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Happy Hours Ministry Uganda

Realizing the government effort to fight and uplift and empower the young generation in Uganda we observed that there is still great need to fight for the young generation in our communities most especially the Orphans and Vulnerable children (OVCs).

Appreciating and convinced that improved livelihood is sustainable through; - Technological transfer, research and information dissemination for development, Information sharing and networking among partners and stake holders, Training of project beneficiaries in areas directly related to their needs and development objectives, Joint effort and collective response to support and empower the needy children through mobilization of resources and networking among partners and stake holders.

Happy Hours Ministry Uganda is non-profit community-based organization in wanyange located in the eastern region of Uganda. The project has registered over 120 vulnerable children from the area. Our objectives majorly include;

Establishment of a home for the homeless, distressed and those living with disabilities and orphans through providing immediate needs and other timely needs of orphans and nurturing sick and malnourished Orphan children for better health and keep them well and strong through child survival program.

Children a constitute large percentage of population in Uganda. the child should grow up in a family Environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love, guidance and understanding! From a child’s physical and mental development, they require care in regard to physical, mental, moral and social development. But social indicators show a decline in social and economic welfare of children. Low levels of education among the whole population of the community has also been attributed to the increasing number of Orphan children as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic that shook the country and world at large, poverty and poor health conditions.

Once we secure the funds it will be a permanent model rehabilitation center for other parts of the Eastern region and Uganda as whole. In addition to this the project will be sustained in the following ways;

• Accessing funds from global donors,
• Initiating micro projects,
• contribution from project beneficiaries and
• Community Participation

Happy Hours Ministry Uganda was founded in 2019 as non-profit community-based organization in the eastern region of Uganda by Auma Betty (orphange director). It was started by a team of dedicated persons with the aim of helping the children affected and infected with HIV/AIDS and we later incorporated sustainability programs and livelihood as a model to better combat the covid-19 pandemic.

We run the center in wanyange in the eastern Region of Uganda. Happy Hours Ministry Uganda is able to provide a small orphanage project that will provide children with a safe and stable home, education and support throughout their childhood. This will be a solution of solving the problems hidden by the fact that orphans and vulnerable children are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that are classified as disadvantaged and poor in Uganda.

In jinja district like any other areas of the World, there is growing number of Orphaned and homeless children caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and other illnesses.

Findings still shows that children in abject problems are recognized by rather elementary (as opposed to sophisticated) criteria. Top on the list is absence of basic necessities such as shelter, food, clothing and water. Equally important is the ‘human condition’ in terms of physical health and parental care and protection. While there seems to be national consensus among donors, the public sector and civil society that the government has made commendable progress in implementing PEAP (Poverty Eradication Action Plan) as flexibly as possible, it’s evolving nature, due to the participatory and consultative reviews it undergoes regularly, does not address many of the development challenges disadvantaged children face today. It would take lobbying and advocacy interventions to ensure that the needs and demands of children in abject poverty are met.

According to UNESCO 2003 study on Children in Abject Poverty in Uganda indicates that: Ill health and inadequate health services remain critical challenges for children in abject poverty. This is aggravated by the living conditions of children in almost all the districts of Uganda where the pilot study was carried out.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The project objectives are majorly but not limited to: The establishment of a home for the homeless, distressed vulnerable children. Providing immediate needs and other timely needs of orphans like food, clothing, shelter and elementary education for the orphans, training them in the self-reliance skills that will be available at the center. Nurture sick and malnourished Orphan children for better health and keep them well and strong through child survival program. Establish a learning center to impart the enrolled young adults with sustainable livelihood skills.

1.3 MISSION

To create an environment in which every Orphan and Vulnerable child is cared for spiritually, morally, intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally.

1.4 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love, guidance and understanding! From a child’s physical and mental development, they require care in regard to physical, mental, moral and social development. Rural parts of Uganda have got large number of orphans than urban centers because people living in rural areas are not sensitized on prevention methods of HIV/AIDS. The age of orphans, however, is fairly consistent across parts of the country. Surveys suggest that about 15% of orphans are 0-4 years old, 35% are 5-9 years old, and 50% are 10-14 years old. But despite of the efforts to improve the lives of the children, social indicators continue to show a decline in social and economic welfare of children. Also low levels of education among the whole population of the community has also been attributed to the increasing number of Orphan children as a result of HIV and AIDS scourge, poverty and poor health conditions. Worst of all, the child-headed household trend in Uganda is such that rural areas have 79.9%, of which 49.6% are male-headed and 30.3% are female-headed. The trend in urban areas is that of the 20% child-headed households, 10.5% are male-headed whereas 9.6% are female-headed (Uganda Bureau of Statistics-UBOS, 2000).

The complexity of the problem of child poverty in Uganda is large and growing, and cannot be ignored when designing national development and poverty reduction strategies. Unfortunately, children especially orphans continue to be marginalized irrespective of interventions where by assumptions are made that interventions that address adult and household needs are also good for all children, including boys and girls of school-going and non-school-going ages. This partly explains why child poverty is underrepresented in most studies on poverty in Uganda (Save the Children UK, 2003)

1.5 PROJECT DURATION

Once we get the funds it will be a permanent model center for other parts of Eastern Uganda although it will be subjected to forensic yearly audits and evaluation to determine its viability

3.0 PROPOSED SOLUTION

It is against the above background that Happy Hours Ministry Uganda intends to come up an enabling environment for the disadvantages, vulnerable children of school going age to access quality secular and theological education and other basic needs. So far, Happy Hours Ministry Uganda is already with communities assisting vulnerable children by providing full and half students, giving basic needs like clothes, shoes, medication, food, shelter, and bursaries. Since 2017, the management in conjunction with well-wishers we still need more support and donations from good hearted people

The above well intended initiative not withstanding; there has been precedent In this proposed project, the Orphanage Home intends to provide support to 33 orphans and vulnerable children: the proposed support will range from tuition fees, functional fees, meals, scholastic materials, beddings and medical care. With this support, the plight of children from the poorest of the poor and those that lost guardians will be rest assured of attaining at least secondary level education under our support which we pray that we will receive from good hearted people.

THE PURPOSE

The purpose of this proposed project is to support 33 disadvantaged and vulnerable children in different communities across the country by providing educational and basic needs of 33 students on an annual basis. The project will also support construction of a modern home to accommodate the ever increasing number of orphans.