Empower Poor and Vulnerable Children Through Educa

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Project Report From April To June 2024

By Baliddawa Henry Muyodi | Executive Director

BACKGROUND

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance ‘s “MISSION” is To work in a holistic manner towards improving the quality of life through interventions that mitigate vulnerability to illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, disease, hunger, environmental degradation and gross abuse of human rights”. We continue to pursue the same mission by ensuring that all children of school going age are kept in school to protect them against the dangerous vices of early marriage among girls, child labor and school dropouts. The second term school program for this year commenced on the 29^{th April}, 2024 and all the number of children in our care reported at the beginning of the term.

IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM

The education program has continued to create an impact in that more children continue to enroll to access education. In our January to April report, we reported that a young girl ASIYA in our community had lost her mother and living with her other sibling under the care of the father who is an HIV/AIDS victim but joined our program in 2019, she is now in primary five and steadily continuing with her studies yet by now she would be a mother at the young age.

CHALLENGE

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance in its routine visitation to the community, our members of staff identified yet another challenge of the girl child turned into mothers during the COVID-19 PANDEMIC. During the two years of the pandemic, many girls became mothers during this period and these young mothers are finding it difficult to make ends meet and we need to do something about their plight. We are proposing to initiate a program that will make them self-reliant and one of them is to train them in skills that will transform them into self-employed. Tailoring and agricultural skills would be very ideal for such people in our community. We hope that in our upcoming fundraising, if we hit our target, we may consider commencing on the plan.

UPCOMING JULY BONUS DAY

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance has been invited by GlobalGiving to join other nonprofit organizations on the 10^th July 2024 in the fast-paced, one-day matching campaign to encourage giving from high-dollar donors. We are excited and we have high hopes that both old and new donors will donate to our cause. All the funds we expect to raise from this coming campaign will go a long way in supporting the poor and vulnerable children in our community.

APPRECIATION

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the past donors whose donations have created a significant impact to our activities and also appeal to more donors to come to our support those who will be participating in upcoming July Bonus Day scheduled on the 10^th July 2024.

 

Warmly,

Baliddawa Henry Muyodi

PROJECT REPORT FOR THE PREIOD FROM JULY TO 30^TH DECEMBER 2024

BACK GROUND

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance continues to champion the task of supporting the children from poor and vulnerable background to stay in school and complete education. We provide these children with school fees and other school needs as well as supporting children and their families to become economically self-reliant. For the last 8 months, Blessed Echoes Children Alliance has been on a comprehensive research to find out why many children in the District of Mayuge are among the less privileged with many children don’t access education both primary and secondary levels. In our findings, it was found that many families in the district are among the poorest the community in Uganda. We resolved to integrate in our activities, the program of empowering the families of the poor and vulnerable children to come out of poverty so that they can be economically self-reliant. We have come up with a program of giving a goat for every family to rear so that they can multiply and be a source of income for the family. This new program has been incorporated into our program and our project has been restructured to suit the new program.

IMPACT

The recent innovation and inclusion within our programs, the provision of a goat for every family will have a far reaching economic effect to the future of the society. The future of the society will be bright and they will be able to take decisions of their community and the government programs will be implanted well with an educated community.

 JULY BONUS DAY

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance was invited by GlobalGiving to participate in the 10^th July 2024. We are happy that we were able to participate in the campaign and we were able to attract some donors who donated some funds though we did not meet our target. For the first time , we were able to raise $ 462 and attracted 7 donors. All the funds we have raised from the campaign will be utilized to the respective projects and we will provide reports as soon as the projects have been implemented. The funds have not reached our bank account due to some technical problems on our side which we are fixing and soon we will provide reports for each projects.

APPRECIATION

We would like to express our gratitude to all our previous and the current donors for the donations that they have extended to our organization. Blessed Echoes Children Alliance will continue to be a conduit through which many of our poor and vulnerable children and community will benefit from.  We wouldn’t be at this level without the support of our donors and the community in which we operate. It is our hope and expectation that all our donors continue to support us so that we can reach more poor and vulnerable children and the community we serve.

DECEMBER 3^RD 2024 CAMPAIGN

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance is in preparation to participate in the 3^rd December 2024 campaign to continue soliciting for donors to support our cause and we will be grateful to have more donors because our need for funds has increased with the numbers of children that need support is on the raise. We hope to raise more funds in the 3^rd December 2024 to support our projects.

Warmly,

Henry Baliddawa

Executive Director

Blessed Echoes Children Alliance.