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Name: Nakito Phiona
Age: 12yrs |
 » Vision
"A healthy and productive community" MISSION: Striving for the survival of Vulnerable Children/Humanity.
» Problem Statement
The population of Uganda is estimated now at 28 million and is projected to double by the year 2025 because of the high population growth rate of 3.4% per annum. The population is young with more than half below the age of 18 and only about 3.5% aged 60. A fifth of the population is below 5 years. According to the study conducted by Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, these households contain 7.4 persons compared with the 4.8 persons for other households without orphans. The average number of children in a house hold with orphans was 4.3 compared to 2.7 in a household without an orphan. The average number of orphans in the orphan household is estimated to be 1.6 (1) HIV/AIDS: It is estimated that there are 2 million orphaned children in Uganda. Despite the reported decline in HIV prevalence rate from 18.7% in the early 1990s to 5%; the AIDS related deaths have remained high due to limited access to ARAT (Anti-Retroviral Treatment) for the majority who are clinically eligible.
The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC). Estimated in 2001 that at least 800,000 people had died of AIDS in Uganda since its onset in 1983 and 600,000 were living with HIV /AIDS and approximately 10,000 were on anti-retroviral therapy. Thus even though the HIV prevalence rate has dropped, children will continue being orphaned far into the future unless further gains are made in reducing HIV prevalence and/ or expanding access to ART rapidly. » Poverty
About 38% of Uganda's population lives below the poverty line. The reliance on a peasant economy and inadequate income generating activities are the hallmarks of the poor majority in Uganda children under 18 years of age represent 62% of the population that live in absolute poverty. Since the population of Uganda is predominantly young this means that the larger proportions of children are vulnerable. High mortality from HIV/AIDS, malaria, other preventable diseases and conflicts in the country makes it more likely for the number of orphans and other vulnerable children living in absolute poverty to increase. Uganda communities have traditionally absorbed orphans within the extended family system. One in four households in Uganda foster at least one orphan by providing for health, shelter, nutrition, education and other needs. However, many of these care-givers are over-burdened and often lack the socio-economic capacity to provide adequate are and support for these children. Community organizations, religious bodies and other civil society members have stepped in by providing information, vocational skills training, basic education, medical care, and counseling and micro-credit services. These groups too, often lack the human and financial resources to adequately respond to the problem. Many children who are orphaned are forced to live on the streets or under exploitative conditions of labour, sexual abuse. Many live in child- headed households where they have to fend for themselves and support their younger siblings. Some of these children are infected with HIV either through mother-to- child transmission or through defilement.
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