Albino children between the ages of 3 to 16 years in the districts of Jinja, Mayuge and Namutumba in Uganda have challenges regarding their lives i.e. their health, low levels of education and stigmatization. UPIMAC, through 3 key interventions namely; health, education and advocacy interventions is advocating to help these helpless children through fighting skin cancer, ensuring Albinos go back to school and advocating the Ugandan government to include Albino children in their programs yearly.
Albino children between the ages of 3 to 16 years in the districts of Jinja, Mayuge and Namutumba in Uganda have challenges regarding their lives i.e. their health, low levels of education and stigmatization. Skin cancer has turned out to be the major killer of PWA due to exposure to direct sun light. PWA have the highest number of school dropouts because of lack of funds and scholastic materials essential for their studies and are very vulnerable to child sacrifice by witch doctors.
We propose to have 3 major interventions i.e. education, health and advocacy interventions. under education we intend to increase enrollment of albinos in schools by 40% by end of 2017; under health we are planning to fight skin cancer in albinos through provision of sun protective gears to help these children live a healthy life while under advocacy, we plan to reach out to key community leaders both at lower and higher local governments who can help speak for the voiceless albino children.
Once the funds are available, albino children will get quality education to fight illiteracy. By accessing sun protective gears this will protect their delicate skin from direct exposure of sun light, thus living a healthy life. Through advocacy, we are hopeful that the Ugandan government will include albino programs into its yearly budget plans. We are hopeful, by the end of 2017, we will have reached 50 albino children in each of the three (3) districts of operation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
