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Organisatienaam

War Affected Children Association.

Organisatiebeschrijving

War Affected Children Association (WACA) was founded and registered in 2004 as a not- for Profit organization aimed at empowering war victims in the northern part of Uganda. WACA was founded by a group of formerly abducted children who were particularly dedicated to the empowerment of war victims in the region. This group of formerly abducted children felt challenged by the marginalization of war victims especially young mothers in the development arena, These founder members took it upon themselves to develop a friendly financial environment where women would be counseled, trained on sustainable Agricultural production, the benefits of savings mobilization; credit accessibility and appropriate utilization of credit to enable them attain economic empowerment.
Mission: To improve the quality of life of children/youths who have been affected by the war in Northern Uganda by providing them with resource and opportunity for achieving their potential for successful and fulfilling life.
Vision: Educated social well-reintegrated economically stable youth in Northern Uganda.

We open the computer center at this very same place that is plot 6 olya road Gulu town northern Uganda where our office is located.
The great result that we have witnessed is that all the beneficiaries in the 8 groups have got full knowledge in managing their small scale business as well as experience in village saving and loaning including proper management of small fund they are generating out of their small scale business.
The following are the 3 sub-counties where the micro-finance project were expanded these include, Awach, Patiko-Ajulu and Lalogi all are found in Gulu district nortern Uganda.
The microfinance results was achieved in many ways including but not limited to the following;-
• War victims were able to better understand the concepts of savings and loaning in a group
• War victims well re-integrated in the community through the counseling, drama, traditional, songs and plays normally organized by the community counselors trained at the sub counties
• Households income of the group members have increased according to the monitoring and evaluation conducted (at least a group member is able to save from 5,000 – to 10,000 per month in a group, considering that those were the very poor among the communities
• Psychosocial distressed/problems (trauma) among the war victims has reduced as a result of community counselors trained
• Most of the group members are engaged in a profitable Income Generating Activities (IGAs)
• More than 30 groups are now in operation as a result of the 8 groups trained
You expanded the micro-finance project to 03 sub-counties, please state them.
The 3 sub counties were Patiko, Lalogi and Awach but mainly we expanded the number of groups in each sub county because of the need that they present to WACA
What were some of the projects that WACF began by supporting?
WACF started by supporting scholarship for the children born in captivity and the children whose parents were killed during the war
Briefly say something about the agricultural projects supported by WACF. Describe the agricultural production capital that you bought with the support of WACF (e.g. seeds, tools, etc).
WACF though of a project that can help child mothers now that they are taking care of their children single handedly, and they though of Agricultural project which will be a sustainable project after donors funding; they supported 6 groups were they have been given 12 oxen, seeds and the local farm tools
WACA currently has 6 employed staff working in “HOPE” Project (Harnessing opportunity to protect and end violence) being supported by CARE international in Uganda;- namely; Project coordinator, project officer, Accountant, and 3 sub counties coordinators. And 12 parish based volunteers, the 6 staff are a full time employees of WACA and the 12 volunteers are the support staff at the parish level
The sustainable economic empowerment project implemented by WACA and Uganda Women Finance Trust with funding from TROCARE was a big success to the community and up to date the over 40 groups mobilized and trained are still practicing the savings and loaning concepts, a good income generating activities are in place even after the end of the donor support 2 years ago, by this would mean the WACA idea to extend the same service to other community would mean sustainability after the 1%club funding

Legale status

S.5914/5027 (National Certificate), 1676 (District Certificate office of community development officer)

Website

No website

Partner organisaties

The WACF was formed in the year 2007
Three people who are working for WACF.
The WACF connected WACA to 1% club and other role is that they will monitor the implementation of this project and lobby for more funding
CARE is an International organization that works with others to make sustainable improvement in the lives of the very poor. And CARE is working globally; CARE’s Vision; “seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security”
In this project CARE will stand as our reference partner
TROCARE works on environmental conservation, economic empowerment etc.
We were not directly in partnership with TROCARE but Uganda Women Micro Finance Trust was our partner and they were partner to TROCARE for a one year project implementation of a project of which TROCARE was a donor to Uganda Women Finance Trust but not to WACA. They are not involve in this project but you can contact them for the reference.
Uganda Women Finance Trust is still a very active partner with WACA but for this project they are not yet involve.