Young mothers and youth empowerment
Empowerment of women and youth is an important component in community development. In our rural sub counties, there are many women we got married at early ages of bellow 18 who we refer to as “young mothers”. After joining family life, they experience so many challenges such as over dependance, domestic violence, poor feeding, illnesses, poor hygiene, among others that all result from poverty. Most youth are school dropouts who remain in their villages involving themselves in drug abuse, sexual abuse, and playing cards among others that expose their lives to danger of death. We believe that empowering these groups of people with skills to help them fight poverty is more beneficial and these benefits does not end with them but also benefits the whole community in which they live. We provide carrion bags making and basketry skills, hair dressing, computer, carpentry, group formation and management trainings to these young mothers and the youth.
Community Hope Development
foundation is committed to create positive and sustainable change within the rural community through working with the beneficiaries to identify their challanges, posible solutions and becomes part of implimenting the proposed solution.
We believe that providing a skill to a beneficiary is more important than giving money that is consumed with no lasting results.
RURAL FARMERS EMPOWERMENT
CHDF considers empowerment of farmers as an important aspect through which poverty within their households that has parsisted for so long can be prevented. Farmers have been provided with trainings on how to improve farming methods, how to fight coffee pests and diseases, maintaining quality among others but are still being cheeted by middle men who buy their coffee utilising their illiteracy that fails them to interpreat weighing scales, calculators, price notice materials, among others.
Currently CHDF with support from Feed The Minds is focussing on improving literacy and numiracy levels of rural coffee farmers so that they are able to apply the knowledge they will acquire in their coffee farming and business.
We feel that by the end of this project, over 420 farmers grouped in 12 classes of 35 each will have improved literacy and numiracy skills.
EARLY
CHILD EDUCATION PROMOTION
Early child education
according to Community Hope Development Foundation is the type of teaching
provided to children of 2-6 years of age with a particular focus on education
in the period before the start of the compulsory primary education provided by
the Government of Uganda under the Universal primary Education (UPE) Program. The
focus to the age of 2-6 as our first priority does not limit us to serve the
other group of above 6 years of age considering important circumstances such as
the distance moved by children to primary schools, weather changes among
others.
Under this Program we established
Moon Light Nursery school project in Bulembia division through which we provide
early child education and holiday’s Currier guidance
services
We hope that children,
who benefit from early child care and education services, are more likely to be
healthy, have the capacity to continue with education, stay longer and perform
better in their future self and community developments.
During the past decade, health has achieved
unprecedented prominence as a key driver of socioeconomic progress, and more
resources than ever are being invested in health. Yet poverty continues to
contribute to poor health, and poor health anchors large populations in poverty.
Health development is directed by the ethical principle of equity: Access to
life-saving or health-promoting interventions should not be denied for unfair
reasons, including those with economic or social roots. Globally, it is estimated that
4000 children die every day due to lack of access to hygienic sanitation and
clean water (WHO 2010).
CHDF is concerned in
promoting and improving community health and sanitation in our rural areas of
operation. Our efforts are focused on improving access to clean water, Water
tanks construction, improved toilets and proper use, proper hygienic behaviors
such as hand washing with water and soap after using toilets among others.
These are the areas that community hope focuses on in its areas of operation.
We pray that you who is reading can stand in whatever way, join us to better
serve our communities.
Environmental conservation/ Climate adaptation for farmers
A protected environment
is vital for community development and for a better living of all living
organisms including human beings. Communities which are environmentally
degraded effects community developments through floods, landslides, heavy
sunshine, heavy winds among others which lead to crop and property destruction,
increases spread of diseases, displacement of families among others. The fact
that the first measure to think about is tree planting and that most people in
our areas of operation own and stay on small pieces of land, CHDF considers
involving famers to adopt climate change
practices as important. They integrate climate and environmental
conservation measures in their daily farming practices. CHDF provides tree
seedlings especially fruit trees, trains on environmentally friendly methods of
farming, curry out community environmental sensitizations among others.
Find us on;
Email: comhopefoundation@gmail.com.
Tel: +256(0)787314285, +256(0)783546916.
