Hands of Grace Africa (HGA)

About us

Hands of Grace Africa (HGA) is registered as a non-profit, community based organization. It was formed by the vision of Kulaba Geoffrey and later joined by Mukisa Ronald. Hands of Grace Africa works with orphans, street children and widows, within three districts: Jinja, Bugiri and Kamuli. HGA started in Jinja District and later extended to Bugiri then later to Kamuli. The Hands of Grace Africa main offices are located in a semi urban area in Jinja District.

Vision
Hands of Grace Africa aims to change the many lives of the under-served orphans and widows to happier lives.

Mission
Hands of Grace Africa will create better lives for the orphans and widows through volunteer-led strategic programming.

What we do
• Village Teaching and Outreach: HGA works with a number of partner organizations that partner with small community based organizations to provide counselling, health care and education for rural people and other vulnerable children. Some of these placements focus exclusively on teaching primary lessons and extra-curricular activities. Other placements include training and service outreach components.
• Activities with Children: Volunteers work with orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) in accomplishing daily activities involving: teaching basic English, math, science, physical education and financial literacy. Volunteers assist with homework, participate in playtime activities and teach new languages such as, French, German and Italian. The largest contribution a volunteer can give is providing care, love and attention to the children. By developing stimulating new ideas that interest the children, volunteers can engage on a level that makes OVC feel loved and cared for just as their parents would have done.
• Medical Support: HGA introduced a program that provides medical treatment to people within the rural communities of Jinja. Through this program, we carry out dental treatments, blood check-ups and blood donations.
• School Programs: In this program our volunteers work in schools, holding counselling sessions, offering encouraging words, and uplifting the talents and life skill of the women and children we serve. In doing so we believe that we shall bring up a new generation which will change Africa.
• Youth Empowerment Initiatives: Through this program volunteers train the youth in the areas of computer literacy, carpentry, mechanics and entrepreneurship skills. Our aim is reducing a poverty line within Africa by encouraging the youth to engage in activities that bring about love, joy and peace such as sports, dance music and entertainment.
• Women Empowerment: Under women empowerment we carry out training's in entrepreneurship skills and life self-sustaining skills, in this woman are trained according to their interests, some get training's in entrepreneurship skills, sowing skills, art and craft. We believe that through these programs the vulnerable women will be able to take care of their families.
• Public Health Improvement: Through the Public Health Improvement Project, volunteers work alongside local counselors and health care professionals, in a variety of programs designed to help Ugandans stay healthy and make good decisions about their health care. Volunteers talk to people in village meetings, private homes, and churches. They design seminars based on subjects that can include household hygiene, malaria prevention, safe sex, HIV prevention and AIDS care, substance abuse and domestic violence. Volunteers can also work in clinics and maternity branches of hospitals, speaking directly to women and girls about safe sex, family planning, maternal and nutrition. Basic training and educational materials are on site. Volunteers are also encouraged to bring new materials.
• Poverty Alleviation Activities for Sustainable Development: This program is concerned with teaching communities about the causes of poverty, in addition to equipping them with strategies to overcome states of poverty. These strategies focus on the areas of agriculture productivity, saving schemes, and the entrepreneurial mindset.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.