PROJECTS
Our main program centre around EDUCATION, HEALTH and CHILD PROTECTION to achieve our goals we implement a number of projects all designed to improve the living conditions of most vulnerable children in the community and their families
EDUCATION
In our Education program we run a very successful and effective project in the community called Back to school campaign (BSC) The project through sponsorship and supply of other much needed educational needs helps to integrate back into school children from disadvantaged background forced to drop out of school due to their vulnerability, our community based research shows that in every five vulnerable children three are forced to miss school twice a week due to either missing food previous night or lack of schooling materials, some of them will never return to school unless someone does something, the program also helps to find schooling opportunities for children of school age who have never have had a chance for school
Back to School campaign project supports over 400 children every year with educational needs that helps children start school, keep children in school or go back to school after they were forced to drop out by lack of educational support due to their vulnerability
Deograthius (7) lives with his old grandmother in Kakerege village on the Island , both his parents died of HIV, he is in the first year of Primary school but does not attend regularly as his classmates make fun of what he wears as he didn’t have school uniforms, When he received LVC support uniforms and shoes he was very excited going back to school and showing off his new uniform , Deograthias often go to bed hungry as his very old grandmother can not work which makes life for them a daily struggle,
‘Am very excited cant wait to go back to school tomorrow;
Help us in our community efforts to give most vulnerable children an Education
£4= Will purchase a pair of uniform to enable a vulnerable child go to school
£6 = Will purchase a pair of shoes to help a child start school again
£ 1= Will buy 8 exercise books to support a child education
£ 60= Will sponsor a vulnerable child into secondary education for a year , school fee and other school needs
HEALTH
In the Health Program we implement Health Action Project . We believe that the Health of an individual is built at childhood, many vulnerable children on the Island are at a very high risk of suffering malaria and malnutrition, through our projects in the community we have discovered that vulnerable children often go to bed hungry and have absolutely no chance to access nutritious food let alone having any enough food to eat ,
Besides providing education to vulnerable children families on Malaria and the importance of good nutrition to children we supply mosquito nets to poor families to help combat malaria , packetc of Highly Nutritious flour to disadvantaged children in rural and remote areas on the Island, the project reaches and saves over 250 children every year
As part of our Health Action Project to fight Malaria in children and pregnant mother in the community provision of Education on Malaria prevention goes hand in hand with distribution of mosquito nets to poor families
The Health Action project has turned many children’s lives around , Fighting malnutrition on Ukerewe ISLAND remains one of our key goals (LVC team)
Help us in our community efforts to improve Health in most vulnerable children
£ 3 = Will buy a Mosquito net to help prevent Malaria in one very poor family
£1.5 = Will buy a packet of highly nutritious flour to help prevent malnuttrition in a child
£ 20 = Will help deliver education to 150 families on prevention of Malaria and Malnutrition
CHILD PROTECTION
Child Protection Program focuses on ensuring children’s rights in the community are respected and valued . we protect Children from all forms of abuse, neglect ,exploitation and violence ,We achieve this through implementation of various projects including Emergency life Assistance which involves delivering urgently needed direct service to extremely pooor and needy children and familes example food, cloths, Shelter etc , Family economic empowerment which involves training families self income generating project so they can provide for the children under their care , Family Legal support (FLS) which involves providing basic legal help to vulnerable children;s families to help protect children suffering abuse , exploitation etc , the program program reaches and helps over 230 every year in many different ways.
Hemed 9 lives with his dad in the outskirts of Nansio, Hemed constantly suffers abuse in the hands of his violent father, If he missed Madrasa (Islamic classes) he gets beaten and tied to a tree the whole day, when we learnt about the incident we visited the family and talked to the father about domestic violence and how it affects children, we explained how punishment was not a workable solution to getting a child to listen, we also reported the matter to the local leaders in the area who warned Hemed’s father of legal consequence if he continued with his behavior . One months later Hemed was living happily with his dad who changed his ways and has never experienced any further violence.
Help us in our community efforts to improve and restore lives of most vulnerable children
£ 2 = Will buy food enough to feed a disadvantaged child for one week
£ 2 = will buy a disdvantaged child cloths to wear
£ 5 = will buy a poor child a blanket to cover at night
£ 10 = Will help us deliver basic family legal help to help defend a child or poor family rights
£ 200 = Will help build a basic house to shelter a very poor family without a house