Give orphans and vulnerable children in Kasese, Uganda a chance to go to, stay in and finish school
Luhwahwa Youth Development Foundation (LUYODEFO) is a local non-profit NGO provides support to marginalized communities across the Kasese district of western Uganda.(visit our website http://luyodefo.org for more information).
Our vision is to have an empowered, environmentally friendly and healthier society. Since, everything starts with education; LUYODEFO considers educating children as the stepping stone and the frame of any intervention, both immediately and over the long-term. We will offer interventions to improve the education of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), whose result will improve a variety of other things from poverty, to hunger and to disease. By supporting the education of these children, we will be giving “a life time gift”, not only for the children being supported, but for the child’s family, the community*, and children of generations.*
We are already involved in supporting the education of orphans and vulnerable children through three interventions, and these are:-
(a). Provision of school supplies (books, pens, pencils) and we are looking forward to offer other scholastic materials including paying fees for the children. In nutshell, we are working to design and implement a sponsorship program.
(b). Promoting sexuality and health education among school children - where sanitary ware is also being provided to young teen girls to ensure that they don't skip school during periods.
(c). Running a mobile library project to increase access for the children in rural village schools to reading materials. By moving across schools and villages with reading materials, we hope to bring children and books together.
To be able to carry out the above interventions, we are seeking organizations, as well as individuals/ families to help support the project activities through monetary funding, donation of materials, volunteering, advice and spreading the project.
LUYODEFO is a member of Paper for All Network (our page can be viewed at http://www.paper4all.org/what-we-do/umbrella/luyodefo/). Paper for All mainly distributes academic resources (notebooks, pens, chalk, etc.) to the children, quarterly. Paper for All also does tutoring and organizes a summer programme for 15 volunteers to teach in Ouagadougou in local conditions. Finally, an umbrella programme was created to communicate about similar actions in other countries.
We seek to explore any opportunity and possibility to create partnerships with organizations, schools/ colleges/ universities or individuals/ families to promote the education of OVCs in our project area.