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ANNUAL REPORT 2013

RAFFORD UGANDA,Next to Buikwe Town council offices,

Buikwe Town-Mobile: +256785729567

Email 1: [email protected]

Email 2: [email protected]

Buikwe Town Council


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Table of Contents

ACRONYMNS.......................................................................................................................................................... 2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................... 3

WELCOME REMARKS-COORDINATOR. .................................................................................................................. 4

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 5

2.0 ABOUT RAFFORD UGANDA .............................................................................................................................. 6

2.0.1 OUR VISION................................................................................................................................................... 6

2.0.2 MISSION STATEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 6

2.0.3 OUR OBJECTIVE ............................................................................................................................................. 6

3.0 PROGRAMS ...................................................................................................................................................... 6

3.0.1 FAMILY SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................................... 6

3.1.2 Children received second hand clothes and exercise books ........................................................................ 8

3.1.3 Education support ........................................................................................................................................ 9

4.0 FUNDRAISING .................................................................................................................................................. 9

4.0.1 Fundraising dinner to raise funds for OVCs .................................................................................................. 9

5.0 Information Dissemination ............................................................................................................................ 10

6.0 WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IN 2014 ........................................................................................................ 11


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ACRONYMNS

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromeART Anti Retroviral TherapyCNE Continuous Nursing EducationCSF Civil Society Basket FundingFP Family Planning

HIV Human Immune VirusMOH Ministry of HealthMRS Medical Records SystemOVC Orphan and Vulnerable ChildrenPCT Prevention Care and TreatmentPLHAs People Living with HIV/AIDSSTI Sexually Transmitted InfectionTB TuberculosisWHO World Health Organisation


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

RAFFORD Uganda expresses its deep gratitude to its partners and well wishers for their

continued support, guidance and encouragement to our programs and community for the

year 2013.

RAFFORD also thanks the secretariat, Board of Directors, the membership and the

publ ic for the ir inp ut and con tribution towards upl ifti ng th e health cond it ions fo r

Orphans and Other Vulnerable children through the country.

In an exceptional way we thank Ms. Juta Weber and the entire Bambisana group of

Germany, the leadership of Buikwe district local government, and the leaders in the

respective sub counties where RAFFOD operates for their continued support towardsRAFFORD. The aforementioned stakeholders have not only nurtured RAFFORD but

have also been consistent in their support to RAFFORDs numerous interventions over

the years.


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WELCOME REMARKS-COORDINATOR.

Greetings from Rafford Uganda.

Yet another year of success!

We thank you all our supporters for keeping hope alive. We have

had a wonderful journey since 2012 when Rafford registered as a

community based organization and surely amidst challenges we

have kept strong and focuses to the mission.

A number of activities have been implemented since January 2013 to December 2013 however

another set of activities were not been implemented basically due to financial challenges. We

would like to thank the helping hands of all of you who gave in your clothes, money, vegetable

seed and also those who turned up for our fundraising events.

In a special way we thank Hon. Dorothy Mpiima M.P Buikwe District (Maama Buikwe) who

accepted our invitation and became our chief guest and the financial support you gave on our

fundraising dinner under the theme:Building the future with Todays Children .During that day

we had an interactive session on strategy formulation and those who gave us ideas on how to

redefine our strategy we thank you so very much and we believe that growth is a journey that

involves change that is why we are looking forward to redefining our strategy and approach come

2014 for the betterment of the children.

We thank the parents and guardians of the little children under Rafford for your unending support,

care, counseling of the children reminding them to take their medication as prescribed and taking

them for scheduled medical check ups .Indeed you are one and the same with our motto Hope

never drys!

To all Rafford staff and management thank you for putting in all the effort regardless of little or

no rewards but I believe its worthwhile and actually more rewarding to support children secure

their future than to get paid. Mary, Asher and Ivan Youre indeed a team to identify with.

I Wish you all a prosperous 2014 and whenever you are called upon please join us in the

fundraising events, campaigns, call for donations, sponsoring the children in whichever way you

can, financial support to equip the secretariat. God will richly bless you.

Sarah Akampurira.

Rafford Co-ordinator.

My Humble Appeal to you all please Support our 2014 initiatives!

1. Keep a child warm. Donate a blanket!

2. We did write our notes and here we are to support you writeyour future.


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1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We are pleased to welcome you to the 2013 RAFFORD Annual report, a compilation of

our tremendous success, and activities during the year, as well as our plans for a

healthier country in 2013. The theme for this years report is strengthening families andbu ild ing cap acity for a healthier country.

