Mr. Massa George Wilberforce (Cluster Technical Officer/ Team Leader)
Address:
Wanyange CFP
District:
Jinja
P.O. Box:
5056 Jinja
Tel:
043-120475
Mobile:
077-497080
Founded:
1992
Funders:
Christian Children's Fund INC.
Objectives:
1. Provision of quality education opportunities to the marginalized children.
2. Increase activism regarding prevention of child abuse, labour exploitation, sexual abuse etc.
3. Promote understanding, acceptance, recognition and support of child rights and responsibilities through community empowerment
4. Enhance community development through improvement of household ys.
5. promote wider relationship/ networking with other groups and civil societies
Activities:
Sensitize parents on the need for quality education; train the youth in vocational skills; support family IGAs; pay 50% of children medical bills; sensitization and provision of P.H.C. services immunization of the first 2 years; mothers 15-49 years etc.; educating parents on ECCD/ nutrition programmes
Organization type:
local_support_ngo
Area of operation:
Jinja
Target group(s):
Street Children, Battered/ Abused Children, Sexual Abused Children, AIDS Infected Children, Orphans and Destitute, Disabled Children, Child Mothers, Displaced Children, Other, please specify:, remarks: 49% boys, 51% girls
Does facilitate community training:
yes
Does monitor child abuse:
yes
Reasons:
Empowerment and recognition by the clients and district as a child focused organization in a voice of the marginalized group. Exchange of literature on child focused issues.
Networx:
Street Children Issues, Child Rights Clubs, Girl Child, Monitoring Child Abuse, Health, Early Childhood Education, Legal Issues of Children, Resource Mobilization, Exchange of Publications, Counseling and Referral Services, Children's Creative Writing, Drama, Arts, Other, please specify:, Building children life skills, child to child programmes, youth integrated programmes