Note: The menu shows the 36 African countries where Africare has worked, not the other African countries.

 


(Sheila McKinnon photo)

Uganda

Africare first assisted Uganda from 1979 to 1981, a period of relative peace, with medical and agricultural aid. Africare returned to Uganda in 1996, with three major programs. The first, in the Kabarole and Kasese districts, resettled and retrained about 1,000 demobilized military personnel. The second was a major food-security project that ultimately has spanned hundreds of villages in the Kabale, Kanungu, Kisoro, Ntungamo and Rukungiri districts. The third was a child survival program that focuses on the integrated management of childhood illnesses, while incorporating water resource development, vegetable gardening and HIV prevention. Additional programs in areas ranging from AIDS orphan assistance to natural resource management have followed.

Current Africare assistance to Uganda:

  • Food production
  • Food security
  • Water resource development
  • Environmental conservation
  • Rural infrastructure development
  • HIV prevention
  • Care for people living with HIV or AIDS
  • Assistance to AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children
  • Scholarships for AIDS orphans
  • Child survival
  • Malaria control
  • Water sanitation
  • Assistance to internally displaced persons

           

(Updated, Dec. 18, 2007)