COUNTRY OF OPERATION : UGANDA
AREA OF OPERATION : WAKISO DISTRICT
PROJECT TITLE :PROMOTING CAREER AND
CAPACITYBUILDING AMONG THE
YOUTH AND ORPHANS TOWARDS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CONTACT PERSON : KAYONGO CHRISTOPHER –
DIRECTOR
PROJECT IMPLEMANTOR : HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
CONTACT ADDRESS : P.O.BOX 22280KAMPALA -UGANDA
EMAIL :
WEBSITE :
REFERENCE PERSON -U.K. : MR. JOHN PUREFOY - JUST A DROP –
U.K.
EMAIL :
TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT : US$ 69,586
:
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED : US$ 60,130
:
LOCAL CONTRIBUTION : US$ 9,456 (IN KIND
CONTRIBUTION)
BANKERS : STANBIC BANK UGANDA LIMITED
ACCOUNT NAME : HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
ACCOUNT NUMBER : 0140017384801
1.1INTRODUCTION
Busiro County of Wakiso district is one of those areas in Buganda region that was hit by the social and psychological problems. The problems are associated to lack of schools, water sources and the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The fertility rate of this nation stands at 3.4%, which is the highest in this region.
These problems have brought about ignorance, poverty and diseases. It is upon that background that this Organization HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE started working among the orphans ( youth) in and out of school in order to guide the process of support, growth and development to the orphaned children of Lukwanga, Bukasa, Nakabugo parishes of Wakiso sub-county, Busiro county, Wakiso district.
1.2PROJECT AREA CHARACTERISTICS
LOCATION
Wakiso sub-county where HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE is located is found in Busiro county, Wakiso district inUganda.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The area has an easily accessible road network but lacks proper schools and medical centers. People live in temporary, semi-permanent and permanent shelters.
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
Most people are peasants and they generate simple seasonal incomes from growing and selling crops like cotton, coffee, rice, beans and peas.
DEMOGRAPHY
Wakiso sub-county has a population of 65,432. Mostly children and youths who unfortunately have not been able to go to school at all and some have dropped out due to lack of finances, despite the fact that they desire to go back and study.
1.3NEEDS ASSESSMENT
The most pressing need of this area is boosting the education system for the unfortunate ORPHANED CHILDREN and the youth who have not made to their next level of education, through availing vocational education for life-long skills. This need was identified through a community profile survey by a group of researchers with the use of questionnaires and group focus discussion.
1.4STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Due to the rampant AIDS/HIV scourge in this area, many families have been hit by the loss of their loved ones leaving this area with lots of helpless orphans and child headed homes. These children are unable to go to school due to lack of school dues and hence end up as school dropouts. It’s this cry of the disadvantaged children that we have heard and therefore seen the need for strengthening the vocational/technical skills acquisition to avail life-long skills in their lives anticipating that these children would become job creators other than job seekers.
Given our country’s education system, there are a number of loopholes, most especially where practical /technical skills are concerned. The education system is more theoretical, other than practical and this has created the problem of unemployment, because students are more of job seekers other than job creators. Change in this system can only be approached through availability of vocational schools for practical life-long skills hence sustainable development.
1.5ACTIVITIES TO DATE
Hope Children’s Centre offers formal and vocational / technical education to over 538 children who are mainly the AIDS/HIV orphaned children in WakisoSubCounty.
The many youth where Hope Children’s Centre is located are involved in odd jobs for survival. Hope Children’s Centre has sensitized the youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS and it’s necessary that further development is made. The community and well wishers have tried to construct classrooms for the centre and the children who have gone through this centre do very little due to inadequate vocational training.
1.6ORGANIZATIONCAPABILITY STATEMENT
HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE has a team of very dedicated teachers behind this cause and are therefore very ready and committed to availing practical skills to these unfortunate children in the hope of changing the course of their lives.
HISTORY
The Organization has been in existence since 1994 and has helped in educating a Ugandan Child and on addition to mobilization of the youth who drop out of school. This has been through sensitization on the spread, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. There is also an extension counseling team that has done consistent follow-ups in homes that have been strongly hit by the scourge, by providing counseling services as well as encouraging the youth to attend the youth meetings so as to learn more.
The youths have been such an encouragement to our work because they have shown great concern in learning and have been trained to do counseling in their communities. Some of them have participated in our daily follow-ups and are acting as volunteers to the organization.
HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE saw the need of extending the services to the youth through training in life long skills that can help them create their own jobs for a better standard of living and sustainable life. The youths and the infected and affected families with AIDS/HIV have been trained and are now involved in brick making, carpentry, tailoring, masionary, crafts, small businesses and simple agriculture in livestock rearing and farming. This has enabled them earn some income, which income is used to support their families.
HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE now has the vision to strengthen the services to the infected and affected families, orphans and youth mainly the drop outs in this area, through construction of a vocational school, geared at equipping them with more practical skills that can be of great benefit in their future lives.
1.7PROJECT FRAMEWORK
GOALS
Improve livelihoods of the orphans at the centre, infected and affected families andyouth through involvement in sustainable humandevelopment.
OBJECTIVES
-To alleviate poverty among the community infected affected families, orphans and school drop outs through the availing of life long skills for sustainable growth and development
-To increase awareness among the youth on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
PROJECTED ACTIVITIES
-Construction of three buildings to accommodate vocational training.
-Register youth to study in the vocational school
-Conduct workshops to address HIV/AIDS scourge and other sexually transmitted diseases.
-Formation of committees to monitor the projects.
-Identify qualified and skilled trainers in vocational education.
MODEL OF OPERATION
-Carry out feasibility studies
-Organizing of local materials
-Other materials that are not in the community will be channeled through committees.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The project will be implemented in 3 phases within a period of one and a half years and will be on going.
Approach;
This will be participatory (involving the youth, orphans, community and project
Staff)
SUPERVISION;
The project staff, local coucills and community resource persons will carry out the
Supervision of the project
The phases of implementation will include the following;
PHASE ONE
-Strengthen the sensitization of the youth in various spheres of health.
-Training the youth/orphans in vocational / technical skills acquisition.
-Monitoring and evaluation
PHASE TWO
-Training the beneficiaries in carpentry/woodwork and joinery
-Training in welding
-Monitoring and evaluation
PHASE THREE
-Training in electrical installation
-Plumbing and Home economics
-Environmental protection and management.
-Monitoring and evaluation
1.8PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE
PHASE / STAGE / ACTIVITY / PERSON RESPONSIBLEOne / Orientation / Mobilization of communities in the construction of classroom blocks through provision of materials available in the community. / HOPE CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Orientation and implementation / Creating awareness on the prevalence, treatment and management of HIV/AIDS related problems / Field assistances and resource persons from Mulago referral hospital
Implementation and maintenance / -Formation of working community health force among the youth
-Construction of classroom blocks
-Start on trainings in brick laying and concrete practice, tailoring - Examining beneficiaries through monthly tests / -Field assistants
-Religious leaders
-Local council leaders
-Community participation in provision of bricks, stones
-Youths to provide unskilled labour
-Skilled labour and land provided by Hope Children’s Centre
- Hope Children’s Centre professional staff.
- Hope Children’s Centre
Two / Implementation of phase two of the project / -Introduction to Carpentry/woodwork and joinery.
-Training in welding
-Follow-ups on beneficiary progress through internal and external examinations (practical, oral and written) / -Trained staff members in the disciplines mentioned.
-External examiners from Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB)
Three / Implementation of phase three of the project / -Training in electrical installation
-Plumbing
-Home economics and Hotel management.
-Follow-ups on beneficiary progress through internal and external examinations (practical, oral and written).
- Offering of certificates to successful candidates / -Hope Children’s Centre profession staff in these disciplines.
-External examiners from Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB)
1.9ROLE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANISATION
-The Community will provide locally available materials.
-Provision of skilled and unskilled labour
-Maintenance and sustainable of the project tools, equipment and infrastructure
-Hope Children’s Centre will provide technical support and supervision at all levels of implementation
-Hope Children’s Centre will coordinate and implement the project
-Community will collect some money after reaching a desirable amount in communities for maintenance
2.0 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
The financial controller will keep financial records and the coordinator will be accountable to the board of governors and the donors
ACCOUNTING PERIOD
The financial controller will make quarterly and annual financial reports.
Coordinator of Hope Children’s Centre, the deputy coordinator and financial controller shall be signatories to the account and all will be expected signatories on withdrawing, the coordinator being the principle signatory.
2.1 MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Hope Children’s Centre and project participants will work together to monitor and evaluate the project throughout implementation. Hope Children’s Centre will collect and use the following sources of information for monitoring and evaluation.
Project Participation /Hope Children’s Centre staff
-Baseline data on number of homes affected by HIV/AIDS and number of orphaned (including those out of school but with parents) youths willing to go to school if opportunity arose.- Reports from beneficiaries through the internal and external examinations.
-Attendance lists of each training
-Open discussions on experience of beneficiaries in vocational/technical skills acquisition at the centre
-Success stories of how the project has impacted their lives. / -Staff teaching/training work plan and timetables to ensure that project activities are carried out as planned.
-Reports from staff on progress of students
-Quarterly meetings with beneficiaries to discuss issues that need attention.
-Quarterly reviews with various stakeholders, including representatives of beneficiaries, examiners, sub-county and district officials and Hope Children’s Centre technical staff.
2.2 REPORTING SYSTEM
Field assistants will be responsible for writing and handing in field reports to the coordinator.
