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My Name is Mukhwana David. The director and founder of Esther Links Children's Centre. I am passionate about children, living with disability, needy and vulnerable. We are currently creating awareness in the community, doing community visits where the needy and vulnerable children are so as to help them enjoy their right to education, medical and social wellbeing.
We also train the community groups (women, men and youth) with micro-finance/ entrepreneurship skills for economic empowerment, to meet their daily family needs and children's needs.
We have three locally paid staff.
1) The Social worker. This one does the community visits and sensitization and teaching entrepreurship skills and other social human needs as may arise from time to time and also does counseling.
2) The Nurse. This one attends to the children's general health needs and makes referrals to where necessary.
3) The Teacher. This teaches the reading and writing skills and also sounds/verbal training for the children with down syndrome. we have plans of hiring another teacher to help the needy and orphans also with reading, writing skills, singing and playing with them
This team doesn't work alone but along side other local volunteers to achieve our goals.
FUTURE PLANS
*Build a special needs school for children with Down syndrome.
*To see Down syndrome, orphans and needy children acquire education. (school fees and scholastic materials)
*Establish a skills Centre/vocational school for the teen mums Down syndrome, orphans and needy children.
*Have a children’s community Centre.
*Acquire demonstration farm for farm skills.
* Create Income Generating Activities to raise support for children’s needs.Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity WorkLanguage practiceHelp with Eco ProjectsTeachingGardeningHelp with Computers/ InternetUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Appreciate our tradition cultural practices of circumcision of youth passage to adulthood called "imbalu".
Learn how we carry out marriage ceremonies in African tradition
Learning our local languages dialect
Visit famous historical sites
Visit Water falls from mount Elgon Slopes
Do Mount climbing and site seeing
Experience use of motor-cycle transport called "Boda boda"
Learn how to prepare different delicious local meals like, "matooke, malewa"
Learn Typical African home setting and parenting style.
Learn about the different African beliefs and traditions.Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We would like support in the following areas ;
Creating community awareness about down syndrome, Counseling the children with disability and their parents.
Teaching language and reading skills to children
Teaching Vocational skills to the youths.
Training Women and men in Village saving groups( Micro-finance skills)
Entrepreneurship/ business skills, to improve on group/ individual income.
Special needs teacher for children with disability and needy/Vulnerable Children.
Teach Art and Craft to children.Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Lumasaba Kiswahili LugandaAccommodation
we have one spacious visitors room in our house for accommodation (visitors)
What else ...
Visit our local churches
visiting our local markets
Mount climbing on mount Elgon Slopes
Visiting Water falls from mount elgon sipi falls.
Learn Lumasaba local dialect.
Playing with children.
We have plenty of local food stuff that helpers can learn to prepare. eg Matooke, Malewa, millet bread. etc.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.
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You created a permanent change in the lives of children born with down-syndrome disability, the needy and vulnerable community children, through the reading and writing skills you taught sacrificially and tirelessly.
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