Project Report
| May 23, 2012
25 USD improves lives of widows affected by TB/HIV
By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director
Since 2011 ,SORAK Development Agency set out to support women affected by TB/HIV including widows,single mothers,grandmothers and adolescent girls. Little did we know that 25$ would mean a lot and create such an everlasting and promising impact.
Early May 2012, SORAK programme staff visited one household of goat beneficiary. We were happy to learn that the initial goat provided has produced kids which had now grown. The mother goat was pregnant again and the beneficiary was in anticipation of another round of 2 kids.
It was all joy and that one kid had been sold off.The happy widow was now sure of meeting her travel costs 30 kms to the hospital to get her monthly TB and ARVs dosage and assessment.The other goat kid will soon be given to another anxiously waiting beneficiary.It was all praises to SORAK.
All this cannot be possible without the support of global giving and our dear donors and supporters.It is you and other that have brought smile to faces and lives that were once fading
We still need much more donation of this kind to enable us provide support to other vulnerable women who are continuously asking as to when we shall reach them.
It could your next contribution that will rejuvenate lives of another paid of poor widows in the next few days.
God Bless you All.
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Feb 22, 2012
Livelihood support Improves life of poor widows
By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director
In order to ensure that widows affected by TB/HIV adhere to treatment and positive living, this project sought to provide Livelihood support. The strategy here involved participatory selection of indigent individuals. There was preliminary home assessment visits by SORAK staff in liaison with village leaders in order to select the neediest of the needy widow TB/HIV clients. To date a total of 80 persons widows living /affected by TB/HIV have been supported with own selected and carefully assessed enterprises. Subsequently 19 women received 38 piglets,4 received 40 local chickens,10 got 10 goats and 8 opted for entrepreneurial seed grants while another 40 have been mobilized into formation of village saving and loan group. They are encouraged to borrow and save and they take on independently run micro enterprises. There are indications that they can now afford basic needs, treatment and travel cost to health units. Other Widows not yet reached have been encouraged and motivated to start activities that increase their income and allow them access to affordable treatment and a better nutrition.
“HIV/AIDS widow blows More Candles”Tereza Nabukenya female, aged 79 a widow TB/HIV patient of Kinoni Village, Kagoma parish-Kitenga Sub County. Lives with co-infected TB/HIV daughter 50 years .Both are beneficiaries of psychosocial training, home based care and livelihood support. In February 2011, Tereza had been abandoned and left for dead given her age and ill-health.SORAK intervention made family realise Tereza’s right to life. Information and support from this project encouraged caregivers to change their attitude to the two TB/HIV mother daughter widowed patients. Tereza still hope to live longer with rejuvenated life; and are all thanks to SORAK & and the Global Giving Donors.
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Sep 27, 2011
PROGRESS REPORT SEPTEMBER 2011
By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director
This report presents the achievements so far registered with support from donor through GlobalGiving; since the beginning of 2011, SORAK Development Agency set out to assist 200 widows living with HIV and TB; with livelihood support. A partipatory selection exercise for indigent widows was carried out.
Ten of these have been supported with 10 improved goats and one with 10 locally improved chicken. These are the enterprises selected by the beneficiaries themselves. Five months after the support, the project has started bearing results as indicated by the two case stories.
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