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Bringing Hope To The Family

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A firm committement to helping improve the quality of life of orphans, HIV victims and vulnerable children.Through free ARVs, Free Education, Free Healthcare and VCT services, Agriculture inputs and many more.Join Us in the fight.

Bringing Hope To The Family

The Real Hope!

showing God's love in practical ways to orphans,HIV victims and disadvantaged children by restoring hope enabling each child to reach their fullest potential in life and become productive members of society.Join Us

Helping The Vulnarable ones

Helping the Young ones

When you help a child, You are helping the whole family as well as the whole community, thats why we aspire to more more children every year.

Educating The Orphans

Image taken from the movie "Transformers"

Aware of the very high number of poor orphaned children, we provide free elementary education and affordable vocational training to foster development through practical skills.

About Bringing Hope To the Family

Our Achievements!

Bringing Hope to the Family has been operating in the district of Kyenjojo and plans to extend to the district of Kibale, Kamwenge and Kabarole. We have already received requests to extend to these districts.

Purchase of Land. The project currently owns a 4 acre plot and on this land we want to build a technical school, a mini hospital, staff home, and the project offices. We are planning to purchase and additional 15 acres of land for the construction of a secondary a school.

The project is currently working with 98 children and 27 widows. The need is greater than this but we have given fist priority to those that are total orphans and those that are in greater need.

Our tailoring classes for the widows and young girls is currently operating with 6 sewing machines. Two of these machines where donated to us by the International Women organization and the others donated by friends. We currently have ten active students.

Medical Attention. Mrs. Edrona Bakiiza, a retired Nurse and a volunteer in this project, helps with the counseling and recommending children to hospitals and administers treatment when necessary. Her son is a medical doctor.

Regular Classes and Training. Working with children every first and last Saturday of the month teaching them various skills.

School programs. Our project has school programs and we visit schools to educate children on issues of HIV/AIDS and currently we are working with the one local school Kaihura Primary school.

Distribution for Samaritan Purse. We have worked with Samaritan Purse's "Operation Christmas Child" by performing the distribution of boxes to the intended needy children.

Operated for 2 years on faith donations. We started the project without any investment capital and have added programs since our humble beginnings.

Obtained a commitment to build 10 houses from the East Kampala Rotary Club for the orphans and widows in the Kaihura Trading Center village where the Project office is located.

Our Challenges

Lack of sponsorship for each child makes it difficult to provide to the children on day-to-day basis, and even more so when they are sick, things such as scholastic materials, clothing, and bedding. We need support of $15 - 25 per month to help an orphan go to school and have a happy life.

Inadaquate facilities in terms of office space and other operation requirements .

Transport to reach out to the people effectively, to visit the children, and work with the communities. We have many women groups in different villages we visit, but in a week you cannot visit more than two because of the communication to the deep villages and the lack of a project vehicle.

Renting of office premises drains resources that could otherwise be used more directly for the benefit of the children and widows. It is our desire that we be helped to construct an office block and a home for the domestic science girls that travel long distances on foot for the domestic science training.

Good instructors need to be well paid if we are going to produce good girls in tailoring, cookery, domestic care, typing, and nutrition as young mothers.

The widows need to be equipped with income generating skills which can bring in at least 20 dollars in a month to be able to support the families and enable the children to be well nurtured.

Our Needs!

Needs

We desire $2283.50 monthly to provide for 105 of our children in primary school, secondary school and those in the Domestic science school or individual sponsors for every child for about $15 -25 a month.

We need to raise more support for the orphans on a monthly basis to be able to provide for more of our children in primary school, secondary school and providing to those in the Domestic Science School. Education is the only reliable way in Africa to overcome poverty.

We need more financial support on a monthly basis in order to increase our travel to the villages and work with the women groups, to pay rent, electricity, water, welfare, teacher salaries, and security. We are looking for more individuals or organizations to join our existing supporters in meeting the monthly $605.20 required to operate on a day-to-day basis.

