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Hope Orphans Center-Iganga Newsletter and Background

BACKGROUND

Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga Uganda is a development focused initiative with its activities inclined to support the orphans and vulnerable children, support to people with disabilities, support to the elders, widows/widowers, support and care to the young mothers, identifying and support to destitute families, and evangelization of spiritual faith to the needy communities, plus social function management, capacity building, but also other income generating activities which are local, national, international CBO/NGO.
The organization was started in 2015 by Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga after seeing that there is a great number of street children and children living with HIV/AIDS in the community.
This was formed in order to help children from infant stage up to 18 years in case he/she is an orphan or helpless, these will be given clothes, scholastics materials, food, medication, gifts, shelter, safe drinking water and many more.

MOTTO VISION, MISSION AND GOAL
OUR MOTTO
Restore the happiness for needy
VISION
To provide children with basic needs and vulnerable support.
MISSION
“To ensure that all children and needy people get basic needs with their rights observed and respected”
GOAL
“To reach out all kinds of orphans and helpless children in the community of Bugweri district and other areas in Uganda”
OBJECTIVES.
 Assessing child welfare needs for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children and coordinating resource for their care.
 Providing psychological care to orphans, widows and children whose lives have been affected by Aids.
 Empowering widows economically through pursuing income generating activities and vocational training.
 Providing formal education for orphan and vulnerable families are affected by AIDS.
 Sensitizing and educating communities with HIV/AIDS.
 Providing mobile palliative care for people living with aids.
 Providing spiritual care and support.
 To impart life skills and values that will help youths and vulnerable women, plus people with disabilities fight their life challenges like HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, peer influence, and immorality etc.
 Advocating and creating for articulating orphans’ concerns, issues, rights and interests.
 To promote voluntary action and work in partnership with economically disadvantaged groups most especially youths, widows, people with disabilities, women and children.
 To evangelize the Gospel of God so as to heal the spiritually unempowered people.
STRATEGIC AREAS AND ACTIVITIES
The organization shall engage in the following activities
1) Empower the care givers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)
2) To save orphans from frustrational conditions or engagements and all sorts of risks to their lives.
3) Capacity building to communities in order to direct them objectively
4) Spiritual evangelization.
5) To restore joy, care and love among the orphans and vulnerable children.
6) To improve on the health status of the orphans and vulnerable children.

MANAGEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION
NAME POSITION CONTACT
Naigaga Naume Director +256775059722
Kabweru Kenneth Ivan Assistant director +256774758108
Maganda Wilber Mobliser +256786731880
Mugonzi Judith Projects coordinator +256789196365
Kyakoba Teddy Children Trainer +256752740691
Mudondo Peruse Matron +256754618949
Nabirye joy Choir mistress +256754784304

THE CHILDREN UNDER OUR CARE
NAME SEX CLASS CURRENT SCHOOL
Naikwanga Joan F Senior Three Nkutu Memorial Ss
Naimwaga Yobu M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Logose Karen F - -
Kaziba Solomon M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Kaziba Sanon M Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Namayinde Rauthat F - -
Kisige Sare M - -
Nkaire Souce M Primary Seven Lubira Primary School
Nabaigwa Sandra F Primary Seven Lubira Primary School
Wanzige Reagan M Senior One Devine Hope Ss
Nangobi Shanitah F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Nangobi Shirat F Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Mutesi Erina F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Nangobi Peruse F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Mutesi Elizabeth F Primary Two Lubira Primary School
Maganda fahad M Middle Class God’s Mercy Primary School
Nakayima tahia F Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Nfaki Samuel M Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Balaba Wilson M Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Nabwire Olivia F Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Osaka Gerald M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Muwaya James M - -
Kakaire Abu M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Kakaire Alamanzan M Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Naigulu Racheal F Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Wakibi Eria M Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Nabirye Mwamini F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Bulage Aisha F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Balisengawa Isaac M Primary Five Bumoozi primary school
Mutesi Sophie F Primary Four Bumoozi primary school
Nabakooza Retisha F Middle Class Bumoozi primary school
Nabawanika Shakirah F - -
Namaganda Hasifah F - -
Nabirye Mirabu F - -
Kikaire Yisa M - -
Kirunda Bumali M -

ACHIEVEMENTS OF HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE –IGANGA
EDUCATION
Education and termly school fees: Normally, the home has continuously provided proper education through sending the gathered children under our care to school as most of the children are in primary that have been supported in both government schools and others being sponsored to attend private school as well as educational scholastic materials. The Centre has continued to provide termly fees to children under our care without stopping. However, the challenge is that sometimes resources are not enough to cover up all the termly fees in time. Besides, the children move a long distance of 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school.