2013 has been a remarkable year for RAFFORD and her partners, as well as the

communities we serve through training, community sensitization, basic nutrition, among

others. We are grateful to our partners, for enabling RAFFORD to harness intellectual

inputs from so many sources, through your generosity.

We are grateful to all our partners with whom we could not have achieved so much.

However, we remain cognizant of the public health challenge that cripples many

Orphans, other vulnerable children, as well as well as their care givers.

Our hope is to invest extra effort in our working relationships with our partners to

enhance public health capacity in remote rural areas.

As you leaf through the pages of this report, you will learn more about the activities of

our programs and projects in 2013. Herein, you will also get a preview into RAFFORDs

pl ans fo r 2014, whos e accompl ishment rel ie s on your support.

Thank you for being part of RAFFORD in 2013, and we are thrilled to continue working

with you in the coming year.

We wish you a happy and productive 2014


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2.0 ABOUT RAFFORD UGANDA

RAFFORD UGANDA is a Community based not for profit, non-religious, Non-Government

Organization (NGO) with the general objective of improving the life of rural communities

through training, and provision of essential services, the necessary care and support fororphans and vulnerable children .

2.0.1 OUR VISION: An empowered community with knowledge and skills to fostersustainable development of Orphans and other Vulnerable Children, and other People Living

with HIV/AIDS.

2.0.2 MISSION STATEMENT : To contribute to Health improvement and preventHIV/AIDS among affected Orphans and Vulnerable Children by empowering rural

communities in Uganda through training, research and life skills to improve their wellbeing,

through;

Situational prevention of HIV/AIDS

Social prevention and community empowerment

Research and documentation

Communication and information sharing

Advocacy and Networking

2.0.3 OUR OBJECTIVE: To empower rural communities to work towards theattainment of a modest standard of living for Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Other People

Living With HIV/AIDS.

We have a very strong and enthusiastic staff, who a professional willing and able to take on

the project to successful and will be grateful to receive financial assistance to support us

achieve the mission.

3.0 PROGRAMS

3.0.1 FAMILY SUPPORT

Rafford Uganda believes that children need to have a balanced diet and a diet is never complete

without vegetables at each meal. With the children that we currently work with its more

important to support the guardians to have and access vegetables that are rich in vitamin A to

boost the childrens immunity. Through our partnership with the Bambisa Group in Germany we

received a number of vegetable seed ranging from carrots to Beetroot and the families benefited,

planted and children enjoyed the harvest. The harvest was greatly affected by too much sunshine


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during that season.

The guardians were trained in the importance of backyard gardening specifically for vegetables to

support family food intake.

Guardians and chi ldr en duri ng the session ready to receive vegetable seed. Program off icer registering the benefi ciar ies

TABLE1: LI ST OF VEGETABLE SEED BENEF ICIARIES

NO NAME OF GUARDIAN VEGETABLE

TYPE

NO OF

PACKETS

1. Galiwango Tomatoes

Onions

Beetroot

1

1

1

2. Ziwa George CabbageGreen onion

Beetroot

Carrot

11

1

1

3. Noor Nayibira Pumpkins

Green onion

Beetroot

1

1

1

4. Naigaga Florence Carrots

Onions

Cabbage

1

1

1

5. Nambatya Florence Pumpkin

Green onion

Beetroot

1

1

1

6. Musoke Albert Beetroot 2

7. Maama Weigonda Beetroot 1


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Green onion

Tomatoes

2

1

8. Salongo Lukwago Beetroot

Carrot

1

2

9. Nanzri Florence Beetroot

Carrots

1

1

10. Maama Ema Beetroot

Carrots

1

1

11. Nyanfuma Ruth Tomatoes

Beetroot

Green onion

1

2

1

12. Mutesi Faridah Beetroot

Cabbage

1

1

13. Kasanga Paul Beetroot

Kohlrabi-Brassica

gongylodes.

French beans

2

2

1

14. Asher-Rafford Volunteer French beans

Beetroot

Carrots

1

1

1

3.1.2 Children received second hand clothes and exercise books

Rafford staff through friends of Rafford and well-wishers, we managed to mobilize and received

some clothes to give to the children through it was unfortunate that most of the clothes were of a

bigger size and couldnt fit most of our 3-8children. We thank you all for the support you rendered

and look forward to your generous giving especially in our new campaigns 2014 of Keep a child

warm. Donate a blanket.


