HAU

The organisation

Hope Alive Uganda was established in 2008 as CBO in Uganda. In 2009, Hope Alive Uganda was registered officially in the Netherlands. Hope Alive Uganda operates in Kisozi, Kamuli district. Hope Alive Uganda supports orphans concerning education (school fees, school materials, school uniforms), runs an HIV/AIDS programme, sets up income generating activities and runs other health programmes to improve the circumstances of the community. Hope Alive Uganda also wishes to set up Hope Alive study centre.

Staff/board

Hope Alive Uganda is led by two directors, one in Uganda and one in the Netherlands. All in all, 10 people work for Hope Alive Uganda. Hope Alive Uganda has a board. Also, it has an HIV/AIDS trainer. Hope Alive Uganda also works with volunteers: students from the Worldschool have worked or are still working on producing materials concerning HIV/AIDS and malaria tasks which will be used by teachers and pupils at the schools in Kisozi, volunteers through the 1 % club have worked or are still working on tasks such as the building of the website (which is completed now), drafting a plan for setting up an ict centre (still running), a toys project for the children in Kisozi (which is completed now), fundraising (still running). Every now and then, Hope Alive Uganda also works with volunteers through Nabuur and UNV online volunteering service.

Activities

Hope Alive Uganda runs several projects in Kisozi:

goat project

38 orphans registered with Hope Alive Uganda have received a goat. The orphans can breed the goats and sell their offspring, as well as sell the milk. In this way, the orphans will be able to afford their school fees, school uniforms and school materials. The project can sustain, because the first female offspring is given back to Hope Alive Uganda which will then pass this one on to another orphan. 20 more goats will be handed out in september. The project is monitored by Hope Alive Uganda, which checks the conditions of the goats regularly.

chicken project

An income generating project started in March 2010. In this project, needy women and men will participate in order to improve their circumstances. Profits from the project will go to the men and women prarticipating in this project and to Hope Alive Uganda, through which new investments in other projects can be made. Eggs will be sold at the market.

crafts project

The crafts project is an income generating project for two women's groups in Buwenda and Kakindu, Jinja. By producing beads, necklaces and others crafts, women earn a small income which helps to sustain themselves. A market is created in the Netherlands (the Wereldmuseum, Afrikamuseum, Tropenmuseum and museum Volkenkunde support the women's groups) and the crafts are sold in a boutique in Nevada city, USA, thanks to volunteers working for Hope Alive Uganda through the 1 % club.

cycling-to-school project

The cycling-to-school project is an income generating project for the youth in Kisozi that can be conducted thanks to Cycling out of poverty, a Dutch organization, and includes a training programme, a repair shop for bicycles and students are given the opportunity to buy a bike on credit. The aim of the project is partly to reduce school drop outs by giving those students that need to come from very far to go to school the chance to buy a bike on credit. Cycling out of poverty and Hope Alive Uganda are working on an exchange program for students from Kisozi and students from the Netherlands.

tailoring project

The tailoring project is an income generating project for women. From April on 2010, 10 women receive a training in Hope Alive Uganda's tailoring studio in the centre of Kisozi and they will make school uniforms, clothes, curtains, blankets, sheets, bags, reusable pads for women/girls etc. and sell those. The women have already started making school uniforms.

sponsorship of orphans

In the Netherlands, fundraising activities take place to support orphans who can't afford to pay their school fees. Yet this is a programme that still needs to expand a lot more.

beds project

In the Netherlands, fundraising activities are held to buy beds, matrasses, blankets and sheets for those children that sleep on the ground. This is done through collecting the deposits on returnable bottles by a local supermarket and private funders. Until now, 14 children have received a bed, mattrass, blankets and sheets.

hiv/aids seminars/workshops

Hope Alive Uganda runs seminars/workshops concerning HIV/AIDS prevention and trains the youth from schools in Kisozi and its surroundings to be peer educators, who can then continue this at their schools. Also, Hope Alive Uganda holds seminars for the community itself. Hope Alive Uganda has the ambition to set up an aids information centre and cooperate in that with the local health centre. NCDO will support Hope Alive Uganda in 2010 - 2012 with this.

Borehole project

Hope Alive Uganda worked with GGNET to raise funds for the building of a borehole. This campaign ran throughout 2009-2010. Apart fromt he building of the borehole, Hope Alive Uganda has held a safe water campaign to teach the community about the importance of safe drinking water, hygiene, the hygienic use of latrines etc. Impulsis has funded one third of the costs of building the borehole and has become Hope Alive Uganda's support partner with Akvo. Hope Alive Uganda hopes to raise the remaining amount with Akvo to complete the fundraising for the building of the borehole.

Apart from these projects, Hope Alive Uganda has done several other things or will do numerous other things: it ran two – one in November 2009 and one in April 2010 – eyecamps through which more than 1200 people had their eyes checked by doctors and were given a free pair of glasses. Thanks to private funders, Hope Alive Uganda provided 240 orphans with a mosquito net in January 2010 and will provide another 66 orphans with a net in August 2010. About 1500 teddy bears/stuffed animals were collected by Dutch school children and were distributed to children in Kisozi, Uganda in April 2010. Hope Alive Uganda has plans to set up Hope Alive study centre. Furthermore, Hope Alive Uganda is partnering with Sharing Schools.

Partnerships

Hope Alive Uganda has established several partnership with other organisations, mainly Dutch organisations:

the 1 % club (Netherlands) → Hope Alive Uganda raises funds through the 1 % club for the goat and chicken project. Later this year, a vegetable project will be able to start thanks to funds raised through the 1 % club.

The 1 % club (international, office in Nairobi, Kenya) → Hope Alive Uganda will partner with the international branch of the 1 % club in order to raise fund for a project vehicle.

Cycling out of poverty → Hope Alive Uganda partners with the Dutch organisation to run the cycling-to-school project.

Share4more/Eureko Achmea → Hope Alive Uganda is able to run the tailoring project thanks to Share4more who funds this project.

GGNET → Hope Alive Uganda partners with GGNET in order to finance the building of a borehole. In October 2009, a water campaign was funded as well by GGNET.

Impulsis → Impulsis will be Hope Alive Uganda's support partner
in order to raise funds to complete the building of the borehole in 2010 - 2011.

NCDO → NCDO supports Hope Alive Uganda with their plans to build an AIDS info centre and to establish a structural training program in their hiv/aids program. Hope Alive Uganda will try and raise funds with the 1 % club when the new project comes online.

Smaller, short time projects could be done thanks to following funders:

Eyeclarify/CZ/Hans Anders → eyecamp,through which people were able to receive a free pair of glasses.

Africasport → supporting the local football team by donating new school uniforms, shoes and footballs.

C1000 → Thanks to this supermarket we can raise funds for the beds project.

Read to grow → Read to Grow has donated 777 reading and study books to Hope Alive Uganda

Biblionef → Biblionef has donated 134 reading books to Hope Alive Uganda