RWEN
DATE: 25 – 06 – 2012
Our school term two has started and our children are in school now.
Members 123
5 old men widowed
5 old women needy and sick
300 OVC (orphans and other vulnerable children)
EDUCATION:
152 OVC given full assistance from funds received from you, thank you.
On scholastic materials, midday meals and uniforms are provided.
HEALTH
10 HIV/AIDS children and 1 epilepsy boy have special care e.g. counseling, drug sensitization, basic needs during school time and holidays.
45 Women HIV/AIDS positive
Always receive home visits and encouraged to go for drugs on time as required.
46 elderly women unable to take care of themselves
52 other women in the group.
These are taking active part in agriculture by growing crops, green vegetables, groundnuts, maize, sweet potatoes, beans, sim-simu and cassava.
OUR ACTIVITIES
Provision of scholastic materials, fees top ups, midday meals and school uniforms.
Train women in basic agriculture skills, improved vegetable seeds, beans, groundnuts, sweet potatoes.
Small scale saving scheme exchange agriculture.
Training women in animal husbandry e.g. local goats, local poultry and piggery.
Planting grass for animals
LONG TERM SURVIVAL SKILLS
Practicing planting of crops in variety to have balanced diet in our homes.
Lobbying for the women income generating activities.
Counseling HIV/AIDS people in the community.
Training women in long term survival skills as usual.
Training women tailoring and hair dressing
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Standard of children has improved and go to school in big number
Women have improved in their day-to-day life and very active.
Positive living is taking place
Basic agricultural skills in place
Home basic care in homes
CHALLENGES
Lack of drugs for our patients especially people with T.B./HIV.
Septrum is scarce.
There is slowness to reach sick people due to lack of transport for home visits.
Lack of proper shelter for old women and men.
Child headed families need a lot of support but we lack funds.
Slow promotion of girl child.
Inadequate materials for tailoring and hair dressing.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Exchange of ideas for children, e.g. pen friends from abroad to Africa Uganda- Busia.
Children we support to get friends from over seas through you Jaya.
Above all, I wish to thank you very much for your continuous assistance to us, sincere thanks.
God bless you.
Love
Teoppy
GLOBAL GIVING Report from Little HEARTS Orphanage
Namaste dear donors, supporters and friends of Little HEARTS,
Thank you once again for your continuous support from “little HEARTS orphanage”.
Here in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh it’s really very hot unbearable summer this year! Nearly 46 degree Celsius recorded. To escape from these heat and hot waves we have sent all the children to spend time with their grandparents, single mothers and relatives. Government had declared summer holidays for all schools and colleges from 23rd April to 14th June.
All the children will arrive on 15th to attend schools and all of our children got very good marks in all the subjects.
Ramu, one of “little HEARTS orphanage” boy secured 92% marks and was not satisfied with the marks he secured and again we paid fee for improvement to secure nearly 97 or 98% of marks in his 1st year Intermediate college studies! We always encouraging and appreciate his hard work. Where there is pain there is Gain as we all know.
From next month we would like to attach monthly expenditure form for our donors and supporters to understand how the money is going on.
Five more new children who lost both parents due to different reasons and taking shelter at a mosque in a village will be taken to Little Hearts from this academic year. We need more money to feed these new children. Apart from Rent, Salaries etc., we are spending nearly Rs.600/- per month on each child.
With Kind regards,
C.P.Kumar
HEARTS
little HEARTS orphanage
supported by The River Fund, U.S.A.
Breakdown sheet
Month: March 2012
1. Rice ------------------------------------- Rs. 3,618-00
2. Dry Goods ------------------------------ Rs. 5,363-00
3. Vegetables ----------------------------- Rs. 1,732-00
4. Chicken/Fish --------------------------- Rs. 1,505-00
5. Eggs -------------------------------------- Rs. 1,050-00
6. Milk --------------------------------------- Rs. 2,190-00
7. Fruits ------------------------------------- Rs. 701-00
8. Cooking Gas ---------------------------- Rs. 3,200-00
9. School materials ---------------------- Rs. 822-00
10. Medicals -------------------------------- Rs. 829-00
11. Transportation ------------------------ Rs. 435-00
12. Additionals* -------------------------- Rs. 2,447-00
13. Building Rent --------------------------- Rs. 7,000-00
14. Salaries ---------------------------------- Rs. 7,700-00
15. Electricity Bill -------------------------- Rs. 1,330-00
Total Rs. 39,922-00
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Additionals * : Birthdays, Flowers, News Paper, TV Dish connection, underwares, Pads, Toys, Sports goods,
Children’s pocket money, Sandals etc., come under Additionals. These additional are
Not regular but News Paper bill, TV Disch Connection bill, Outing, Children’s pocket money and pads for girls are regular expenditure.
