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FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION Annual Report First 4 Years: 2000–2003 Text-only Version
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GRANTS 2000 – 2003 Uganda
Population Population under age 18 HIV adult seroprevalence Orphans as percent of all children Total number of orphans Percent of orphans due to AIDS Total Firelight funding Number of grants given Number of grantee-partners Percent of grantees regranted		24.0 million 13.5 million 5% 15% 1.73 million 51% $121,500 12 8 38%
BLESSED MARTYRS ORPHANAGE CENTRE, Kampala
2002 – $4,700	The Centre, serving 380 abandoned children, is utilizing the grant to build a carpentry and woodworking workshop in order to provide vocational skills training opportunities.
CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CETRUD), Kasese
2003 – $15,000	The philosophy driving CETRUD is that orphaned children grow and thrive more fully in family homes, rather than orphanages. Building on lessons learned from a previous grant, CETRUD is providing 30 additional seed grants to caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children. Funds will also cover ongoing technical training and support to the caregivers.
2002 – $5,000	With this grant, CETRUD provides small business management training to 17 caregivers and offers microcredit loans for the start up of new businesses.
FRIENDS OF CHRIST REVIVAL MINISTRIES (FOC-REV), Busia
2002 – $10,000	FOC-REV was founded to care for people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans in the Busia district. Grant funds enable FOC-REV to provide tuition assistance to 60 secondary school children and purchase required school uniforms for 127 primary school children. FOC-REV is also purchasing computer equipment and vocational skills training equipment, including carpentry tools and four sewing machines.
KYETUME COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH CARE PROGRAMME, Mukono
2002 – $5,000	Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme strives to enhance the psychological and social adjustment of people infected with and affected by HIV. Recognizing the importance of household food security in meeting this goal, they initiated a farming program for vulnerable families. Firelight funding covers the purchase of a dairy cow, vegetable seeds, and other supplies in order to provide income-generating activities and improved nutrition to 300 families caring for orphans. The Programme will also provide training and instruction in animal husbandry and crop production.
NATIONAL COALITION OF WOMEN LIVING WITH AIDS (NACWOLA), Kampala
2003 – $15,000	NACWOLA’s activities include support groups for HIV-positive women, income-generating activities for widows and orphaned children, home visits, and counseling. NACWOLA’s memory book project provides a family history and connection for children with parents who have HIV/AIDS. It also ensures that parents plan for the future by establishing wills and guardianship arrangements. Firelight funds are providing vocational training for orphaned children, awareness seminars for children and caregivers on reproductive health and family life, and follow-up support to HIV-positive mothers participating in the memory book project.
$5,000	This grant is helping purchase a used vehicle to improve rural outreach.
2001 – $20,000	Grant funds provide children affected by HIV/AIDS with counseling services, memory books, school fees, material support, vocational training, home visits, and cultural events.
ST. AGNES CATHOLIC WOMENS GUILD, Jinja
2001 – $11,500	In order to support 40 orphans, St. Agnes makes oil cakes which they sell locally. Firelight is funding bakery machinery, raw materials, and other items needed to expand their project into a bread baking enterprise to generate income and employment to support more orphans.
ST. FRANCIS HEALTH CARE SERVICES, Jinja
2003 – $15,000	St. Francis Health Care Services’ primary focus has been to strengthen the community to respond to HIV through prevention and care, and to restore hope and dignity to those affected. This grant supports the medical and counseling team that serves children and their families and provides for the supervision and facilitation of income-generating activities for caregivers.
2001 – $10,000	The funds allow St. Francis Health Care Services to create income-generating activities for foster caregivers, provide food for needy children, and support the medical and counseling team that serves children and their families.
STUDENT’S SELF-HELPER INITIATIVE (SSHINE), Jinja
2002 – $5,000	SSHINE is a community-based organization that seeks to help children and young people make responsible choices. With grant funds, SSHINE provides three HIV/AIDS sensitization trainings and three behavior change communication workshops for students and teachers in three area schools. They will also train at least 80 primary and post-primary school children in life skills and human values development. The grant also covers tuition and school materials for five vulnerable children.
YOUTH ALIVE CLUB, Apac District
2002 – $11,800	Youth Alive Club grew out of the need to help youth avoid contracting HIV/AIDS so that they might live to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. Clubs were formed to promote positive and healthy lifestyles, faith and values, and positive behavioral change. Using grant funds, the Youth Alive Club offers Education for Life Anti-AIDS workshops to approximately 500 young people, as well as trains 180 peer educators. As part of their education campaign, they are organizing two community sensitization seminars, video shows, and music, drama, and poetry festivals. They are also purchasing a motorcycle to facilitate ongoing follow-up and support to the peer educators.
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