We need financial support to initiate a program that would provide each family unit with a cow. This cow can provide 110ltrs of milk monthly. This would bring in an income of $18 monthly and would take care of the basic needs of one family. A cow ready to give birth to a calf and providing milk can be purchased for apprx. $300. The calf would be given back to the Project who would donate it to another family. In this way, $300 is buying 2 cows.

Support for the for $2500 craft project is needed to equip widows in becoming self-supporting.

We need a vehicle and a scooter bike to help us be more effective and timely while we work with the sick and families in to the deep village.

We need equipment: A computer, a printer, generator, a scanner or digital camera, a photocopier, typewriters, video camera, VCR (to show educational films to the children at the children's center), a film projector, and educational films for the young people in schools. These tools will enable us to teach vocational and training skills. There is little hope for a villager to obtain the money required to move to another town and attend a school. We must bring the school to them.

We are in need of Carpentry tools for vocational training for the boys who drop out in primary school and are unable to continue with education due to lack of school fees.

Construction of office block and dormitory for the girls (Domestic Science school) and the clinic. The land is already available.

Methodology

It is beneficial for the reader to understand that the cost to provide the needed resources in Uganda is very inexpensive as viewed by the world economy (particularly labor, food, rent ). Further, the beneficial exchange rates of U.S. dollars, the British Pound, or the Euro provides great leverage. (The dollar amounts quoted herein are in USD)

Our approach is one of making an investment in the individual or programs that are designed to become not only self supporting, but one where the individual contributes back to the project in assistance of still others.

By way of example, if we provide a pregnant cow to an orphan or family unit they will soon have a calf to donate back to another project family and will be ready to milk and sell the milk in a short time.

Another example would be a scholarship program for school fees. The child will donate part of their income back to the Project from the job they are able to secure after graduation. Further, we will ask that they perform a community service project for their home village within 2 years after graduation.

Yet another example would be the fruit of the vocational training. Once the widow is able to produce products with her tailoring skills she can return part of the income back to the project as well as support her family unit.

Education is the only reliable way in Africa to overcome poverty. Education is not provided free by the government as in other countries. This means that the student must pay his school fees starting in secondary school through university. 'Government provided' primary schools are not available in every village and many children must pay to attend primary school. Even in government sponsored schools there is only a minimal support given. There are even fewer secondary, senior, and universities located near their village.

Upon reaching secondary school (7th grade) there is little hope for a villager to obtain the money required to move to another town and attend a school. We must bring the school to them. We are teaching our people to be job creators, not job seekers.

Services Offered To The Community!

Agricultural Inputs eg seeds,Suckers,Garden tools,etc
Safe Water provision through Digging of wells and sping wells.
Free Treatment at the HopeAgain Medicla Facility.
Schoolarships to students
Secretrial Services.

Bringing Hope News

We had the preveledge of hosting the King Of Tooro kingdom at our orphanage.

He came to offer hope to the Orphans at the HomeAgain Orphanage in Kaihura,Kyenjojo District. .

Uganda Poverty Study

"1.8 million children are not in school in Uganda. Instead they are forced to become child laborers. The biggest problem for parents and guardians is providing lunch, scholastic material and unifom. Some children spend a whole month without writing yet they are sent to school." The Observer Newspaper 4/20/2009. Sponsor a child's education today.

How we Provide assistance!

What we do

We provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children by assisting the orphans who are affected and Infected with HIV/AIDS, and the disadvantaged.

Children acquire formal and vocational schooling

Provide support to 600 orphans and vulnerable children for their basic needs; health, Education, food and shelter.

Providing Psychosocial support to 600 orphans and vulnerable children to meet their social and spiritual needs.

Equip volunteer caregivers with necessary skills and counseling techniques

· Promote positive changes in the community in order to reduce risk behaviors

Training leaders and pastors of local communities on their leadership and stewardship role in the communities around them as regards to HIV/AIDS.

