Mother’s Hand Care

1.0 Introduction

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MHC is a non-profitable community organization with intentions to change the motives of people in their ways of behaving towards everyone’s concern towards caring those who are vulnerable[cite: 76].

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MHC operates in Kito-Kirinya suburbs in Wakiso district one of the most populated district in Uganda[cite: 77]. It’s about 12km away from the capital city (Kampala).

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MHC involves the introduction, back ground, vision, mission, objectives, problem statement summary of all the challenges, situational analysis, study purposes, scope of the findings, SWOT analysis, stake holder’s analysis, methodology, core program areas, monitoring and evaluation, work plan, significances of the findings, project financial plans, organizational administrative structures and sketch map of the catchment area[cite: 78].

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MHC seeks to provide quality and sustainable services to the community and committed, HIV infected and affected children vulnerable or plans, street children, adolescents are the intentions to prioritize[cite: 79].

1.1 Background

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MHC was formed basing on the challenges faced by children when accessing education in Kito-Kirinya leading to school dropout[cite: 82]. This solid information gathering started from 2015 to manage school dropouts amongst the school age going and non- school going children. [cite_start]This was done by a teacher and other groups of people within Kito-Kirinya[cite: 83, 84].

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He obtained enough skills in human science, community development, guidance and counseling, human rights, child protection and social science[cite: 85]. This prominent profession shall lead to proper management while solving school life challenges within the vulnerable children in Kito-Kirinya. It also desires me to enrich children with Education access according to UN convention on the rights of a child (CRC) article 28 states that ‘’children have a right to go to school and article 29 promotes the ‘’rights of children to learn to be the best. [cite_start]These children without clear attention have rights to brighter future ahead of them, if given a chance to education[cite: 86].

To reach real people we need to volunteer to solve school dropouts. [cite_start]MHC seeks to provide quality and sustainable services to the community and committed to child headed families, Orphans, HIV infected and affected children, as well as adolescents are the intentions to prioritize in the struggle against school dropouts[cite: 87].

1.2 Organization Vision

To reach out to the vulnerable families, child headed families, HIV infected and affected children street children who drop out of the school and have no assistance.

1.3 Organization Mission

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To eliminate school dropouts, illiterates and improve on the child well-being through keeping them in school[cite: 88].

1.4 Study Purpose

To investigate the challenges which hinder school age going children when accessing education in Kito – Kirinya. And the surrounding areas.

1.5 Objectives

To transform and illiterates and in Kito – Kirinya community through education access so that we build strong children than repairing broken men.

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• To fill the gap of parenthood in child headed families so as they get a chance to a brighter future ahead of them[cite: 91].
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• To empower and support the community members in the fight against and response to HIV and AIDS as their children access Education in schools which increases on the counts’ productivity and social economic development[cite: 93].

1.6 Significance of the Findings

By investigating the challenges faced by children in accessing education, I hope that this solid information will be useful to the community, country and international. This will help the international to know the struggles which are gone through by the children in Kito – Kirinya accessing education facilities. [cite_start]The Findings and recommendation of this organization will help the well-wishers to help regarding on how the children can be helped[cite: 95]. [cite_start]This organization will solicit funds to the specific groups of people from donors so as to help children to have better life[cite: 96]. For scholars and academicians, the findings will provide unique support with local inputs and understanding the challenges faced by children in Kito – Kirinya while accessing academics. The supporters who will be interested in carrying out the input on the related challenges will find there production information.

1.7 Scope of the Findings

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The Findings intend to concentrate on the challenges faced by school age going children who dropout when accessing education in the community, therefore a kind heart is welcome to meet tuition for school age going children from vulnerable families and those heading the families[cite: 97].

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• Empower widows with new skills which may derive them out of poverty so as to live in an independent life in the challenging environment[cite: 99].

Provide the scholastic materials to the vulnerable children. Promote the prevention of the rampant spread of HIV / AIDS in the already infected and affected children.

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The following information below describes poverty rates, social and economic problems that face Kito-Kirinya. This is for the background purpose only and its education that may provide families with tools to escape poverty[cite: 100].

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The proposed program does directly target children education achievement, healthy families, crime substance and drug abuse prevention in adolescents, school dropouts and widow empowerments[cite: 101].

