FOAG's Current Projects
Working with Children
Budaka Cheshire Home and Rehabilitation Centre - Aims to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities in a relatively poor agricultural area in Eastern Uganda.
Butiru Cheshire Home - Butiru Rehabilitation Cheshire Home is a non govermental organization run by the Sisters of Mary as a home for the rehabilitation of 40 - 60 disabled children. Children with physical disabilities are assessed through outreach clinics. Many of these are in need of operations. FOAG assists annually with the cost of operations.
St Francis Rehabilitation Centre - St Francis Centre finds children with various physical disabilities, in need of corrective surgery , arranges for their operations at local hospitals, mainly Kumi, and looks after them and their education including vocational training to enable them to be confident, useful members of their communities.
Masindi Centre for the Handicapped - Is a school of 117 pupils with a variety of handicaps. The emphasis is on education and vocational training so that re-integration into family and village life is a real possibility.
Kamurasi Primary School - Offers specialist education such a brail and sign language, vocational training to provide life enhancing skills and a standard curriculum based education. Kamurasi advocates integrated teaching with disabled children learning alongside the able bodied compatriots.
Mengo and Guluddene Units for Children with Leaning Difficulties - The Hospital's vision is to encourage each child in both the schools and clinic to develop as fully as possible – physically, emotionally, mentally, socially and spiritually.
Community Projects (People and Work)
Namalu agricultural extention project -Teaching the nomadic people of the Karamoja how to farm now they can no longer follow their nomadic history.
Namalu food security silo scheme - Helping a agricultural Ugandan community create a winter store for their grain so they can be more self sufficent. Click here for more.
Teso Oxen Re-stocking Project - To improve the agricultural production of the area by the re-introduction of oxen for draught ploughing and cultivations.
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Healthy People
Mengo and Guluddene units for children with learning difficulties - The hospital's vision is to encourange each child in both the schools and clinic to develop as fully as possible - Physically, emotionally, menatlly, socially and spiritually.
Kumi Hospital, Eastern Uganda - Kumi Hospital is a private not for profit 350 bedded hospital providing medical and surgical treatment for children and adults within a large rural area. FOAG provides financial support to suppliment staff salaries,fund fuel for the generator and purchase of vital medical equipment.
Dr Ambrose Memorial Health Centre - Although predominatly providing maternity care, the centre is also a welcoming haven for anyone unwell in the area addressing other diseases such as malaria, HIV and Thphiod.
Kiwoko Hospital - Funding Nurse training for the last 5 years.
Education
Butiru Cheshire Home, Tororo - This project offers short-term rehabilitation to children with disabilities and to provide orthopaedic appliances where necessary as well as to provide vocational courses.
Masindi Centre for the Handicapped -Is a school of 117 pupils with a variety of handicaps. The emphasis is on education and vocational training so that re-integration into family and village life is a real possibility.
Budaka Cheshire Home and Rehabilitation Centre - Aims to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities in a relatively poor agricultural area in Eastern Uganda.
Kamurasi Primary School - Offers specialist education such a brail and sign language, vocational training to provide life enhancing skills and a standard curriculum based education. Kamurasi advocates integrated teaching with disabled children learning alongside the able bodied compatriots.