Community Hive Organisation (CHO)
Gayaza - Namulonge Road
Kabanyoro, Wakiso District
Uganda
Contact person: Godfrey Nsubuga
+256 752 991319; ;+256772678270
prog.managers@gmail.com
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https://www.givingway.com/organization/community-hive-organisation
Topics
- Aid organization
- Social policy/disabled persons
- Educational policy/project
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Community Hive Organization (CHO) is a not for profit informal group of young people/former interns who are highly committed and motivated to serve older persons, and needy children with diligence, love and compassion to help them improve the quality of life and enable them to live with dignity like any other categories of people in the area. The idea behind this innovation is that the vision bearer (Godfrey Nsubuga-social worker) was one of the many vulnerable children in Uganda who were raised by older women and men. He got concern about the hard life other older persons go through to raise their grandchildren in a resource constrained situation, and how their human rights are grossly violated across all sectors of public service accessibility and provision. CHO was developed in 2010 and started work in 2013 in Busukuma Division-Wakiso District, Uganda.
Our vision is to see a community where elderly people, Orphans and Vulnerable Children live free of poor health and a dignified life.
The group is driven by the mission to promote and protect the rights of older persons, and needy children under their care through humanitarian, social-research and advocacy efforts, and we envision to see a community where older persons, and needy children under their care live free of poor health and live a dignified life.
Areas of focus
• Community Development
• Economic empowerment and Development
• Education support for needy children
• Health/medical care support
• Volunteerism/Internship
• Social research and advoacy.
Activities:
• Home visiting (SALT approach) the bedridden older persons and Orphans and interact with them to address the consequences of isolation, stigma and discrimination, promote societal collective responsibility and community volunteerism in efforts to protect and promote the rights and entitlements.
• We mobilize community youth, school children and University students on internship once a year who volunteer their limited time to promote personal hygiene among older persons and environmental sanitation. Some of the activities carried out include health education on self-care, fetching water, cleaning compounds, washing clothes.
• Some older persons are so poor in that they cannot afford food and they sleep hungry. Having a single meal becomes a miracle to majority of them. Therefore we mobilize communities who collect food within the community and distribute it to older persons or even help them to cook. These are older persons who do not have caregivers or family relatives to support them.
• Once in awhile we mobilize health workers who reach out to the older persons, their Orphans and offer them free basic health care services.
• Orphans under the care of older persons and themselves lack warm clothing and bedding which exposes their health to coldness and mosquitoes. In this case we mobilize clothes which we distribute to them occasionally.
• Engage in national advoacy forums to influence government for the integration of older perosns issues in the Government planning, budgeting and implementation
• Community sentization, training and group formation.
Godfrey Nsubuga is the Founder, Team Leader and vision bearer of the Community Hive Organisation (CHO).
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.
