Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 4846
Country/Region: Uganda
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Salvation Army
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: FBO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $302,076

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $302,076

This program focuses on community counseling, psychosocial support and women's empowerment. The first is community counselling of village communities in 12 Districts of Uganda, using existing Salvation Army churches and pastors as the starting point to reach out into the wider communities beyond the church circle. This activity is particularly aimed at families and homes affected by HIV/AIDS and those with orphaned and vulnerable children.The second activity is to provide psychosocial support (PSS) for the young people in these communities by forming KAY (Kids and Youth) Clubs, which will provide meeting places, social and sporting activities and a base from which PSS couselors can work to increase AIDS awareness and AIDS preventative life styles for the 12 to 20 age group. The PSS program also aims to create a sense of mutual trust and confidence in the peer group and a sense of self respect and dignity which will enable the young people to contribute to their own communities.Our third activity area the formation of communities women's groups with the aim of creating women's empowerment by raising the levels of literacy, using a teaching method developed by PACT and currently being translated in Lugisu for use in eastern Uganda. The empowerment of women continues in the WORTH income generating groups where women form their own savings schemes, lend to group members for small business ventures, thus increasing family incomes and creating the opportunities for children to go to school and receive better and more regular nourishment.Two important strands through all these activities are the striving to eliminate gender inequalities and poor treatment of women and the removal of stigmatization from HIV/AIDS sufferers and their care givers. In addition to the PEPFAR targets, this activity plans to accomplish the following in FY06: 50 CATs formed; 30 New KAY Clubs formed; 60 PSS trained individuals trained; 30 WORTH income generating groups formed; 5,000 reading scheme books printed and distributed; a significant change in behaviour patterns in young people choosing abstinence and delaying their early sexual encounters.

Subpartners Total: $90,000
Pact, Inc.: $90,000