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WHAT WE DO
Making A Difference In Our Communities
GIFT A CHILD
Gift a child is our education fund supports critically vulnerable children concentrating on girl child and some few academically talented vulnerable boys with quality primary, secondary and tertiary education Every child has a unique abilities and we focus at empowering vulnerable communities through quality education.
Problem Statement
The current social, economic, political, and covid situation in Masaka has impacted the children heavily. There are many factors that contribute to why children have to live on the streets, suffer from gender based violence and miss on education. These issues range from vicious cycle of poverty, insufficient education and lack of support system.
As an organization determined to make a difference, we have set a goal to reach 15 children per year. We undergo several steps to reach out to these children and make efforts to make them feel comfortable and heard, in which case they will then allow us to provide them with the help they need.
Issues to be tackled:
Education support:
Critically vulnerable girls are supported to access competitive quality education that we believe is a key program for promoting gender equality and social inclusion for women.
Career guidance and school visits:
Our children are frequently supported to achieve their education career through individual counseling, career guidance and education workshop. This is intended to ignite their education abilities and to focus to education goals.
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS
We train teachers and other school staff to improve education quality by linking education programs to student health and livelihood initiatives. We address why children do not attend school and develop innovative learning solutions for teachers to improve students’ desire to learn. We also help communities assess and overcome their barriers to learning.
Other community actions to improve education quality have targeted parent and caretaker engagement to support student retention and reducing teacher absenteeism. We also have organized feeding programs through our nutritional support project that provides food to vulnerable children. The well-being of children determines their attitude and experience with education.
WOMEN AND GIRLS' EMPOWERMENT
Education gives girls a chance at life when common issues of child marriage, early motherhood, and poverty are the realities they face. We work to remove obstacles keeping girls from leading healthy and empowered lives. Building community resilience and gender equality are at the center of our projects, like the Thrive for Girls Project (TFGP) and the Girls Lead Project (GLP). These projects empower girls to receive a quality education and training in vocational skills. Our child sponsorship program has allowed us to send more girls to acquire formal education in higher institutions and receive certificates in various backgrounds.
HEALTH AND HYGIENE SERVICES
Seeds of Hope has provided many health services and prevention campaigns. We have advocated for malaria prevention practices like the use of treated mosquito nets for household members, especially children. We familiarized communities with taking malaria tests whenever they suspected malaria signs among children and sick household members to administer proper medication. We warned communities against the dangers of self-medication and instead were encouraged to use the recommended drug dosage made by health workers to prevent malaria after initial treatment.
Another health-related initiative concerns the reality of HIV and AIDS, which continues to strike the population in Uganda. For example, UN AIDS reported that in 2019 new HIV infections in Uganda stood at 53,000 for both women and of all ages. Seeing this, we launched a broad health education program in 2019 called the Baaba Project. The project aided in strengthening HIV prevention and management among young people.
FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY PROJECTS
Our food programs equip communities with environment-friendly approaches to increase food production and food varieties rich in minerals and other nutrients. This program trains women in rural communities to utilize their gardens to create a sustainable and healthy food source. The training provided is based on climate resilient practices to cope with long droughts and unreliable rain patterns.
We also teach agro-business skills and efficient agricultural practices, including contour planting and growing vegetables on small land plots. These skills and practices address poverty and food insecurity as it provides a method for households to earn and income and provide food for themselves. These food programs benefit households by no longer depending on their children’s labor to survive. Consequently, it allows children to go to school when parents have a steady income to provide necessities.
Children’s welfare depends on having a good education and enough food at school and home. So we also advocate for schools to have safe water programs, which entails mobilizing school administration to ensure children have access to safe and clean water facilities.
