Partners

Current Projects, Partners, & Accomplishments

Partner: President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Empower Oyam Project

Organized a SOCCA camp in Loro Sub County where 1000 primary and secondary students were involved in various sporting activities coupled with HIV/AIDS awareness, education and testing services
Set up a youth friendly corner at Loro HCIII to increase HIV/AIDS service utilization among the adolescents and youth in Loro sub county
Provide IEC materials to Loro HCIII to reinforce HIV/AIDS service delivery

HOPE project (Oyam and Otuke district)

Organized PWDs in groups, trained them in areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, services utilization.
Trained PWDs on how to generate income with agriculture and also ensure food security at home
Provided them with agricultural inputs (groundnuts, soy beans, egg plants and tomato seed) to support them with food security and income generation

Partner: President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Dokolo North Initiative (DNI) & GlobeMed

Partner: Vitamin Angels

Health Initiative Village Oyam (HIVO) project (Oyam, Kwania, Dokolo and Otuke Districts)

Distributed medical supplies (multivitamins for pregnant and lactating mothers, Vitamin A for children under 5 years, and Albendazoles for both children).
Conducted both community and facility based integrated and EPI outreaches in Oyam district; conducted health education sessions, immunization, malaria screening and treatment, and dispensing Multivitamins, Vitamin A and Albendazoles.

Livelihoods Project (Oyam district, Loro Sub County)

Provided apprenticeship on tailoring to the women tailoring groups on face mask making.
Provided the members with materials for face mask making so that they make the masks and sell them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds generated would be ploughed back in their groups VSLA, with those who participated in the making of masks given a stipend for their efforts.
A total of 1800 face masks were made and sold off.

Partner: Danish Ugandan Friendship Association (DUFA) & Agricultural Development Denmark Asia (ADDA)

Data driven initiative for organic soy bean farmers (Oyam and Kwania districts)

Organized farmers into groups and provided them with training on group dynamics and management.
Carried out a field mapping exercise using GIS MDC app with Smartphones to make monitoring and data collection easy.
Carried out the first phase of field monitoring and data collection exercise
Identified one certification agency to provide certificates to farmers recognizing them as Certified Organic Farmers.
Conducted farmer group leaders’ training workshop on Organic Good Agricultural Practices who in-turn trained their group members