Uganda | Fundacja HumanDOC

Uganda. Support for the Shelter for Women and Children

maciej — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000

HumanDoc Foundation, using its extensive and long experience in running shelters for people experiencing domestic violence in Georgia, decided to support WORI Organization from Uganda in its efforts. On the one hand, we share with them our experience, on the other, we help them raise the necessary funds.

Why are we supporting WORI shelter in Uganda?

Still more than half of society in Uganda, including women themselves, think that women should just “quietly” endure domestic violence, for the sake of the whole family and community.

Luckily, the social awareness is growing, thanks to which there are more and more places, where people experiencing violence can turn for help. Unfortunately, all of that is happening too slowly. We have to be aware that there are only six shelters of this kind in the whole country – it’s less than in any Polish provincial capital. This is why Rose, Annet and Rebecca, three women from a small village in eastern Uganda, decided to build a shelter for women and children who need help.

The construction took ten years. But today the shelter can accommodate thirty women and twenty children. All residents of this place not only have here a safe shelter, but also food, legal and psychological support.

Women organize a wide range of trainings to teach beneficiaries about their rights and to educate them, so that they can earn their living in the future. – WORI’s efforts result from questioning the traditional culture and the way of raising women in Uganda, were the patriarchal society makes women and girls less import and deprived of some privileges, on the contrary to men – says Rose Kiger, one of the founders of the organization.

These actions cost a lot and WORI needs our support. The more so that just 30 PLN are enough to ensure daily meals for EVERY resident of the shelter.

collected for the support of the shelter for women and children in Uganda

can use the support of the WORI shelter at the same time. Today, there are 14 women and 12 children.

necessary things. The funds we raised were used to buy new beds, mattresses and bed sheets.

HumanDoc Foundation conducted a collection of money to support WORI. Together with our friends, Warsaw Club Plan B and Economics School Complex in Słupca, we managed to collect 6 737 PLN in a few weeks.

We sent this money to WORI and thanks to this contribution there are 8 new beds, 8 mattresses, 16 sets of sheets, 8 blankets, 8 mosquito nets (to protect the residents of the shelter from malaria).

We purchased also curtains to all eight bedrooms and kitchen equipment. We used the funds to install CCTV cameras, which we received last year, in order to improve the security in the shelter.

Rose Kigere

WORI Founder

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Media against xenophobia

maciej — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:45:00 +0000

Projekt Fundacji HumanDoc – „Media przeciwko ksenofobii” zakłada budowanie pozytywnych narracji i przeciwdziałanie stereotypom wokół trwającego od kilku lat kryzysu imigracyjnego w Europie.

Projekt kładzie nacisk na ukazywanie złożoności zjawisk stojących u źródeł tego kryzysu wykorzystując format reportażu telewizyjnego jako narzędzia edukacyjnego.

Nowy projekt koresponduje z wcześniejszymi działaniami Fundacji HumanDoc w obszarze globalnej edukacji i budowania świadomości społecznej.

Od 2013 roku we współpracy z TV Polsat News 2 i jej dziennikarzami– Janem Mikrutą i Pawłem Naruszewiczem współprodukowaliśmy cykl reportaży prezentujących przykłady globalnych problemów współczesnego świata oraz ich konsekwencji dla codziennego życia ludności wielu regionów naszej planety.

Kwestie poruszane w cyklu “To Był Dzień Na Świecie” to m.in. ocieplenie klimatu, brak czystej wody, nienadążanie powstawania nowych miejsc pracy za przyrostem ludności, zawinione przez człowieka katastrofy ekologiczne, wędrówki ludności z południa na północ wywołane nędzą. We wszystkich reportażach pokazywane są działania podejmowane przez człowieka, których celem jest minimalizowanie zagrożeń. Nie ma jednak pewności, czy ostatecznie przyniosą one znaczący pozytywny skutek.

Pierwszy cykl miał swoją emisję w 2013 roku, drugi w 2015 roku, a trzeci w 2016 roku. Cykl emitowany był raz w tygodniu a jego rozszerzeniem była dyskusja w studio na antenie programu “To Był Dzień Na Świecie” w telewizji Polsat News 2 (PN2), moderowana przez redaktora Grzegorza Dobieckiego. Dodatkowo każdy odcinek cyklu był co najmniej dwukrotnie powtarzany na antenach grupy Polsat: np. Polsat News, Ipla TV oraz umieszczony na stałe w Internecie na stronie polsatnews.pl.

Zaprezentowane reportaże powstały przy współpracy Polsat News z Fundacją HumanDoc w ramach projektu współfinansowanego ze środków programu polska pomoc Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych. Wszystkie reportaże są dostępne także na internetowym kanale Polska Pomoc oraz na internetowym kanale Polsat News.

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So that children are not hungry and could learn better

maciej — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Does your child have lunch at school? Not all children have such luck, e.g. children from a small village in Uganda, Kisoso. There was nothing to cook their lunch from. Until now. Thanks to the school garden, children can receive a meal at school. With full stomachs it will be easier for them to focus on learning.

Education is the key to everything. To better future. Growing plants is the basis of life. What is the connection between education and agriculture? The answer is simple: where there is not enough crops, there is hunger, the inherent companion of poverty, while poverty leads to poor education.

Unfortunately, still in some countries there are no systemic solutions, neither on economic, nor on social level. In Uganda there is not enough of effective agriculture or of money to feed hungry children. There is not enough of comprehensive policy focused on children protection. This is why the group of “street children”, who are unable to become independent and function normally in the society, keeps getting bigger.

HumanDoc Foundation decided to change this situation in one of Ugandan villages. Thanks to some private donors, we managed to raise money for a school garden for children from disadvantaged families. For the funds we collected, we bought a drip irrigation system, seedlings, seeds and tools.

In cooperation with Make a Change Foundation, we sent to school in Masaka district four volunteers, who trained the local community in building drip irrigation systems. These are very simple systems, which can be made even from plastic bottles, but thanks to these systems the crops can be multiplied.

collected during fundraising for the school garden

children participated in our project

volunteers conducted educational activities for children and took part in the preparation of the school garden

Volunteers and the residents of the village built together a drip irrigation system in the school garden created a month prior. They grow there onions, sweet potatoes, cassava, corn, cabbage and many other kinds of vegetables. These foods will be used to cook lunches for children, who haven’t eaten anything at school so far. More importantly, the surplus crop will be sold, and all profits will be used to maintain the garden in the future and to buy education materials for the school.

Project “Grow your Plant in Uganda” gave a chance to children from Mile Child School for a better education, following the principle that children who are not hungry, can focus better on learning. Additionally, children are responsible for plants in the garden. Each of them takes care of their plant from the very beginning. This way, children can learn how to be responsible, self-sufficient, independent, and what is more, they learn about new ways to grow crops.

The knowledge acquired during the workshops with the workshops and put into practice in the small fields of their parents will increase the income of families in Kisoso village.

The project was implemented from HumanDoc Foundation’s initiative.

The person responsible for coordinating the project in Uganda is Martin Mubiru – the headmaster and founder of Mile Child School in Kisoso. The project helped 150 children from the school, aged from 3 to 10 years old and their families, as well as 4 school teachers.

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