Community Transformation Foundation Network (COTFONE)

Community Transformation Foundation Network
(COTFONE)

Location:Kiwangala (Masaka, Uganda) Setting: RuralEstablished: 2003 Staff: 3

Organization Overview:

Founded by an Orphan himself, COTEFONE is a school, and community development organization that aims to provide a free and holistic education for orphans and other vulnerable children(OVCs) COTFONE provides over 500 orpahsn and OVC with a free traditional education that is supplemented by various other training including vocational skills, health, and hygiene. In addition to these activities COTFONE seeks to assist the guardians of these children, and provides them with a variety of services. This includes a Self Help Group project in which community members pool their financial resources in order to provided for emergency assistance and loans for income generating activities.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: education and vocational training for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)

Health: HIV/AIDS education, malaria prevention, reproductive health education

Community Development: Income generating projects (IGAs), elderly support

Organization Objectives:
COTFONE aims to support underprivileged children and community members to live a better life and to achieve their full potential. The organization uses a holistic approach by targeting the children, their households and communities as parts of their activities. COTFONE’s specific objectives as an organization are to:
• Improve the quality of life of the poor orphans and marginalized members in Kiwangala through the provision of free basic formal education and vocational training with literacy skills
• Improve food security through the introduction of new techniques of farming and other income generating activities
• Provide health education and initiate health care services for general awareness among people about HIV/AIDS and related problems
• Recruit and train counselors and volunteers to take care of persons with HIV/AIDS as well as their children
• Establish Orphans Assistance Scheme, children, youths and older persons recreation center
• Support the elder persons and entire community members through guidance and counseling, income generation by offloading the weight of their grandchildren and providing social services to them

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Step Up Infant and Primary School

Step Up Infant and Primary School

Location:Masaka, Uganda Setting: Semi-Urban Established: 1999 Staff: 20

Organization Overview:

Founded in 1999, Step Up Infant and Primary School is dedicated to educating children in the local community as well as orphans and vulnerable children. Step Up currently has over 500 students enrolled with over 100 students boarding at the school and actively works to ensure that OVC are able to access this education by fundraising to pay for school supplies and school fees. Step Up also provides basic vocational training for its students so that may acquire valuable and potentially profitable skills.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Scholastic support for orphans and vulnerable children(OVC), extracurricular activities, vocational education
Organization Objectives:
• Providing Pre and Primary education to children in the locality including orphans and vulnerable children.
• Teach children according to their ability.
• Provide basic vocational training

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Child Restoration Outreach (CRO) Uganda

Child Restoration Outreach (CRO) Uganda

Location:Masaka, Uganda Setting: Urban Established: 2002 Staff: 10

Organization Overview:

Founded in 1992, Child Restoration Outreach (CRO) has been working to support street children and their families in over four districts throughout Uganda. CRO’s Masaka branch has been in operation since 2002 and has been working to alleviate the daily struggles of street children in and around Masaka town. CRO’s approach focuses on building the capacity of street children so that they can effectively combat and ameliorate the myriad of hardships they face on a daily basis: these include drug addiction, disease, hunger, child labor, sexual exploitation, as well as physical and emotional abuse. While equipping the street children with these tools is effective, CRO recognizes that the only sustainable solution to the problems faced by street children is to reintegrate them with their families. To this ends, CRO provides a variety of trainings, workshops, and resources to the families of street children to assist in the reintegration process as well as to ensure a hospitable environment for the physical, mental, and spiritual development of the children.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Provision of formal & informal education to Street Children
Human Rights: Health Education, Childhood immunizations Advocacy, and basic health care

Community Development: Family Economic Empowerment, Community and Parents’ Sensitization Programs

Organization Objectives:
Child Restoration Outreach (CRO) Masaka is committed to rebuilding the lives of street children - their families and communities. These are their activities:

• Provide Psychosocial care and support to Street Children
• Enroll former street children in formal and informal education programs
• Provide medical services as needed to Street Children
• Conduct routine home visits to families of street children
• Provide adult literacy to the parent and caregivers of street children
• Establish women and men’s clubs within communities
• Develop Self-help Groups in communities with high numbers of street children
• Provide Family Planning and immunization services to targeted communities

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Nazareth Children's Home

Nazareth Children's Home

Location:Masaka, Uganda Setting: Rural Established: 1975 Staff: 2

Organization Overview:

Nazareth Children’s Home is a orphanage for children between the age of 2 and 18 whom have been abandoned by their family. Founded by Ms Josaphine Namakula, an orphan herself, in 1975 Nazareth Children’s Home has provided a safe home environment, schooling, and vocational training for countless abandoned children over the years. Many of these children go on to graduate from prestigious universities and many have come back to Nazareth to contribute to the operation and sustainability of the home.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Formal education, vocational training, child care and housing
Environment and Agriculture organic garden, animal husbandry, appropriate cooking technology

Organization Objectives:
Nazareth is committed to helping the orphans in and around Masaka town by providing them with support in the following areas.

