THE RURAL COMMUNITIES OF UGANDA:

Most Ugandans are in similar difficulties of life like: disease, war, malnutrition, poverty and poor health. So, Aim for Restoration Of Hope aims to serve the Rural and urban communities indiscriminately.

COMMUNITY

Communities in Busoga region are people with thousands of children both orphans and needy. Most of the people in communities we operate from are peasants; they can just grow food for consumption. They are below the poverty line and only 30% are literate.

AIM for RESTORATION OF HOPE-UGANDA (AROH)

Aim for Restoration of Hope-Uganda is a registered Christian charitable organization dedicated to sowing the seeds of love to the less privileged through, educational, health and socio-economic approaches.

An overview of how HIV/AIDS has affected the African children.

In Uganda, the number of African children that have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS alone is estimated at 1.2 million children. However, some other African children have been orphaned due to the political turmoil causing war and other diseases like Ebola, cholera, which makes up a total of Two million orphans.

Generally, orphans in my community live in a very miserable state. When the parents have died, a child is taken to live with relatives. These relatives already have large extended families and most of these families live below the poverty line. Such a child suffers discrimination, torture, and poor education. These children are exposed to all forms of child abuse including child labor, sexual abuse including rape and defilement which forces most of them to run to the streets and early marriages.

Uganda’s definition of an orphan is; a child who has lost one or both parents. There is no difference shown as far as treatment of orphans in Uganda is concerned as long as a child is below 18 years, he/she is considered an orphan regardless of Gender. In Uganda, it is not easy to know the HIV status of a child due to the fact that there is no blood testing for children. However, if a child shows signs of Aids/HIV, we still care for the child equally.

The greatest areas of need include:

Education

Empowering them with life skills

Clothing

Shelter

Food, water

Medical health Care.

Main Strategy

This project is a direct response to the children orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS and those that have no home and shelter.

In an effort to increase on the welfare and improved health, wellbeing of these children we plan to work hand in hand with other different organization to reach and support orphaned children.

Our objectives is:

1. To see 1000 children fostered or give shelter within the extended

family ,organizational homes and other functional families in the next ten years.

2. To improve the general livelihood of children in the school capacity

building and improvement on their resources.

3. To provide education and shelter for 1000 orphans and underprivileged

children.

4. To provide a listening ear atmosphere in which those who are

traumatized and psychologically tortured are counseled.

5. To provide scholastic materials to orphans in the project.

6. To improve on the general health of the children in the homes and

school.

7. To give compassion, training, caring for these children.

Aim for Restoration of Hope

EMAIL ADDRESS:

aroh_uganda@hotmail.com

mugabi@restorationofhope.org