Continuous provision of scholastic materials. It is to our concern that every child deserves a right to access to scholastic materials to release his/her God- Given talent into good use. Normally, we have managed to continuously provide scholastic materials like books, pens and mathematical sets e.t.c before the beginning of every new term for the children to return back to school. The Centre has managed to provide a few school bags to some children under our care in addition to the scholastic materials. However, the challenge is that at the home, there is limited reading materials say holiday packages, text books and reading charts hence the thinking capacity of the children under our care as well as uplifting their performance to the top.
On the issue of playing materials; the home has managed to get a few play materials say dolls and balls though there is still limited / less materials for the children to use say netball, volley ball, chess, board games among others as the bible says let the little children enjoy while still young because when one grows, among things change.

BASIC NEEDS
Continuous provision of basic needs; The organization has continued to provide basic needs of life to the needy children and widows in the community since the Centre started up to date. These include toothpaste, soap, petroleum body jerry and among other items that are useful to the daily human life.
Continuous provision of clothing and shoes; As every after a term spent at school, the children at the home are provided with new clothing and shoes as those that they have been using get tone and cannot be repaired time after time unless replaced with new ones. The Centre has managed to provide 32 pairs of school shoes and 32 sandles to the needy children at home. We most times appeal to the good Samaritans with a giving heart to contribute the little they have to make this happen as this is now the biggest challenge at home amidst absence of enough funds to cater for the children’s clothing and shoes.
Continuous feeding of the children at the home: Normally on a daily basis, the home provides a well-spaced/balanced meal from breakfast, lunch to supper/ dinner) to the protected children under our care for a better health living. However, the challenge has been that, the home still lacks enough funds to purchase timely foodstuffs that are prepared at the home as sometimes meals are skipped to reach every child in the community.

Purchase of tables and chairs. The Centre has managed to acquire 5 plastic chairs and a big a big office counter and six benches that is being used by the children to have their meals in a comfortable environment. We thank God for what we have at the home even though we still need more tables and plastic chairs to cater for the available and ever increasing number of needy children that are being identified everyday within the community.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community visits; The Centre has continuously visited community members especially the widows and single mothers as well as elderly people in a way of giving them hope and courage to live a happy life. This has been done in a way to provide relief help in terms of food stuffs, moral support among others.
Clean-up outreaches Normally, the home carries out communal work and gives back to the community through a sensitization program carried out by our team and the few volunteers at the home. This has contributed a positive change in the few homes that have been reached out too for example caring for the widows and elderly who are in the community where the home is being located as these are no longer in position to cater for their needs and cannot even wash for themselves since they have no one around them to care for them.

Identifying and registering new children. Normally, the children’s home management has continued to identify new orphans especially those in the alarming state who are mostly without caretakers or guardians these include Nabaigwa Sandra, Nkaire Souce Peter, Wanzige Reagan, and Nangobi Shanita. Despite of the challenges, we have managed to reach at least a quite a number of the children who need in different aspects of life as every child deserves the best in life and for a vast happy future.

LAND
The Centre has managed to purchase another piece of land on addition to the one acre that was purchased in 2018 in preparation for the expansion of the home that will be more spaced to cater for the children who are under our care and also the proposed projects for the organization. The land purchased stretches 95 fits in by 135 fits and it is located adjacent the organization. This land has been also used for agriculture as we prepare to construct new structures.

AGRICULTURE
Introduction of income generating projects
The Centre has managed to establish new projects to help in raising extra incomes that are used to cater/cover other expenditures that may be encountered in the due course and also to try achieving self sustainability. However, there have been a number of challenges faced while managing these projects.
These projects include;

Chicken project; The organization has managed to rear a few chickens which are local in breed. They are 159 in number with an aim of getting eggs for the children and also to generate income for the organization to meet the unexpected expanses and also needs of the children under our care. However, these birds are being attacked by diseases and some thieves who were threatening us, good enough we managed to get a security guard who is providing us with security during the night hours.
Vegetable growing; The Centre has established a small demonstration plot on the newly purchased land where different varieties are being grown on the piece of land as a way to add on food supply that is mostly purchased from the market. These vegetables ranges from egg plants, sukuma wiki and solnum that have been grown for the children’s balanced deity while at the home.

