Gender Equality Uganda Project #2175

Empower Rural Women - AIDS Skills for Women

by The River Fund

Project Report | Nov 20, 2014
Final Report

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts | Executive Director, The River Fund, Inc.

Unfortunately, last month The River Fund made the difficult decision to retire this project on Global Giving.

The project leaders live and work in a very rural area of E Uganda. Please look at the map below. They were just not able to reliably send in quarterly reports. Transportation to a town (Busia) with an internet shop is expensive and often reached on the back of a 'boda boda' motorcycle.

The project leaders as well as the women and children the project serves have no regular electricity. They have no running water and many must travel a distance to carry water for cooking and bathing. Malaria is endemic. HIV continues to have a strangle hold on this population which is near a border town. The border towns across East Africa were the original AIDS highway and that devastation is still felt.

Women, especially widows, face sexual exploitation, polygamy, extreme poverty, poor medical care, destruction of families by HIV/AIDS and domestic violence.

This project has helped women and families develop stronger families and healthier children who stay in school. They have reached deep into rural areas, training women and men in HIV/AIDS long term survival skills and the network is growing.

Even though this project is deactivated on GG please know that we have not abandoned them. They are still a part of our network of E Uganda programs that The River Fund will continue to fund and support.

If you would like to continue to support this project, you may do so by donating to either of the following projects. Both of the projects below support parts of Empower Rural Women - #2175.

Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community (#1015)

Educate 600 Orphans in Rural Eastern Uganda (#12259)

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Apr 16, 2014
Quarterly Report - April 2014

By Teopista Auma | Project Leader

Jan 13, 2014
January 2014 Quarterly Report

By Teopista Auma | Chairperson

Safe sex education by dance and drama group

Dear Friends and Donors,

UPDATE REPORT

ENROLMENT:
Women, Elderly living with HIV/AIDS: 125

Children living with HIV /AIDS: 09

Epilepsy: 03

Living in orphanage center: 52

Children in other schools: 245

Total: 307

EDUCATION:

Our end of year performance for our children was good because most of our children were promoted to the next levels of learning.

In term three, funds were scarce and only scholastic materials were bought for them in small numbers and getting food was also a problem.

There was an attack of TB to one boy and he passed away in October 2013.

HEALTH:

Long term survival, HIV I AIDS:

Female condoms; we have visited clinics on clinic days and supplied to women and even when they are in need in other places through counseling

Male condom; we have at the same time done the same to men

Septrine and ARV's:

All our members attend clinics for their treatment in time during clinic days

We also make sure we get control tablets for the epilepsy

Elderly women, epilepsy and Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) feed at the center and get care when they are sick

Child headed families; these are a big problem when we run short of funds i.e. life becomes too hard

There is also a new child headed family of five (5 children) and these need a lot of care although under RWEN support

The center takes care of 52 children who live there at school and at times taken back to guardians and care takers to stay with them

Our activities:

Agriculture: matooke (banana), maize, beans and green vegetables, the yield for the year was good and hardworking members have got a good yield of beans, matooke and maize

Poultry: local poultry is doing well in all members because it is simple for them

Local goats keeping:

Members have made improvement on their animals

Piggery:

Five members have maintained piggery project

Achievements:

Hard work in women and children
Women will make some contributions for food for their children at school
There has been good performance for the children in end of year examinations
RWEN is able to feed elderly, OVC’s and those with epilepsy at the center
RWEN has trained a drama group to sensitize communities on HIV!AIDS through music, dance drama (MDD)

Challenges:

Lack of transport to move to far places to reach people in need for example;

Child headed families
To take OVC’s out

There was a big problem to feed children in term three of 2013 due to lack of money to buy food

Prepared by RWEN and initiated by

Teopista chairperson

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Organization Information

The River Fund

Location: Sebastian, Florida - USA
Website: https://www.riverfund.org
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Project Leader:
Joseph Onyango
Executive Director
Kampala , Uganda

Funded Project!

Thanks to 46 donors like you, a total of $4,655 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.