User:Hope Alive Uganda

Hope Alive Uganda is a non –government organization project which was formed by the community. It was started and opened officially in 2008 after registration (CBO) at Kisozi Buzaya-sub County in Kamuli district. Over 75 percent of the children in the county are unable to go to school, due to the death of their parents and some times even their guardians. Yet they have interest and they are well informed about the value of education. Most of them have died of HIV/AIDS, leaving a thousand of orphans without meaningful means of survival because all their past savings have been spent on feeding and treatment. Despite efforts by the government to enable everybody to access education through introducing Universal Primary Education (UPE), some children in Buzaya County have failed to continue their education. This is because they can’t afford scholastic materials, food, and other school requirements such as uniforms. Even at secondary school level - the government has tried all it can by introducing Universal Secondary Education (USE) - , still some children especially orphans and needy children are unable to go to school. Like the children at primary school, they can’t afford basic necessities in life. Therefore they lack scholastic materials, food, medical care e.t.c.and many of them have dropped out of school. Hope alive Uganda was formed to take care of those categories of children so as to restore hope into them .It has identified these children and registered them as needy children and aims at providing the necessary assistance to the students. On top of that it has registered two hundred eighty four (284) orphans and needy. The percentage of girls is higher than boys in Buzaya County. However, Hope Alive Uganda does not aim at challenging government programmes but to supplement on governments' efforts of helping orphans and the needy of which Buzaya county is part. And it is working hand in hand with government organizations (NGOs) to sort out these problems. Its first objective is to bring up orphans and needy children to school and finding ways and means of meeting their spiritual, physical and social needs. The project also seeks to address the problems of girls in order to see that girls are getting the same opportunities as boys. The project seeks to achieve its objective by using these various means and ways of reaching out these children.

Goals:

1. The building of the school.
2. Teaching, counseling in the schools both primary and secondary about the dangers of Aids / HIV.
3. Seeking patrons and leaders of the students in the school to attend the work shops.
4. To provide health care to the orphans.
5. Sponsorship for school fees and other vocational requirements.
6. establishing projects and activities that generate income for the child support (maize/vegetables project, chicken/pigs/goats project)
7. meeting medical bills