Tree planting; In response to climate change, the Centre has embarked on tree planting on the purchased land as a way to preserve the environment and the earth at large as climate change cases are so rampant all around the world. We believe that the trees planted especially the fruit trees will be of great use to the children as at the same time will be providing shades during seasons and wind breakers during rainy season.

Crop growing; Despite the little space we have for agriculture, the organization has managed to hire pieces of land and grow a number of crops. We hired two acres of land for four years and grew a few food and root crops say ground nuts, sweet potatoes, cassava and maize. However there is a challenge of unfavorable climatic conditions say drought which was experienced for some months. Under this period, crop growing goes to a standstill

CURRENT CHALLENGES FACED AT HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE-IGANGA
1. The organization has registered significant achievements amidst the many challenges it faces and not limited too;-
2. First and foremost, the children move a long distance of nearly 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school. This is a very long distance to moved by a child of three years to move every morning and evening. We are of the view to establish a foundation school such that the children under our care get education right from the centre.
3. There is limited reading and school materials for example holiday packages, monthly packages, books among others of the children under our care especially to those who are being sponsored to attend school.
4. Limited monthly necessities/ basic needs at the Centre is a challenge despite of the efforts being used to aid in the supply of basic needs of life
5. Insufficient medication at the Centre that is carried out on weekly and monthly basis but this has been limited due to absence of enough funds to cover the costs of both medical check-up and treatment.
6. Limited playing materials and playing uniforms for the protected children at the home for example absence of both netball and footballs for the children, game boards among others all to enhance the thinking capacity of these children.
7. Absence of land for expansion on farming and animal rearing
8. Inadequate funding to pay workers
9. Lacks of enough office stationary as well as office requirements say computer, bookshelf and other materials.
10. Absence of organization website to update on the ongoing organization projects.
11. There of prolonged drought that makes our crops sometimes to dry up while still in the garden immature.

OUR PLANS AND NEEDS BOTH LONG TERM AND SHORT TERM
Crop growing
We are of the view to hire five acres of land to grow more food and vegetables so as to ensure food security.

Establishing a foundation school (Hope Junior School)
This has been considered vital as an attempt to cut off the children under our care from moving a long distance of nearly 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school. For more about this, refer to the hope junior school proposal.
Poultry farm

We are of the view to establish a soundable project that will be dealing in the rearing of chicken for commercial purposes so as to attain self-sustainability of the organization. See the budget below;
ITEM NUMBER AMOUNT IN UGX AMOUNT IN USD
One Day Old Chicks 1000 3700000 1057
Feeds 1000 4000000 1142
Poultry House 5 2000000 571
Feeders 50 250000 71
Drinkers 50 400000 114
TOTAL 10350000 2957

HOPE SKILLING CENTRE.
As an attempt to ensure that the children will be able to sustain themselves after here, we plan to establish a skilling centre that will equip with the children the vast skills for survival in the future. Hair dressing, tailoring and fashion design, computer skills, art and craft will be equipped with the children under our care. Below is a simple budget

ITEM QTY UNIT COST AMOUNT IN UGX AMOUNT IN USD
Buildings 3 2,000,000 6000000 1714.285714
Sawing Machines 30 400,000 12000000 3428.571429
Computers 30 600,000 18000000 5142.857143
Saloon 1 2,500,000 2500000 714.2857143
Total 11,000

COMPLETION OF THE HOME
We are expecting to plaster our home and do the finishing

MONTHLY REQUIREMENTS

OTHER NEEDS

PHOTO GALLERY OF HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE IGANGA
 

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DIRECTOR’S DETAILS
Name : Naigaga Naume
Country : Uganda
City : Iganga
Email : hopeorphanscentre@gmail.com
Mobile Number : +256775059722
Posta Number : P.O Box 2036, Iganga

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR’S DETAILS
Name : Kabweru Kenneth Ivan
Country : Uganda
City : Buwama
Email : hopeorphansc@gmail.com
Mobile Number : +256774758108
Posta Number : PO Box 2036, Iganga

Thank You So Much. May God Bless You and the Work of Your Hands