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We enable social welfare programs for children and their extended families.
There is a need for the extended family and the community to be empowered to help take care of large numbers of HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
In 2008 we are partnering with and enabling a local Ugandan charity called TOUCH who have ten years experience supporting orphans and vulnerable children.
The project is to support a pilot group of 500 orphans in Kampala, their families and communities. Touch will mobilise the community and ‘strengthen safety nets’ within the community. Where possible orphans are cared for within the extended family structures.
We sponsor three full-time workers who have established a team of volunteers to cater for the provision of material, educational, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual basic needs of orphans and vulnerable children. We also provide funding for training families in vital areas.
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We provide microloans, and ongoing business guidance to groups of women in Uganda. This enables them to develop self-sustainable livelihoods, to provide both for their own children and for other orphans and vulnerable children who they have taken in to live with them following the death of relatives. Through starting or developing a business they can work their way out of the poverty.
We are opening an office in Uganda during 2008, and during the first two years of operation we expect to give microloans and business training to over 1,000 women. More
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