Child Care and Youth Empowerment Foundation (CCAYEF)

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Child Care and Youth Empowerment Foundation (CCAYEF) is an indigenous non-profit making, non-governmental, community based, charitable organization. based in Mukono, Uganda, that focuses on preventing school dropouts for girls and rehabilitating teenage mothers through counselling, life-skills, reintegration into formal education, and vocational trainings.
CCAYEF is an NGO established in 2008; operating in Mukono, Buvuma, Buikwe, Kayunga, under 4 thematic areas; Child Protection, Socio-Economic Empowerment, Health/WASH.

As a charitable Organization, CCAYEF was inspired by the large incidences of child marriages and early pregnancies leading to early parenthood; and large numbers of children who were not well catered for by any adult figure.
Furthermore, CCAYEF’s motivation is premised on the over-growing survival needs of youth, children and their families brought about by chronic low production levels among the youth who not only lack production assets like life skills, but are also psychologically and physically immature to respond to economic challenges of the time.
These are also the same groups that are prone to child abuse and neglect; child labour, sexual abuse, dropping out from school, sexual violence and many other forms of violation. On the other hand, majority of them are out of school, they are engaged in small subsistence activities or dependent on equally non-responsive adults for survival.

Vision: CCAYEF envisions a world of well nurtured children, empowered youths, and communities committed to social justice and peace.

Mission: Improving the well-being of vulnerable children and youth through education, socio-economic interventions, nutrition and health care.

Goal
To deliver high impact, cost effective interventions such as to enable children and youth torealize their full growth and development potential

Activities:
• We currently facilitate 4 Peer Health Clubs at local secondary schools where we teach life skills and health to members who then distribute the information to their peers. Within this project we hold HCT outreaches, provide health talks at schools and have built a youth corner at the Kimenyedde Health Center
• Under maternal and child health, we work primarily with teenage mothers. Every other week we hold teen classes where the teens come to a life skills class and get to meet the other girls as a support group. The girls are able to choose hairdressing or jewelry-making as a vocational skill and we train them so that they can earn money for themselves and their babies.

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.