• A safe and comfortable home environment
• Access to good schools
• Training in vocational skills
• Adequate nutrition and health care

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Shikokho Primary School

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1950 Staff: 18

Subject Areas:

Youth: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Education: Formal education that will empower the child to intellectual skills and values of integrity for the sustainable development in the society. Life skills are also taught.
Women's Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies for the girl child.

Organization Objectives:
Shikokho primary school, mission is to provide quality education to the community and the surrounding areas so that the necessary skills are obtained to benefit both themselves and also to empower the physically and spiritually marginalized communities in shikokho area. The school is based on the motto that says hope for the best and whose vision is that we leave Shikokho better than we found it. The school has a population of more than 800 kids and they teach 35 minutes per lesson. The subjects taught include English, Kiswahili, Mathematics, business education, Physical education, science, Geography, History and political science.

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Project Africa

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Urban Established: 2007 Staff: 8

Subject Areas:

Women’s Empowerment: Women and girls empowerment
Human Rights: Women and Children rights and protection
Education: Vocational training, literacy classes
Microfinance: Small business for women in rural areas

Organization Objectives:
Project Africa’s main objective is to empower women by giving them skills and resources for enterprise development in rural areas. It seeks to raise women who will understand that their gifts and talents can make room for their economic uplift more than they have been made to believe.
Its goals are to:
• Remove barriers that prevent women from gaining skills and participating in income generating projects
• Encourage education for girls and adult education for women in rural areas
• Increase micro-credit schemes for women and investing in the agriculture sector

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Kakamega Forest Dispensary

Location: Isecheno, Kakamega Setting: Rural Established: 1970's Staff: 5

Subject Areas:

Health and Community Outreach

Organization Objectives:
The Kakamega Forest Dispensary’s main objective is to provide accessible, reliable health care for persons living in and around the rural area of Isecheno and the surrounding communities. In addition the Dispensary is involved in the following:
• Provide home-based care for those living with HIV/AIDS in and around Isecheno
• Provide and encourage community members to know their HIV status through a government-sponsored Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center.
• Educate community mothers on the importance of vaccination for infants and children and provide once-weekly vaccination days in which they are able to benefit from the administering of free vaccines.
• Promote prevention through outreach programs and the distribution of verbal and printed information regarding pressing health threats like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and malnutrition.

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FORWARD KENYA, Webuye, Kakamega Kenya

Location: Webuye Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1995 Staff: 4

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies and women’s rights.
Health: Better Health Services to the HIV and AIDS
Microfinance: Small Business Training, Poverty reduction program among the vulnerable people.

Organization Objectives:
Forward Kenyans’ obligations is to help Webuye communities and its environs to access better health services for controlling HIV and AIDS and to initiate poverty reduction programs for the communities and to empower the marginalized communities in Western Kenya for better living standards through the promotions and trainings.

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Kakamega Entrepreneurs Savings and Credit Co-Operative Society (KES)

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural/Urban

Subject Areas:

Micocredit: KES is eager to expand the microcredit program to tap into new membership and expand its reach in the community.

Mission:
Kakamega Entrepreneurs Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (KES SACCO) was formed in Kakamega, Kenya in 2002 by members of the community wishing to have the ability to save for the future and access credit for entrepreneurial and personal activities in the present. KES has expanded into active micro-finance organization

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Friends Secondary School, Lusui

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1993 Staff: 25

Subject Areas:

Youth: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Education: To be a center of Academic Excellence responsive to the societal values and needs. Child empower to intellectual skills and values of integrity for the sustainable development in the society.
Women's Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies

Organization Objectives:
Friends Secondary School, mission is to help Lusui, Kakamega community and the surrounding areas obtain the education and skills necessary to benefit both themselves and also to empower the physically and spiritually marginalized communities in Lusui Kakamega Kenya to improve their lives through recognizing the need to anchor its operations on certain guiding principles and values.

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