C.P.Kumar
HEARTS
PROGRESS REPORT.
Name of Organization: RIVER FUND HIV/AIDS FAMILY SUPPORT WOMEN ASSOCIATION
Project Name: LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (PLWAs).
Project Area: KITGUM DISTRICT, KITGUM TOWN COUNCIL SUB-COUNTY.
RIVER FUND HIV/AIDS FAMILY SUPPORT WOMEN ASSOCIATION is a Community Based organization established in 2006. Its office is situated at Christ the King parish, Kitgum Town Council, Kitgum district, Uganda. It has a total membership of 30 women who have volunteered to help sensitize and restore hope to the traumatized community (orphans, child headed families, people affected with HIV/Aids) as well as improve the nutrition of malnourished children.
Key focus areas of intervention include; Training People Living With Aids (PLWAs) on long term Survival skills, Care of malnourished children through providing food stuff, Counseling of married couples on coping with the Aids pandemic situation in their families, Home visits of PLWA, Educating mothers on providing proper and balanced nutrition using locally available resources and Initiating livelihood and economic strengthening schemes for PLWA that do not demand too much energy.
This report is on activities carried out this quarter (April-June, 2012) in the parishes of Pondwongo and Alango in Kitgum Town council sub-county.
ACTIVITIES.
1. Training on Management and best practices of rearing goats.
The River Fund this quarter has been able to train 20 people in livelihood (goat rearing) on management of goats to curb down on the previously reported death of goats. The women were taken through the feeding, disease identification and control. They were further taken through the different ways of rearing goats from which the women anxiously supported the semi intensive system of rearing goats. In this system, the goats are tied out during day to graze and later in the day they are brought back inside their shed for the night. The group can also source for the feeds and feed the goats from their pen without letting them out of the house.
The second component of the training was on vegetable growing. The groups were trained on how to prepare nursery beds for their vegetable seeds before planting in the mother garden. The facilitator took the participants through pest and disease control they were trained on variety of seeds; cabbages, carrots, sikumaweeki, amarranthus, okra, egg plants, tomatoes onions, garlic. The groups are encouraged to practice kitchen gardening (grow vegetables) to improve their nutritional supplement and to complement their household income from the sale of the vegetables.
2. Distribution of Vegetable seeds and Goats.
The groups trained received varieties of vegetable seeds. Each group received seeds worth one hundred thousand (100,000=) Ug.shs from the River fund HIV/AIDS family Support Association.
Each of the groups also received a male goat. This will increase the number of goats received to 5 per group from last year.
3. Construction of goats’ house.
The groups that received goats last year were constructed goats houses. The houses are to accommodate 10-15 goats each when the goats multiply from the 5 that the groups received in total. 4 given last year and 1 male-goat this year per group. The idea behind the house construction is to enable the goats to multiply faster and to avoid attacks from stray dogs as was the case in the previous report. The houses are made from local materials which are relatively cheaper and easy to get. This can also be acquired by the groups in case of the need for repair in future.
The hut was erected by the group as shelter for their goat before the construction of the new goats’ shed pictured below.
The land was given by a member of the group as their contribution towards the success of the project.
ACHIEVEMENTS.
1. Vocational Skills training
This is a new project that has just been introduced this year. The group has been able to start bead making. The bead making is yet to begin fully pending procurement of materials for the project work.
2. An office space has been established.
With the help of the new Parish Priest, Fr. Anthony Nyeko, we have been able to open up an office at Christ the King parish in the former Guilio Pastore primary School. The office is currently being run by 2 staff; a Programme Coordinator and an office Assistant.
3. Contact with the District.
We have also opened up a file with the district at the District Community Department. This is to help in coordination and publicity of the Association.
