Help our community and share your skills in Mbale, Uganda

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  Description

  My Name is Mukhwana. The director and founder of the Centre. I am passionate about children born with down-syndrome disability and other vulnerable children. We are currently creating awareness in the community, counseling and doing community visits where the needy and vulnerable children are.
  We do the following activities.
  * We support these children to acquire education and we create social interaction with other children.
  * Reading, writing and drawing.
  * We create time for playing games like football, netball, skipping the ropes and mind games.
  * Discipleship. Teach them Bible stories,
  * Guidance and counseling.
  * Teach them art and craft and DIY skills
  * Personal hygiene and general cleanness for healthy living.
  * We also train the community groups (women, men and youth) with micro-finance entrepreneurship skills.
  * Training parents/guardians on positive parenting and child care.
  * Agro-business. We have provided two spraying pumps and two watering cans for men and women groups.
  * Entrepreneurship skills to improve on individual income generation.
  
  OUR TESTIMONY.
  Our daughter Esther (third born) is born with Down syndrome and we discovered it at three months. It was long after she was born. This condition was not detected at birth and the news caused a lot fear in us, we wondered how the relatives and the community will look at us. However through research, counseling from friends and prayers we managed to over come the fear and trauma.
  
  Many parents here believe that this disability is caused by bad luck or witchcraft. It’s also true that children with downs syndrome are sometimes hidden, abandoned or neglected by their parents and encounter discrimination in the community because of the above mis-conception. As a result, these children find it hard to integrate with fellow children in school, places of worship and other community activities due to fear of shame from the public.
  
  We are the voice of hope to parents of children with disabilities and going through the same fear and challenges like we did. We are here to encourage children born with Down syndrome that they are like other normal children. They need love; care and patience because they have the potential to achieve great milestones in every aspect of life.
  
  We have three locally paid staff.
  
  1) The Social worker. This one does the community visits and sensitization and teaching entrepreneurship skills and other social human needs 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
  We need support to;
  1. We plan to Build a special needs school for children with Down syndrome in order to help them have a conducive learning Environment without any effect.
  2. To see Down syndrome, orphans and needy children acquire education through paying for them school fees and other basic needs like books, uniform, pens pencils among others.
  3. Establish a skills Centre/vocational school for the teenage mothers to acquire the necessary skills for self sustainability hence fighting poverty.
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  4.Have a children’s community Centre with play items to help them develop their mind set for social development.
  5. Acquire demonstration farm for farming skills and also grow our own food and attaining food security.
  6. Create owners Income Generating Activities in order to raise support for children’s needs and attaining organization future self sustainability.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bénévolat

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Compagnie pour pers. âgée

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Camping

  

  Fitness

  

  Culture

  

  Ferme

  

  Bénévolat

  

  Écriture

  

  Histoire

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Musique

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Art et design

  

  Photographie

  

  Langues

  

  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Blogs

  

  Architecture

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Sports d'équipe

  

  Nature

  

  Montagne

  

  Danse

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Plage

  

  Randonnée

  

  Cyclisme

  

  Sports d'aventure
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  as a Workwayers you will not only support the organisation but you will have an opportunity of seeing the great sights of our Country Gifted by Nature. bellow are some of the things you will be able to learn,
  
  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 at Museum.
  Visit Water falls from mount Elgon Slopes of Siipi Fall, Sisiyi Falls
  Go Hiking and Mount Elgon site seeing
  Experience use of motor-cycle transport called "Boda boda"
  Learn how to prepare different delicious local meals like, "matooke, malewa" and Chapati.
  Learn Typical African home setting and parenting style.
  Learn about the different African beliefs and traditions.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We would like support in the following areas ;
  1. CHILD SUPPORT PROGRAME
  Creating community awareness about down syndrome, Counseling the children with disability and their parents.
  Teach children on reading and writing
  Teach Children the Rymes.
  Support and play with children during Saturday
  Teaching language and reading skills to children
  Special needs teacher for children with disability and needy/Vulnerable Children.
  2. SKILLS TRAINING
  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.
  Teach Art and Craft to children.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  Kiswahili Luganda Lumasaba German French Italian
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  Hébergement

  we have one spacious visitors room in our house for accommodation (visitors)
  We have plenty of local food stuff that helpers can learn to prepare. eg Matooke, Malewa, millet bread. etc.

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  Autres infos...

  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.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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