Looking back in the year 2008-2011, the level of literacy was very low in Lwengo community and this was evidenced by few schools, poor performance of schools, low teacher to pupil ratio in classes, few educated individuals, many children out of school. This pushed the founder to find better ways of improving literacy of this community and thus came up with the idea starting up a central institution, a child development and learning centre to support all children no matter the level of vulnerability. This started as impossible but with many hands and much faith it’s now standing as big and growing Lwerudeso Primary School that has grown from shades to buildings and increased in numbers every year.  Every year the school registers over 500 children that most of these are orphans and others from vulnerable families. A change is already being realised for some children have graduated from primary to secondary, technical and others are working already.

Results from National Learning assessment report that was read last year 2018, it found out that Lwengo had 34.9% children who are in school and are learning higher than a national figure that was 32.1% which shows a big improvement though much is needed in the education sector.

As a double sustainability strategy, the school will keep providing a service to every child and also earns some income to run its own activities. Parents contribute a fair and affordable fee to keep this project standing.

Our school is undergoing expansion to have more classrooms and dormitories for improved service delivery.

HEALTH CENTRE PROJECT

in charge Lwerudeso Health Centre

doctor Lubega Samuel

The project

In a fight to improve accessibility and quality of health care services, we transformed from seeking for services to provision of service. Due to high rates of deaths, people dying of HIV/AIDS minus treatment, limited access to the few health centres due to long distances, not enough drugs in the available health centre, few health workers and lack of community health mobilisation increased health risks and deaths. People needed all these services but it was not easy to access them without any support. Lwerudeso working with the local government started its journey of saving people’s lives by setting up health camps with activities that included HIV/AIDS counselling, testing and referral, training village health teams to continue with health education even at a lower level. People actively participated, got treatment, others were referred for further treatment. Health information and education was given but even though this was done, at a certain point it meant that activities would seize because all these activities to take place there had to be lobbying for funds and support from other organisations like PACE, World Vision, Civil Society Fund and others to fund them that had to phase out after.

Research shows that in Uganda less than 50% of the population attend to government health centres whereas up to 60% people get health care services from private facilities meaning there is still a gap in the health system. On ground, in Lwengo district there are still people dying of HIV/AIDS, non-communicable diseases, giving birth in villages has increased maternal deaths. This is because there are very long distances to the one few government health centres that are always full of patients with insufficient drugs and slow service delivery. At a village level there is no nearby health facility to help the needy, the school children cannot walk long distances thus have to stay home until they get fine and go back to school and for those who were worse, Lwerudeso had to treat them from bigger hospitals in Masaka and Kampala which was so much costly.

Realising such and more other challenges, Lwerudeso in its long strategic plan included a health centre that would help solve some of these health needs.

TREE PROJECT

The weather is radically changing; rainy seasons have changed creating much drought leading to a drop in agricultural harvest thus leading to rampant hunger. This is attributed to poor environmental conservation measures and much environmental degradation. The project has an environmental conservation program to help on such that at the same time earns income and saves the ‘would be’ expenses for the organization. Currently trees especially eucalyptus create a nice canopy that helps keep the ground cool and favours rainfall formation. This project also provides youth with maintenance activities on a pay, firewood to the school, and income to the organisation. The target is to have 500,000 trees and out of these at least 250,000 trees have been planted for the above purpose.

In 2020 we earned five million Uganda shillings from the tree project and this will increase with time. However, we invest much for planting, weeding and pruning.

SACCO PROJECT

1. Promote a spirit of saving among members by offering them an opportunity to accumlate savings and earn interest.
2. Create a source of funds from which members can access loans for productive and developmental purposes at fair predetermined interest rates.
3. Encourage collective investment for the economic empowerment of the members. The general strategy is by encouraging member pool their financial resources for gainful investment, advance loans to members.

This project will provide opportunity to both young children and the old people.

PIGGERY PROJECT

Our target is ensuring that all sponsored families receive piglets, rear them, reproduce, sell and we save the money for the future support of the children.

We hope that when they start producing, the project will avail all the necessary support to the families for the success of this project.

Parents access the demonstration and multiplication Centre where they attain good knowledge and skills about: Shelter construction, animal feeding and Treatment, Animal breeding (multiplication) and marketing among others at a free cost.

GOAT PROJECT