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In due honor, we are delighted to
forward to you our project branded as
MUBENDE
FOUNDATION CENTRE FOR ORPHANS
Orphanage
and our proposal draft plan to enhance our activities.
M.F.F.O.C
recognizes that children are the future leaders of
tomorrow, and are often the most vulnerable group in
society; especially those children from traumatized or
disadvantaged families whose parents passed/died of the
dangerous HIV/AIDS scourge. M.F.F.O.C endeavors to
provide health services, educational services, and
parental care to many such children in order to meet
their physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
MUBENDE FOUNDATION CENTRE FOR ORPHANS
CHILDREN’S
ORPHANAGE
is an orphanage operating in the sub county of Kanyale.
We wish to provide the only community medical
clinics in this extremely remote area. This Christian
Founded Project was founded in 2005, and since then has
been carrying on a number of Orphanage aid activities
with special emphasis on HIV/AIDS orphans.
Due to neglect
at home, the children always roamed and wondered around
very dirty and miserable, so we endeavored to find means
of helping them out of the misery.
We started with
a handful orphans whose parents passed/died of the
dangerous HIV/AIDS scourge, fed them, taught them word
of God, and taught them how to bathe and wash their
clothes.
With the help
of volunteers the M.F.F.O.C takes in all kinds of
children, and makes efforts to provide them with basic
needs every year.
Our goal is to
bring in more of these needy children and try to provide
them ‘a home away from home’ and make them forget their
worries and heal their traumas.
STATUS/ACHIEVEMENTS
Our orphanage
recognizes that children are the future leaders of
tomorrow and are often the most vulnerable group in
society especially those from traumatized or
disadvantage families.
We therefore
try our level best to give them an unlimited attention,
with special emphasis on talent which we hope is the
best way to erase their traumas. We have formed such
groups as dance & drama where we try to bring back the
joy and happiness lost as a result of being orphaned by
HIV/AIDS.
Below are some
of the photos depicting how joyous the children are at
such times;
M.F.F.O.C
therefore, provides health services, educational
services and parental care to many such children in
order to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional
needs according to
Mathew 19:13 – 14
Some children
were brought to Jesus so he could lay his hands on them
and pray for them. The disciples told them not to bother
him. But Jesus said,
"Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the
Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew
19:13-14
Work at
M.F.F.O.C is spearheaded by Rev. Semwogerere Francis
who together with the currently labour force of up to 7
volunteers has the focus of increasing up to at least 10
-15 people.
G.M.J.C.O’s
main aim is to help the HIV/AIDS vulnerable group in
society especially those from traumatized or
disadvantage families.
We are
currently not an independent organisation but rather,
run all the activities and work under the umbrella of
the local church which itself has no external support
from any overseas organisation but would very much wish
to do so.
G.M.J.C.O
specifically addresses the problem of HIV and AIDS with
special consideration of the orphans and children living
with HIV and AIDS.
We put special
emphasis on feeding and nurturing these children to the
best of our ability so that we can give them a home.
The meals are
cooked with the use of firewood for fuel. The heat and
smoke in the kitchen can be overwhelming, but the cooks
do their work diligently.
Sometimes
cooking for over 100 children can be a challenge.
Many wooden spoons have been broken while stirring the
huge pot of Ugali (stiff cornmeal).
Meal time at
M.F.F.O.C
In a bid to
provide safe drinking water and cater for the health
needs, the project has been able to dig a bore hole and
we continue with nutritional surveys, emergency food
drops, and a vigorous campaign for more boreholes to
provide adequate safe drinking water.
AIMS
M.F.F.O.C,
being an orphanage operating in a rural area looks
forward to so many changes and developments especially
as involves dealing with the HIV/AIDS scourge and its
effects among the children.
This perforates
a gap to be filled by equipping and upgrading of the
current volunteers to get a more skilled man power.
It is quite a
challenge for the teachers to try and understand each
child. Many of the children are neglected at home, and
this interferes with the child’s capacity to learn
quickly. This leaves the teachers with the
responsibility to act as parents who can teach, love,
discipline and nurture the children. Because of the
loving dedication their teachers show, many of the
children enjoy attending the children & they enjoy many
positive experiences.
This is where
M.F.F.O.C makes an alarm for support to train more
Counselors and equip them in the field of catering and
dealing more effectively with HIV/AIDS patients and
those traumatized by the scourge as this will be the
only way in which we will be able to effectively capture
and venture in this field which many have instead turned
to a business venture.