The coordinator will be in charge of writing out annual reports and forwarding them to the board of governors and Donors respectively.
2.3 SUSTAINABILITY
Trainings will be held among beneficiaries in services that they can easily extend to community members. These will include trainings in sensitizing and counseling of HIV/AIDS patients and those around them about the disease and how to live positively with it.
Community will be expected to have a small contribution to the project in form of volunteerism on some activities like constructions and some others when called upon.
Youths and orphans at the centre after the initial stage of the project will be liable to paying a small amount of money in order to attend the vocational technical skills acquisition which will be ongoing
The items produced by the Hope Children’s Centre by the trained youth/orphans will be sold out to the open market for an income
Continued supervision by the local council leaders.
2.4PROJECT BUDGET AND FINANCIAL PLAN
ACTIVITY / QUANTITY / UNITCOST / TOTALCONSTRUCTION
-Iron sheets-Timber
-Nails
-Bricks
-Cement
-Transportation of materials
-Labor
Sub-total
/ 650 pieces2000pieces
800kgs
46,000 bricks
800 Bags
3 classroom blocks / 25,000/=
20,000/=
3,000/=
100/=
20,000/=
2,000,000/= / 16,250,000/=
40,000,000/=
2,400,000/=
4,600,000/=
16,000,000/=
4,000,000/=
6,000,000/=
89,250,000/=
TRAINING IN BRICK LAYING
-Beneficiaries tool kit each estimated to cater for 45 students
Sub-total
TAILORING
-Seats (benches)
-Stools
-Cloth materials
-Sewing machines
-Sewing kits
-Tables
Sub-total
/ 2Tool kits100 benches
45 stools
200 meters
20 machines
10 tables / 2, 500,000/=
64,000/=
40,000/=
5000/=
200,000/=
100,000/= / 5,000,000/=
5,000,000/=
6,400,000/=
1,800,000/=
1,000,000/=
4, 000,000/=
800,000/=
1,000,000/=
15,000,000/=
CARPENTRY
-Hand saw 24 inches-Marking gauge
-Sliding level
-Hand drill
-Set of wood working drill
-Set of screw drivers
-G.clamps
-Sash clamps 6 inches
-Jack plane No 5
-Trying plane No 6
-Plough plane No 6
-Spoke shave
-Band saw
-Morticer
- Vice
Sub-total
/ 5 pieces2 tools
1 piece
2 pieces
2 pieces
2 sets
2pieces
2 pieces
2 pieces
2pieces
2 pieces
2 pieces
1 piece
1 piece
2 pieces / 80,000/=
40,000/=
220,000/=
100,000/=
50,000/=
50,000/=
100,000/=
150,000/=
200,000/=
100,000/=
100,000/=
50,000/=
800,000/=
600,000/=
400,000/= / 400,000/=
80,000/=
220,000/=
200,000/=
100,000/=
100,000/=
200,000/=
300,000/=
400,000/=
200,000/=
200,000/=
100,000/=
800,000/=
600,000/=
800,000/=
4,700,000/=
WELDING
-Welding set-Angle Grinder
Sub-total
/ 2 sets2 pieces / 1,500,000/=
700,000/= / 3,000,000/=
1,400,000/=
4,400,000/=
PLUMBING
-Kit for plumbers(course A,B,C)
Sub-total
/ 2 pieces / 1,500,000/= / 3,000,000/=3,000,000/=
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION KIT
-Course A,B,C / 4 packages / 1,800,000/= / 7,200,000/=
7,200,000/=
HOME ECONOMICS TRAINING PACKAGE
Sub-total / 3 packages / 2,000,000/= / 6,000,000/=
6,000,000/=
STATIONARY
-Markers-Pens
-Note books
-Ruled papers
-Manila
-Copier papers
-Facilitation allowance
Sub-total
/ 15 packets3 packets
90 books
3 reams
3 reams
4 reams
3 field staff / 10,000/=
10,000/=
1,000/=
7,500/=
40,000/=
8,000/=
25,000/= x52 days / 150,000/=
30,000/=
90,000/=
22,500/=
120,000/=
32,000/=
3,900,000/=
4,344,500/=
2.5BUDGET SUMMARY
ACTIVITY
/SUB-TOTAL
(Ug. Shs)1.CONSTRUCTION / 89,250,000/=
2.TRAINING IN BRICK LAYING / 5,000,000/=
3.TAILORING / 15,000,000/=
4.CARPENTRY / 4.700,000/=
5.WELDING / 4,400,000/=
6.PLUMBING / 3,000,000/=
7.ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION / 7,200,000/=
8.HOME ECONOMICS TRAINING / 6,000,000/=
9.STATIONARY / 4,344,500/=
GRAND TOTAL
/ 138,894,500/=US $ 60,130
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