Financial problems

Poor families have problems in providing adequate clothes, scholastic materials, uniforms, bags and school fees support for all their children and sometimes require child labour in the field or in the house holds often to help with young siblings. [cite_start]MHC is to reduce school dropout and fees support to vulnerable and disadvantaged children[cite: 103].

Parents’ education example

Most parents of the children who dropout, come from a family where parents themselves did not spend more than seven years in schools as expected. Quite often children who drop out still hope to complete their studies to have at least 11 years of formal education to get qualification so that they don’t end up like their parents who are unskilled workers and have less chances of becoming successful in their lives.

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Siblings education examples are much more influential in families in which elder siblings have left school early often see young ones do the same[cite: 104].

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Dysfunctional Families bring material needs tribulation like divorce, alcoholism, defilement and domestic violence brought by perpetual drunkard parents this can presage dropouts[cite: 105].

Edge-of-law activities

Pretty jobs of money making through unskilled works like prostitution, membership of street gangs, house maids babysitting network almost always lead to child dropout of schools due to such attractions. These demotivating factors apply when a child is moving from low to high school level.

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Early marriage customs often terminate young girls from schools especially those in suburbs[cite: 106]. This comes as a result of teenage pregnancies and at a no cost children dropout of schools to follow in the run up to school dropout. This is why it could be useful if children who already dropped out are attached to people at a risk of doing so, as to share their current perspective. [cite_start]Having a child tends to be characteristics of certain communities rather a series of isolated incident, not only do girls who give birth typically come dysfunction, poor families but many of their peers doing the same thing[cite: 107].

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Lack of child security in the same communities in which teachers are afraid to interact with the parents because of high crime rate and lack of co-operation between teachers and parents can increase school dropout risks[cite: 108].

The customs of discontinuing education after seventh grade in one community which is relatively connected to urban communities declines their education saying that they don’t have classmates to continue with.

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Orphanism, it’s a rampant cause of school dropouts in the community due to loss of their parents who are at a greater death rate of HIV leaving only children[cite: 109]. [cite_start]Older orphans leave out of school to support families including their siblings, the rarely debated issues of school dropout in Kito-Kirinya requires immediate action[cite: 110]. [cite_start]It is a phenomenon so wide spread and so serious that it should be a priority[cite: 111].

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MHC has development the project efficient solutions to prevent school dropout costs and mechanism[cite: 112]. Therefore, the charity aims to offer support for strengthening the overall effort to solve the significant issues.

1.8 Summary of the challenges

Families which live in Kito – Kirinya face serious challenges such as;

A. Social factors

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Early pregnancies in adolescents [cite: 113][cite_start].
Orphanism [cite: 114][cite_start].
Illiteracy
Early marriages
Home based / community violence
Child headed families
HIV/AIDS infections and affection
Rape and defilement
Dysfunctional families
Drug abuse
Discontinued education
Ignorance of the parents and guardians
Parents’ education example
Lack of child security in the community[cite: 115].

B. Economic factors

Poverty
Edge of law activities
Unemployment
High prices of scholastic material
High tuition structures

The social factors are measured by illiteracy levels, lack of support from the families, ignorance of the parents and guardians, child headed families, rape and defilement, orphisms, drug abuse, early marriage and early pregnancy in the community. [cite_start]It’s also measure by economic factors i.e. poverty, high prices of scholastic materials, edge of law of activity, high tuition at various education levels and these make children fail to attend schools[cite: 116].

1.9 Situation analysis

This organization has been established to respond to the needs of many vulnerable children in Kito-Kirinya. Due to the fact 70% of the children need serious help and support, with this it is expected to double by 2030, if no hands come in, we shall loose important persons internally.

2.0 SWOT Analysis

Actions	Strength	Implication
– Working with other organizations that offer the same services. – Cooperation needed – Advocate for Funding.	– Presence of many clients to get the services – Team work – Many funders will support the organization.	– Increased demand for the available services in the organization. – Effective services delivered – Monitoring the workers and attract more clients to get involved.
Actions	Weakness	Implications
– Funds needed urgently to run the organization.	– Lack of resources to run the organization. – Poor data storage in the organization. – Donor dependants	– No activity so far done – Few materials have been given out. – Loss of date
Actions	Opportunity	Implication
– Maintain quality service deliverance in the organization.	– Enough man power available – Available clients	– Effective working – Team work – Easy expansion
Actions	Threats	Implications
– Support needed to the organization	– Un expected increased number of clients – Lack of storage devices – Poor transport and communication system	– Lack of funds in the organization – Loss of information

The Following are main directions to extend database to manage school dropouts.