With effective
training, re-enforcement and thorough screening of the
counselors, doctors, nurses (volunteers), we assume that
within the shortest period of time probably months;
depending on how fast and effective the process of
training will be, we shall have wiped the trauma and
fear from our clients and the entire community of
Kanyale and areas the around.
PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
- To provide food clothes
and shelter to the needy children and HIV/AIDS
orphans.
- To provide scholastic
materials and a godly environment for the children.
- To provide some medication
to the HIV/AIDS infected children and the orphans.
- To create a room for
courage about God’s love among the traumatized
children.
- To counsel and guide those
children whose hope is diminishing, claiming that
the lord is delaying to do them good. Thus not give
up.
PROJECT GOALS
- To retain and sustain
members with better standards of livings.
- To increase on the income
generating resources for the needy.
- To build a strong
foundation of God’s love to his people among the
orphans and the needy children at large.
- To teach and preach the
gospel as well as act as parents who can teach,
love, discipline and nurture the children.
- M.F.F.O.C dreams of
setting up a better teaching and learning
environment (school) to enable the children get a
quality and more organized education other than the
current setup where there is no classification but
children are simply put in a class without any
differentiations in standard (baby class – Level 4)
as shown in pix iv below;
- We also dream of
constructing better shelters both for school and
residing. This is because despite the efforts put,
the current shelters don’t seem to cater for the
population to the desired standard, just as evident
in Pix v below;
- There are quite a number
of children whose parents have never been able to
enroll them in any kind of school, because they
don’t have the money to pay school fees. These are
the children who grow up not knowing how to read and
write or do arithmetic. It is a joy when at least
100 children below the age of 7 years are able to
join the M.F.F.O.C
We look
forward to bringing in more such children and in 1 –
2 years, send
them to
some of the government schools in the area.
- M.F.F.O.C plans to improve
the kind of meals provided for the children in order
to match the health standard with the education
standards so as to produce better results among the
children and counter the HIV/AIDS effects on their
physical and emotional set up.
- Children need clothing and
so we try all means to find a way of providing for
this pressing need which has been seeing many of
them walking naked as a result of neglect caused by
the death of parents/relatives to AIDS
- There are no roads or
infrastructure; the only way is by foot.
We need to get
Primary Health Care Units (PHCU) as one of the goals. M.F.F.O.C is
targeting to start a clinic site with professionally
trained staff. The
PHCU’s will provide the medicines and supervision for
the clinic and the
will provide reporting information to the PHCU. The difference
between the Clinic and the Unit will be the presence of professionally
qualified staff and equipment at the Clinic, while the
Unit will have
Community Health Worker (CHW) with a basic medicine kit. G.M.J.C.O will
modified this approach with the addition of secondary sites around
the Primary Health Care Clinic in case of evacuation.
With this model, we
will have to evacuate sites completely when the area becomes
insecure, which is a common occurrence due to the
ongoing situations.
Below is our
budget for next month’s activities. Any contribution
from you is highly appreciated;
WORK PLAN BUDGET
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ACTIVITY |
EXPENSE |
- Construction of a classroom block.
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USD30,000 |
- Construction of a clinic/ dispensary.
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USD40,000 |
- Supply of drugs in the clinic/dispensary.
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USD20,000 |
- Supply of food, clothes, fruit juice and
other eatables.
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USD10,000 |
- Supply of scholastic materials; pens,
pencils, and uniforms.
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USD10,000
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- Acquiring a transport means (truck).
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USD40,000 |
- Payment of 3 Health workers and 7
teachers.
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$ 200 per
month |
OATH/PROMISE
With your great
tremendous support to our project, we promise to achieve
and deliver in bringing up an HIV/AIDS trauma free
orphan generation for the better of our nation.
We promise to
use any help rendered in an appropriate manner for the
better of our project and country at large.
We assure
prominent co-operation with our orphanage forward.
The orphanage
protects steps as regards proper allocation of
assistance rendered to us as a guarantee.
For any slide
or back step as regards assistance rendered, the
financier is a legible to comment or directly intervene
in the day to day activities of the orphanage or even
offer advice for better and success of our orphanage.
In nut shell we
take this opportunity to thank you for having accepted
our jumping and we want you to know that we are really
hungry for your help for we expect a lot out of your
assistance.
CHAIRMAN
REV.
SEMWOGERERERE FRANCIS.
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