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Organisatienaam

Hope Alive Uganda

Organisatiebeschrijving

Hope Alive Uganda is a non-governmental organization formed by the community in 2005. It was officially registered as a CBO in 2008 and in 2009, the process to register the organization as NGO will be completed.
Hope Alive Uganda was formed to support orphans and needy children, because it found that 75 % of the children are unable to go to school. These children are most of the time unable to go to school due to the death of their parents or guardians who have left them without means of survival. Most of them have died of HIV/AIDS.
Hope Alive Uganda registered 300 orphans and needy children and tries to provide them with necessary assistance. The percentage of girls is higher than boys. Its first objective is to support the orphans and needy children so that they can get an education and to find ways and means to meet their spiritual, physical and social needs. It also seeks to address the problems of girls in order to see that girls are getting the same opportunities as boys. Hope Alive Uganda tries to work hand in hand with other organizations to achieve its goals.

10 people work for HAU within the organization. Several volunteers work for the several projects we are running. We have volunteers from the World school in the Netherlands working on a hiv/aids & malaria task, we have a volunteer working on the ground who is the team leader of hiv/aids counseling, we have volunteers in the Netherlands working on tasks through the 1 % club, we have volunteers working on tasks through Nabuur.

We run several projects:
• goats project (in total, 38 orphans have received a goat. The idea behind this is that the orphans can breed the goats and can earn money to sustain themselves and pay school fees, school uniforms, school materials, daily needs etc. The first female offspring is handed back to HAU which will then be passed on to another orphan. In this way, the project can continue. HAU monitors the project).
• School project. HAU plans to build a primary school for the orphans and needy children.
• Chicken project. The chicken project will start early 2010. It is an income generating project.
• Glasses project. Eye clarify, Hans Anders and CZ have donated about 1600 pairs of glasses in total and enabled HAU to set up an ‘eyecamp’ to provide the community with free pairs of glasses.
• A project to empower women  this project will start in 2010.

Hope Alive Uganda was founded in 2008 in Kisozi, Kamuli district. There are many orphans in Kisozi, Hope Alive Uganda has registered more than 300 orphans, but the number is even bigger than this. Many orphans have lost their parents because of AIDS. Many orphans are looked after by guardians or other members in the community in Kisozi. Hope Alive Uganda decided to focus on this group as the children are the most vulnerable group in Kisozi, but also the group for whom we can create a better future. We have 1 Ugandan volunteer in Kisozi and we are planning to cooperate with two dutch organizations to send dutch volunteers to us from April 2010 on. The two dutch organisations HAU will be working with for the volunteers are: Horizon Holland Foundation and Different Africa Connection.In the Netherlands, we have volunteers working for Hope Alive Uganda to develop educational materials, to help with fundraising etc. Hope Alive Uganda operates in the Kamuli district solely. Nabuur is an online volunteering platform. We can put tasks on that website we need help with and people can respond to it and help us with that task (for instance if one needs help with a brochure or the website, one can puts a request for help on that website). The project on empowering women has started; we have started with a crafts project. Women are making necklaces and those are sold in the Netherlands where we have created a small market with shops, hairdressers and museum selling the women’s’ necklaces. Profits are given back 100 %. As far as the goats projects is concerned: we run this goats project to support orphans with school fees, school uniforms and school materials. The director in Uganda is responsible for monitoring and regularly checks and instructs the orphans (each month). Members of Hope Alive assist in monitoring this project. The chicken has started in the sense that accommodation for the chicken are ready, materials are bought and 600 chicken have been ordered. At the end of February those chicken will arrive.

Legale status

Registered as CBO CD/2482

Website

http://www.hopealiveuganda.org

Partner organisaties

HAU Nederland  HAU has an officially registered branch in the Netherlands. HAU is the Dutch branch of Hope Alive Uganda, which was officially registered in the Netherlands in October 2009. Since this is the Dutch branch of Hope Alive Uganda, it is led by the same people as Hope Alive Uganda in Uganda. This branch of the organization is particularly involved in fundraising and executive activities.
GGNET  GGNET funds the building of a borehole. GGNET runs a water campaign throughout 2009-2010. Profits and funds raised through the water campaign they run will be donated to Hope Alive Uganda for the purpose of building a borehole. This project consists of 2 parts: the borehole and a water campaign (safe drinking water, hygiene, the hygienic use of latrines etc.). The water campaign was held in Kisozi in October 2009. The borehole itself is not completed yet, as the campaign will run in 2010 as well and in phases profits and funds will be handed to Hope Alive Uganda for building this borehole for the community. In Kisozi there is 1 borehole, which needs to be shared by 2000 people, so the need for a second borehole in the village is high. GGNET is Hope Alive Uganda’s partner in this particular project.
Eyeclarify  Eyeclarify provides the possibility for HAU to set up ‘eyecamps’ to provide the community with free pairs of glasses
Africasports  supports the local football team. Africasports supports the local football team with new football uniforms, socks and shoes and footballs to improve their sports skills and giving them the opportunity to be able to play on a higher level.
Cycling out of poverty  is partnering with Hope Alive Uganda in a cycling-to-school-project. Cycling out of poverty is an officially registered organization in the Netherlands that runs bicycle projects in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burkino Faso. Cycling out of poverty is partnering with Hope Alive Uganda from February 2010 on. Together with Cycling out of poverty, Hope Alive Uganda is in the initial phase of setting up a cycling-to-school project, which is an income generating project. A training programme will be set up for the youth in Kisozi, a repair shop will be opened and students that need to come from far can buy a bike on credit. In this way, students that now still have to walk and need to come from very far to go to school, will have the chance not to miss out on education anymore, to come across less dangers on their way to school and will be trained to improve their circumstances and to generate income. The income generating activities will be: opening a repair shop for bikes, the students will buy a bike on credit. Cycling out of poverty sets up cycling-to-school income generating projects like this in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana. It will not be available to non-students. It is available to students who can apply for it.

The Dutch branch of Hope Alive Uganda is responsible for the contacts laid and the co-operations set up between Hope Alive Uganda and these organizations. The cycling-to-school project will particularly benefit the orphans in Kisozi, as well as projects run by Hope Alive Uganda itself (such as the goat and chicken project, beds project) For the beds project we collect the depositis on returnable bottles in the Netherlands through which we are able to buy a bed, mattrass, sheets and blankets for orphans that sleep on the ground. We have been able to provide 10 children with this so far.