Project Report
| Nov 14, 2024
KIFA Hires Medical Personnel To Advocate: HIV/AIDS
By George Obua | Project Leader
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Hired expert from the MOH to train the youth
KIFA Hires Medical Personnel To Advocate: HIV/AIDS
KIFA hires medical personnel to advocate for HIV/AIDS
With an attempt to equip the youth within the area of its operation with the knowledge of how to prevent and control spread of HIV/AIDS; Kole Intellectual Forum has hired expert from the Ministry of Uganda (MOH), to talk to them and also brief them of the sources of information and ways of living HIV/AIDS free; these included among others, the:
- Life skills training guide: This guide is available from the Health and Education Resource Centre and covers HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention. It includes modules, exercises, games, lectures, and case studies.
- Training course for HIV/AIDS counselors: This course is available from the MOH Knowledge Management Portal.
- UNMISS training: The United Nations Peacekeeping supports training on HIV/AIDS prevention.
- Vocational training with HIV prevention: This program is available for Ugandan youth and includes a 10-session Street Smart HIV prevention program.
And some ways to reduce the risk of getting HIV include:
- Getting tested for HIV
- Using condoms
- Limiting the number of sexual partners
- Getting tested and treated for STDs
- Talking to a health care provider about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Not injecting drugs
- Having only low-risk sex
- Only having partners with the same HIV status
- A Training Course for HIV/AIDS Counselors
Taking into account that:
Positive Prevention Counseling: A Training Course for HIV/AIDS Counselors, MOH Knowledge Management Portal; and that, show all, is for an informational purpose that are used mainly only for medical advice or diagnosis or through consultation of the professionals
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Nov 13, 2024
Parents-Teachers Meeting: Call For Positive Change
By George Obua | Project Leader
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Meeting: Addressing education and health matters
Promoting parents-teachers meeting: A search for positive change
Basing on the argument that: the primary objectives of parent-teacher meetings are to establish effective communication channels between educators and parents, providing a platform for mutual understanding and collaboration in the best interest of the student; Kole Intellectual Forum is trying to facilitate this type of program in hard to reach areas in the public primary schools of Kole District; with hope of promoting quality, sustainable and potential education in that very particular schools as well as looking at the means and way forward to address health matters at homes and schools
We this was done, there was a common understanding among parents-teachers at one of the schools in Kole District and parents started to collect food for their children at that particular school. Indeed, within that year the performance of the children change positively and the rate of children falling sick dropped drastically
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Nov 12, 2024
Director: KIFA Verifying Organizational Progress
By George Obua | Project Leader
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Director: KIFA verifying organizational progress
Director: KIFA verifying organizational progress
In an attempt to verify the organizational success of Kole Intellectual Forum; as it has always been the ways of verification of the organization for the last eight years of its operation that is, since 2016; the annual meeting of the organization have directed the Directors (non-siting ones, each one of them) to at least come and verify the successes of the organization and where necessary to advise the management of the areas that needed the correction.
Their direction of verification are on these areas:
- To verify how the resources are being used
- To verify the management processes
- To listen—and write down questions of the employees including the students
- To review the tools at hand
- To look at the organization structure.
- To introduce him/herself to the organizational team
- To fill out any profile information to increase visibility.
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