Bayira Rural Women's Development Association (BARWODA)
Kajwenge Trading Centre; P.O. BOX 132
Kisinga, Bukonjo, Kasese
Uganda
Contact person: Jonesi Muhindo
+256-782-368040; +256-706-368040
barwoda2005@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/BayiraRuralWomensDevelopmentAssociationbarwoda/
Topics
- Aid organization
- Educational policy/project
- Social policy/disabled persons
About us
Bayira Rural Women's Development Association (BARWODA) is a community based Women organization that is located in Kisinga Sub-county, Bukonzo, Kasese district, western Uganda. The group was founded in the year 1998 by 5 women for the promotion of community development in the area. It was seen that women are economically poor and suffer all sorts of exploitation.
Bayira Rural Women's Development Association - BARWODA is a local grass root community Based Organization engaged in programmes or activities intended to empower women to realize social economic and cultural development.
BARWODA aims to have an effect on the eradication of poverty, the control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, education for all, health care for all and people to have the power to decide over their own destinies, BARWODA is a non-political, non religious organization and non profit making.
Mission
To empower the rural women in Kasese district through education and engaging them in income generating projects for poverty alleviation in their homestead and uplifting their standards of living for a healthy women community.
Vision
BARWODA envisaged a knowledgeable and skilled women community in Kasese. District through education that can pass ideas and influence decisions for women developed community.
Aims and Objectives
• To inspire women to initiate projects which are directed towards elimination of poverty, unemployment, disease, hunger and illiteracy
• To motivate disadvantaged and marginalized rural poor women to take full participation in programmes that enable them to realize their rights and dignity in the society.
• To promote programmes which involve women in the struggle to conserve the environment, thereby realizing sustainable human Development.
• To strengthen gender-based methodologies that address women to avert the feminization of poverty.
Activities:
• Technical Education: We have a programme of typing, and 40 have qualified and finished the course. They are on self-employment in various parts of Kasese district. More to that tailoring is been going on and 14 women have finished this course.
• Adult Literacy: Adult literacy campaign is going ahead. Most of the women have known how to read and write. We praise our teachers who have sacrificed their time in teaching the women in voluntary basis through this programme.
• Human Rights: We trained paralegals to do domestic violence prevention measures in Lake-Katwe Sub-County with funding from the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) based in Accra-Ghana
• Environmental Conservation: We plan to grow trees in Kahokya. The climatic conditions in Kahokya village, Kahokya parish, Lake-Katwe sub-county are temperate grassland. There is need to conserve environment and combined efforts is required to conserve the environment. All these are from the members' contributions. We have started growing mangoes that are improved through grafting method. They are now yielding fruits.
• Health: BARWODA is carrying out community health with the village development council in Kahokya village and the parish development committee of Kahokya. This is done fourth the whole year. The purpose of this programme looks at personal hygiene and sanitation at household level. There has been counselling among the children with difficult circumstances in Kisinga and Lake-Katwe sub-counties. We have also established MaliMali Medical Centre-Kyarumba carrying both out and in patient activities. The main purpose of the Center is to offer affordable medical care and preventative services to the poor people in Kyarumba, a rural area in the center of Africa. It will offer comprehensive services for physical, mental and spiritual healing, so that the people may have a better life. It offers a wide range of health services. It has an Out-patient Department for general medical care, and In-patient Department, Dental care services, Eye care services,
• Children With Difficult Circumstances (CDC): BARWODA through mass mobilisation and sensitisation has helped 75 children with difficult circumstances (CDC) go to school. It has supplied books, pens and second clothes to the 75 children. It has also met their fees charges at government primary schools with Universal Primary Education programmes.
• Livestock: BARWODA has had funding from Marie Schlei Verein - Germany, Oxted one world group 1% Fund New York and the international Christian service for Africa to implement beekeeping and piggery projects. Under this project, 90 members have been trained in the project management and equipped with the inputs for the project. So many pigs have been supplied by the group to the members.
Jonesi Muhindo is the Chairperson of Bayira Rural Women's Development Association (BARWODA).
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