A brief description about Uganda Empowers:
Uganda Empowers is a non-profit community based organization registered with Lwengo District Local Government Council under Reg. No. CD/LDLG/421, staffed with a team of counselors, nurses, expert clients on HIV/AIDS, a drama group of orphans and other vulnerable children, youth and people with different professions.
Uganda Empowers primarily operates in the rural settings purposely to boost peoples’ ways of living at different programs, but mainly focuses at fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS and all its impacts like the stigma and discrimination, practiced on infected individuals and their families, through counseling services, community health talk lectures, traditional performances and art/creativity to individuals, married couples, groups.
Uganda Empowers was founded in 2010 by Matsiko Johnbosco a counselor on HIV/AIDS and a community volunteer on children/youth affairs, environment/sanitation, etc. supported by Juliet of the Kaaka’s children, Stefanie Parker and Angel Nelson.
Address (Project head offices).
Lwengo District
Lwengo Sub-county
Kyawagonya Parish
Lwempama – Piida Trading Centre, 26metres off Kampala – Mbarara highway.
P.O.BOX 663 Masaka
Email: ugandaempowers@gmail.com
Website: www.ugandaempowers.org
Contact person 1 - UGANDA.
Counselor Johnbosco Matsiko
Program director at Uganda Empowers
Lwengo, Kyawagonya - Piida
P.O.BOX 663 Masaka
Tel: +256(0)753 310 043
Email: matsiko001@gmail.com OR ugandaempowers@gmail.com
Uganda Empowers’ mission and objectives:
Uganda Empowers’ mission is to “Empower our brothers and sisters towards a better tomorrow” by connecting people in the local settings to the modern knowledge, aiding institutions and volunteers as shown in the objectives/programs below;
Uganda Empowers’ objectives and current programs for 2012 – 2013.
About Uganda Empowers’ clients:
Uganda Empowers has clients in different sections, who are mainly determined by the on-going programs and our services may cut an individual, a family and a community in the target settings like, homes, remote villages, schools, prisons, trading centres and etc, for example;
Inspirations for the initiation of Uganda Empower:
After witnessing infection, disease, death and impacts like the stigma and isolations raising from HIV/AIDS on the village level and national wide, Counselor Johnbosco Matsiko shared the concern with friends and then they came-up with an idea of starting a network that would bring some control over the infection and all its impacts.
This effort aimed at providing and building hopes for early diagnosis of HIV, getting enrolled on treatment in time and finding solutions to impacts like the Stigma, poverty, early death and others that rise from the infection and diseases.
After identifying the values of a good health, Uganda Empowers started to campaign for a good green nature, a crime free civilization (substance free), a financial self-sustenance and support for the deprived brothers and sisters.
Efforts introduced by Uganda Empowers to over-come HIV/AIDS and its impacts:
Conclusion:
AIDS has further affected families psychologically and emotionally. The psychological effects start with the knowledge of ones’ OR a family members’ sero-status. People affected by AIDS go through periods of shock, denial, depression, bargaining and anxiety. Such feelings arise from the fact that AIDS is a disease with no cure, the result being death.
Most people affected by AIDS are traumatized with the fear associated with going through long painful periods of illness, leaving behind other family members especially children with almost no support, facing stigma and frustration of not meeting their ambitions. Therefore every one of us has got a responsibility to guard against HIV infection; to fight the spread of HIV infection and to support people affected by HIV infection and disease.
A brief description about Uganda Empowers:
Uganda Empowers is a non-profit community based organization registered with Lwengo District Local Government Council under Reg. No. CD/LDLG/421, staffed with a team of counselors, nurses, expert…