2.1 Project Activities

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Provision of safe clean water, mosquito nets and dental care at the center [cite: 212][cite_start].
Provision of clothes beddings to orphans and vulnerable children identified within the operational area.
Create awareness about new approaches to solve HIV / AIDS spread, ignorance and illiterate development within the community through education.
Identification of the need for legal children protection [cite: 214][cite_start].
Sensitization of children and their guardians about their rights [cite: 215][cite_start].
Referral for support to those whose rights are violated [cite: 216][cite_start].
Support given to child headed families and malnourished children through,
Pre-assessment of food supply to households [cite: 218][cite_start].
Supplementary feeding to infected and affected individual with HIV and AIDS[cite: 219].
Nutrition counseling in families under malnutrition.
Post monitoring of food receipts and home visits.
Supporting access to basic education

2.2 Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring the progress and evaluation are key results of management functions in organization; To provide the compressive coverage needed for the growth of the organization, review, trouble shoots and other management tasks will be employed to track the main types of indicators that impact performance. [cite_start]This will be selected based on the overall strategic approaches to serve and respect the organization implante [cite: 223]d.

2.3 Project Financial Plan

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The service will be typical operation plan approach in the implementation of programs thrusts[cite: 224]. [cite_start]In this case operational plan will be developed based on identified thrusts of the organization and it will define issues like major development needs to be addressed in the project, learning and knowledge management frame works for the programs to sustainably engage and impact-oriented interactions that meet the needs on the project and add value to it, management of the project will deliver results, coast implication of the project[cite: 225]. [cite_start]This approach will be used to build transparency accountability, relevance and result oriented intervention and will also attract funding[cite: 226].

2.4 Stake Holders Analysis

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The organization deal with many stake holders who are primary and secondary[cite: 228]. [cite_start]Beneficiaries in the catchment area[cite: 229]. [cite_start]Through understanding and identifying those who have the right interest, skills and abilities that can build up the organization[cite: 230]. [cite_start]The primary beneficiaries are those who are affected directly like the orphans, Children and mother infected and affected with HIV/AIDS, family headed children[cite: 231]. [cite_start]The secondary beneficiaries will include the schools and the too poor people in the community according to the information collected[cite: 232].

2.5 Methodology

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Essential achievement of the organization objectives shall be done using morbidity, questionnaires, home visits reach out, demographic data, and health related promotion and other activities that are projected using demographic data accessibility and issued data from the local authority level and survey that are available at a time[cite: 233, 234]. [cite_start]The organization will give technical assistance through consultants to determine other methods[cite: 235].

2.6.0 The 5 major core program areas to help children and adolescents to meet their basic needs and create an independent environment.

1. Support access to basic education
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2. Health care [cite: 238]
3. Legal child protection support
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4. Food and nutrition support [cite: 239]
5. Psychological support

2.6.1 Supporting access to basic education.

This is done to notice and attend to the school age going children through;

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• Tuition support for children in primary, Secondary, institutions and universities[cite: 242].
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• Scholastic materials such as books, pens, shoes, toilet tissues, rulers, lets bags and uniform provision to children in school[cite: 243].
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• School follow ups visits to monitor performance in class [cite: 244]
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• Home visits to access domestic wellbeing to improve academic process [cite: 246]

2.7 Administration Structure

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2.8 Reference

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1. Green A. (1999) An introduction to health planning in developing countries Oxford University Press[cite: 277].
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2. Nkya E. (2000) public-private sector partnership and institutional frame work Makerere University Kampala Uganda[cite: 280].
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3. Kiiza, J(2007).Development Nationalism and economic performance in Africa; [cite: 282, 283] A Comparative Analysis of Mauritius, Botswana and Uganda
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4. Un agency (2002) department of public information[cite: 285].
5. Kiiza, Mubaza, J. And Nansiima. [cite_start]A. (2006) development ideology, research and policy making in Uganda, a research report written for global development network and economic education research consortium[cite: 287, 288].
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6. Ministry of Health (2005) health sector strategic plan 2000/2001/2004/2005 Kampala, Uganda[cite: 290].
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7. Ministry of health (2005) health sector strategic plan 2004/2005/2009/2010, Kampala Uganda[cite: 292].

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If we want to research real people in this world we should start educating children[cite: 293].

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