Promotion of community dialogue on factors that contribute to HIV/AIDS such as risk behaviors, traditional and cultural practice, etc. through workshops and seminars.

Encouraging young people to abstinence and counseling them.

Developing simple and clear education messages and materials that can be used by volunteers.

Advocacy and awareness seminars to the young people, opinion leaders, politicians, traditional leaders to keep them informed on the epidemic.

· Improve the quality of life for people infected and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

Provision of Low cost shelter- to families with poor housing structure with priority to affected homes.

Helping start income generating activities for families affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

Equipping families and caretakers with vocational skills and tools that will enable then to be self-reliant.

Holding awareness seminars and short term courses on various aspects of life to increase the information flow that help reduce on the poverty level e.g. modern agriculture, malaria control simple book keeping etc.

Counseling for children and parents whose family is infected with HIV/AIDS

Projects

Dorcas Domestic Science School
Training girl orphans in tailoring, home management, and crafts. Some of the girls carry food from a distance of about 27km every weekend and come from very poor and HIV/AIDS affected home. For a gift of $30 monthly you can sponsor 2 girls into a future with Skills.

You can donate sewing machines, tailoring accessories, pieces of materials and support the training for a gift of $100 monthly you can keep the Instructors on course.

Heifer Program
For a gift of $330 you can donate an in-calf heifer to an HIV/AIDS affected family and provide much needed nutrition and income generation.

Small Grant
Support the HIV/AIDS infected woman by donating Small grants of $100 this help her start up a side income to support her and the family.

Low cost House Program
Four low cost houses have already been constructed to Families that have no houses through the Rotary Club in Kampala. You can help a family acquire a good permanent house for a cost of $1500.

Construction
You can also donate towards construction of;

Dorcas Domestic Science School
Office block
Church Building
Bible School
Guest House
Purchase Land

Costs in Uganda are very small in comparison to costs in the USA or UK. A small contribution goes a long way.

SEND A LOVE PARCEL PROGRAM

Christmas is a season of Joy and sharing to many people. Most of the people in Africa receive gifts in this season of the year and the house lords are planning for Christmas for those in their hose hold.

For many families that have been affected and infected by HIV/AIDS, Christmas is a season of sadness because it brings the memories of how their loved ones cared and provided in such a season. Sending a love parcel to these families will bring a smile on their faces and bring them the true joy of Christmas.

Our budget is reaching 600 families, which are currently under the Bringing Hope to the Family Project. Join us in this cause of putting a smile the face of an orphans/widows for only 12000 UGSHS or $6

A Love Parcel contains;

2kg of Sugar, 2bars of Soap, 3sachet of Salt, I family size Loaf of Bread, Blue Band, 1Litre Cooking oil, I packet of Sweets and a Christmas card!

Together we can do it.

Recognising and helping the efforts of the woman in our communities

Education of disadvantaged children.

Changing Lives

Bringing Hope To The Family is committed to helping improve the quality of lives of orphans and vulnerable children in Kyenjojo District. Over the last 9 years of operation we have helped to restore hope to children whose lives have been shattered by HIV/AIDS, poverty and unemployment through education,free health care, food, shelter and life skills to help them become self reliant.

We have also helped a number of HIV victims in kyenjojo with free VCT services, Free ARVs and family sponsorship programmes aimed at empowering these families to become self reliant.

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The Care We Provide To Orphans

We provide accomodation to those with out proper Homes and care.
VCT services and free treatment.
Psycho Social Support.
Food including supplimentary meals for the sick.
Free Education upto the level of P5
Free Vocational Training at Doscar Vocational Institute.
Transport tocentres with ARVs.
SOme are given Scholarships to further their studies.
Spiritual Support by the pastors.
Clothing including shoes for secondary Students.
Schoolarstic Materials for instance books,Pens,Mathematical sets etc.
Regular Home Visits for those staying their gurdians.
Child Rights Protection.