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Program Of fi cer distri buting the clothes to children and their guardians

3.1.3 Education support

Each child received 6 exercise books, a pen and a pencil to support them as they pursue their

education for both in primary and even those in secondary schools. We believe that no matter what

our status is education is for everyone and we endeavor to do everything possible to support our

children. We look forward to increase support to these children through our fundraising campaigns

come 2014, we have the campaign under the slogan; we did write our notes and here we are to

support you write your future.

4.0 FUNDRAISING

4.0.1 Fundraising dinner to raise funds for OVCs

In an effort to redefine and improve our approach, RAFFORD held a fundraising dinner on Friday

April 2013, under the theme Building the future with TodaysChildren that will provide a unique

opportunity for RAFFORD as an organization to raise funds for OVCs in Najja Sub County Buikwe

district.

The purpose of the Gala Dinner was to raise funds for the various RAFFORD projects among which

include the OVC project in Najja Sub County, and also increase the visibility of RAFFORD as an

organisation by demonstrating the current initiatives being undertaken by the organization in theBuikwe district.

The diner took place at Seascalop Restaurant in Kampala and was highly attended by representatives

from Government departments, including Members of Parliament, representatives from Civil Society

Organisations, Non-Government Organisations, Health practitioners, the media and the youth.

The gala also involved the sale of assortment items among these were RAFFORD branded IEC

materials like wall clocks, T-shirts, Wallets, key holders among other promotional items.

We also have a number of project proposals looking forward to sharing them with the would be

supporters.

We also look forward to having well-wishers to sponsor the children especially those in secondary


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The clock is ticking we should not loose war against

HIV/AIDS in children.

Let us support children to achieve their full lifes

potential

schools and also the young ones this can be even beyond giving financial support to counseling, a

decent meal, celebrating Easter or Christmas with a difference.

Some of the I ECs auctioned during the fundrai sing [branded wall clock and Wallet]

NOTE: we still have a number of assorted items on sale the beautiful wallets (for both Ladies and

Gentlemen each at 20,000ug shs), t-shirts at 20.000ugshs, Wall clocks at 50,000ug shs support

Rafford to reach out to the vulnerable children. Who wouldnt want to have a wall clock that

communicates not only by informing you on time but also with a message that states your endless

support to eradicate HIV/AIDS in children.

5.0 Information Dissemination

We have a weblog:http://rafforduganda.blogspot.com/p/our-target.html and we constantly update it

with new information the Rafford deems necessary to share with the public, it is user friendly and we

very much appreciate your contributions and value feedback greatly. Please feel free to visit and write

a comment. As a young organisation interested in growth we value feedback a lot.

We embrace networking and social media keeps us in-touch with you, we have therefore managed to

set up a Facebook Group and Page: RAFFORD UGANDA and thanks all that have accepted our

invitation we look forward to reaching a thousand as we work together to support children infected
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and affected by HIV/AIDS and other OVCs in Uganda. Invite your friends too to join our page.

6.0 WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IN 2014

As an evolving organization we still have a long way to go though still facing funding constraints.

1. Strengthen the secretariat with the essentials like a computer, printer, copier/scan/fax to enable

smooth running data entry and management.

2. Get funds to support the orphans and vulnerable children to continue in school and access

health care, family food intake-Nutritional value.

3. Education on child nutritionandbasic nutrition for the family.

4. Secure all the HIV testing equipments and ARVs for the infected children.

5. Expand sensitization on HIV/AIDS to schools- primary and secondary in Buikwe district.

6. Secure institutional grant for staff salaries, organization car or motorcycle and administrative

expenses.

7. Secure blankets for children under the theme: We look at the projection of raising 40 blankets

for the children to help them enjoy their night sleep in 2014. Please join and support the

initiative.

8. Education is the future and together we can support the children to secure their future. We

intend to continue supporting children with back to school materials such as exercise books

and this time targeting a dozen per child that make it 30 dozens per term and 90 dozens for a

full year Plus pens and pencils. Campaign slogan is: we did write our notes and herewe are

to supportyou write your future.

Keep a child warm.

Donate a blanket!

We did write our notes and here we are to supportyou write your future


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8.0 STAFF PICTORIAL AND REMARKS

Sarah AkampuriraCoordinator

Arrikod Ivan Programs Manager

Mary Nabukenya Program OffChildren Affairs

hank u all oursupporters

Supporting the children is

my number one priority.

Together we can restore

HOPE to OVCs


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OUR CONTACTS

Next to Buikwe Town council offices,

Buikwe Town-Uganda

Mobile: +256785729567

Email 1:[email protected]

Email 2:[email protected]

Physical Address: Lubanyi village, ward A.

BuikweTown Council

Website:[email protected]

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