices 21% High/unfair taxes 21% Child Poverty: 62% of the poor in Uganda are children. Yet this group has not been consulted as part of the poverty eradication Action Plan process, nor have their rights been addressed specifically. As a result the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Commissioned a study on children poverty conducted by save the children UK. The report, entitled “The Silent Majority”, made the following conclusions:- Children fall in to a broad range of poverty, which should be mirrored by a broad range of indicators. Despite a general drop in the proportion of poor in Uganda, there are large and growing groups of children in need of assistance, care and protection. Children are a low priority group and their interests are not disaggregated from those of adults. This calls for separation of these statistics. Orphans and Neglected Children: Key mediating factors for vulnerability: Being part of large families lacking facilities. Lack of social support and social protection mechanism. Being physically disabled. Lack of basic necessities food, housing and clothing Staying in large families with limited parental care Living with HIV/AIDS. No support for health and Education. Inadequate education or vocation skills. Ignorance and lack of information. Traditional role ascribed by society(female) DELIQUENCY AS A RESULT OF POVERTY: A delinquent is a young person who behaves in a way that is illegal or unacceptable to most members within a given society. The phrase JUVENILE DELIQUENCY is used to refer to crimes committed by young people and JUVENILE DELIQUENTS are young people who commit crimes. Previously, the court of law ignored crimes which were committed by children below 18 years. Today in the Ugandan court of law, under sub section 514(2) of the penal code, a child who at that material time of an alleged offence is between 7 – 12 years can be charged if the court finds that the time the alleged crime was committed, the child actually knew that what he/she was doing was wrong. According to MARTON – 1957, he proposed that crime and delinquency grow out of an imbalance between the approved goals of society and the means that the social structure provided for achieving them. COHEN – 1955, said the main problem of the youths leading them to crime as being the current status. According to him, large numbers of lower class youths experience status problems because of their failure to meet middle class standards and values. EFFECTS OF CONVICTION: When one is convicted, the following observations may be true: Becker – 1963, suggested that the experience of being caught or being arrested and officially labeled deviant may be a crucial step in building stable criminal behaviour. Farrington – 1977, Viewed convicted youths as becoming more aggressive. Further it was noted that imprisonment helps to bring together criminals of various skills and experiences. The prison environment makes it possible for criminals to teach one another the various criminal skills and attitudes. There is a great danger that those who enter prison as novices, come out as experts. All this is coming up as a result of many children lacking one to care for them. They grow up lacking secure attachments, which attachments develops as a result of one’s close and loving relationships with his/her parents or caring adults. Individuals who enjoy an affectionate relationship with their parents during infancy have been found to internalize rules easily by the process of identification and to develop guilt feelings in the case of any wrong. Internalization of rules and guilt are all associated with non delinquent behaviour. We find it therefore a very important role we MUST accomplish, to set up a family where the homeless should enjoy parental love. The family has been universally acknowledged as the basic institution in molding the behaviour of human beings. It is the primary agency for socialization. Most of the earliest development and learning takes place within the family setting. This is our duty now if we are to build a society with less crime, enjoyable to dwell in. And the reverse is true. We should prepare the youth to avoid the gates of prisons as much as possible. Hence the importance of self-reliance Area of Operation(Location) Butiki village, Mafubira subcounty, Butembe County, Jinja District District Population per county: Butembe County Male Female Total Busedde 15107 15951 31058 Kakira 15324 12729 28053 Mafubira 37392 38918 76310 67823 67598 135421 |
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