Enhancing Rural Girls' Education and Wellbeing

DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS DONATION TO HOPE FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION BENEFICIARIES. APRIL 2020

1. Introduction

This report presents the distribution of educational materials and the experience of Hope for Children’s Health Foundation Team.

This project provides education, nutrition, and healthcare to the girl child with an aim of improving enrollment and retention of girls missing out of school in a very rural area of Kyangwali in Uganda.  The rural areas of Hoima district are characterized by severe poverty, harmful cultural and traditional attitudes, beliefs and practices such as early marriage, and poor management of sexual maturation, impact of HIV/AIDS at household level, teenage pregnancy, and dis-empowerment of girls.

Children attending school in Rural Communities of Uganda face a great number of challenges like: lack of materials to use at school, lack of food, walking long distances, lack of clean and safe water, among others.

Reaching out to orphans and vulnerable children staying in poor rural community schools with scholastic materials is one of the key activities of Hope for Children’s Health Foundation-Uganda (HCHFUG). Due to the COVID situation it has affected children to study and we are supporting them to study from home with reading materials.

On 18^th April 2020, we reached out to over 15 children staying in Kyangwali village with scholastic materials like: Pens, Pencils, Exercise Books and Mathematical Geometry Sets. This donation was sponsored by well-wishers and partners under GlobalGiving and we thank you all for the support.

Lastly, we still need more support and feel free to contact us with a donation of any kind and we shall be able to reach out to as many needy children as possible and be able to pay for them school fees as well.

Prepared by

John Mwesigwa

Project Leader

On Behalf of Hope for Children Health Foundation-Uganda

• Report on distribution of scholastic materials. (PDF)
  

Progress report for Hope for Children’s Health Foundation on Nutrition Support-28-12-2019

Background

Hope for Children’s Health Foundation is currently implementing Health and Education programs among the nationals in Kyangwali Subcounty and so far we have supported 30 orphaned children and adolescents to access better education in the surrounding primary schools by paying for them school fees and providing scholastic and sanitary materials and we have more 68 orphans and vulnerable children who need our support, currently we have reached 6 villages in Kyangwali and 15 more to go. Through a holistic approach we have been able to reach 43 care givers of these beneficiaries in our outreach programs and supported them with economic strengthening programs.

There is a target to reach 68 Orphans and Vulnerable children to be supported under the OVC program if we reached our fundraising goal through Global Giving.

Achievements

Hope for Children’s Health Foundation was able to implement a Nutrition program-providing food rations to severely malnourished children under this project, 3 beneficiaries were supported and are progressing very well and the relationship between the organization and community structures has made us achieve all these targets.

Gap/challenges

• There are currently 25 young people out of school who need to be supported with vocational skills trainings such that they can be self-employed and get income to sustain themselves and their families.

• We have 68 orphaned children who need to be provided with scholastic materials and have their school fees paid as well such that they can have access to better education. We have more 10 malnourished children who need support

Appreciation

On my behalf and that of my team we would like to thank our donors and well-wishers, Community development officers, local leaders, village health teams and expert clients, for their support during the project implementation and we are indeed grateful because we could not have reached this far without your support and also request you our donors, well-wishers, individuals who can help with supporting us start the vocational skills training program to our 25 young people who have finished Secondary education and they are staying home due to lack of school fees to have a better future, we hope there is need to empower and support them get the technical skills and be self-employed to create a difference in the lives of their families.

• Progress report on Nutrition Project (PDF)