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Action For Children (AFC), Kampala
2004 – $ 5,000
AFC is a child rescue and advocacy agency that uses child and
adult counselors to provide psychosocial support and life skills
training to children affected by the war in Northern Uganda.
The organization also offers revolving loans to support income-generating
activities. They reach children through youth clubs that meet
twice a week to help them cope with the effects of HIV/AIDS.
This Firelight grant enables AFC to train 30 counselors who
will reach 100 adolescents and train 18 youth in leadership
skills.
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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.
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Centre for Environment Technology and Rural Development
(CETRUD), Kasese
2004 – $30,000 (Two-year grant)
With two previous Firelight Foundation grants, CETRUD
provided small business management training and microcredit
loans for 17 caregivers and seed grants to 30 additional caregivers
and orphans and vulnerable children. It also funded ongoing
technical training and support to loan recipients. With renewed
Firelight support, CETRUD continues to identify caregivers
of vulnerable children and is providing training and seed
grants for income-generating activities to 40 caregivers.
In addition, CETRUD is establishing an emergency fund to assist
orphans and caretakers in crisis.
2004 – $2,000
This grant helps to re-establish four small businesses that
were destroyed by heavy wind and rain. Income from these businesses
supports a total of 26 children.
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.
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Friends of Christ Revival Ministries (FOC-REV),
Busia
2005 – $15,000
FOC-REV was formed to offer holistic care to people living with
HIV/AIDS and orphans in Busia district. With previous Firelight
funding FOC-REV extended educational support to more than 200
vulnerable children and purchased equipment and supplies used
in vocational training. This regrant supports FOC-REV’s
educational assistance programs, which will meet the varied
educational expenses of 323 young people. FOC-REV is also training
34 HIV-positive parents in succession planning and memory book
preparation. Additionally, to improve household incomes, FOC-REV
is distributing 150 goats to vulnerable households.
2004 – $10,000
FOC-REV was formed to care for orphans and people living with
HIV/AIDS in Busia District. Since their founding in 1999, FOC-REV
has grown to almost 700 members. With previous Firelight funding,
FOC-REV provided schools fees, materials, and books to nearly
200 children. They also conducted life skills training for youth.
This grant enables the organization to continue educational
support while expanding their health, nutritional, and vocational
education programming.
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.
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Friends For Orphans (FRO), Pader
2005 – $10,000
Established by a group of six university-trained young men,
themselves former child soldiers, FRO responds to the needs
of former child soldiers and their families in northern Uganda.
FRO’s core program includes educational support, sports
and recreational activities, counseling, and food assistance.
Through these activities FRO intends to address the income needs
of beneficiaries, while also addressing issues of stability,
nutrition, and education. FRO is using Firelight funding to
initiate an income-generating activity for 50 vulnerable children
and nine caregivers. The program includes vocational training
in tailoring, poultry raising, and crafts production, along
with education about HIV/AIDS.
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Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme,
Mukono
2005 – $15,000
Kyetume works to enhance the emotional wellbeing of people affected
by HIV and to reduce sexually transmitted infections among youth.
With previous funding Kyetume strengthened community-care structures
by forming 18 orphan support groups and training 48 community
counseling aides. Funds also supported Kyetume’s organic
farming project, which benefited 77 children in 30 households.
With this regrant Kyetume is assisting 30 households caring
for a minimum of three orphans each by expanding its integrated
organic farming activities. The organization is providing the
households with 15 heifer cows and training them in animal husbandry
and crop production. It is also training 30 households in entrepreneurial
skills and providing a loan fund to seed income-generating activities.
2004 – $10,000
The Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme facilitates
the psychological and social adjustment of people living with
HIV/AIDS and provides youth with information on how to prevent
the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
Previous Firelight funding covered the purchase of dairy cows,
vegetable seeds, and other supplies to provide income-generating
activities and improved nutrition to families caring for orphans.
It also provided training and instruction in animal husbandry
and crop production. Regrant funds help Kyetume extend and replicate
their low-cost organic farm project to support child-headed
households. The project will also educate community members
and young people in child rights and life skills.
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.
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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.
2003 – $ 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.
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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.
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St. Francis Health Care Services, Jinja
2004 – $ 30,000
St. Francis offers a compassionate and comprehensive response
to the local HIV/AIDS epidemic. Firelight’s first grant
funded income-generating projects for 100 caregivers, fed
700 children, and supported a community medical and counseling
team. Funds also helped St. Francis register over 1,100 children
in school and mentoring programs. Building on the experience
of their first grant, St. Francis Health Care Services will
use the regrant funds to provide livelihood opportunities
and medical supplies to orphans and families living with HIV/AIDS.
2004 – $ 4,000
With this documentation grant, St. Francis is creating an
organizational website and producing an annual report.
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.
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Student’s Self-Helper Initiative (SSHINE),
Jinja
2004 – $ 7,700
SSHINE encourages positive behavior change for HIV prevention
among youth. Past Firelight funding has facilitated SSHINE’s
HIV/AIDS sensitization and communication workshops. This grant
helps the organization expand their activities to new audiences
through life skills and values training for caregivers, out-of-school
youth, and student leaders.
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.
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Youth Alive Club (YAC), Kampala
2005 – $ 15,000
Originally organized to promote faith, values, and positive
behavior through a small network of support clubs, YAC now
reaches thousands of youth through 250 clubs spread across
five regions of Uganda. YAC encourages HIV prevention by advocating
for “informed and responsible” decision-making among
youth. The organization hosts performing arts festivals, sports
competitions, peer education opportunities, and lifeskills
development seminars. YAC has used previous Firelight grants
to conduct Education for Life seminars, video shows, and school-based
awareness-raising activities, and to run training-of-trainers
workshops to build grassroots capacity. These funds enable
YAC to hire coordinators for programs in the northern and
central regions of Uganda. YAC is also providing psychosocial
support training and life-skills seminars for 4,000 peer educators
and other youth.
2004 – $ 14,300
Youth Alive supports positive and healthy lifestyles among
young people. Previous Firelight assistance helped Youth Alive
conduct “Education for Life” Anti-AIDS Workshops
for 500 youth. They also reached additional young people through
community-based video shows and trained 180 peer educators.
This regrant helps Youth Alive reach more youth living in
rural areas through workshops, video shows, and peer education
trainings.
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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