Targets 2012
Health
- Provide primary health care (PHC) for 10,000 Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
- Provide anti-retroviral (ARVs) medication for 350 HIV infected children and positive living packs (containing water guard, mosquito nets etc.)
- Educate every guardian who attends the health centre on malaria prevention and provide a mosquito net where required.
- Implement referral system with 3 government health centres, 30 partner organisations and Village Health Teams.
- Provide Home Based Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV to 10,000 children and adults.
- Provide nutritional supplementation to all identified malnourished children at the health centre.
- Capacity build 20 government health workers on ‘best practice’ provision of medical treatment.
Education
- Ensure 566 orphans and vulnerable children receive comprehensive educational scholarships.
- Ensure over 8,000 children’s literacy levels are enhanced.
- Educate 100 primary school teachers on the thematic approach to the curriculum.
Sustainable livelihoods
- Train and provide loans to 250 female guardians of orphans and HIV infected children.
- Provide ‘will making’ and birth certificate attainment workshops to 2500 guardians of orphans and vulnerable children.
Children’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Disseminate Nurture Africa Child Protection Policy to 50 partner schools and partner CSOs and develop a child referral system and assist police and local council to follow up on child abuse cases and Gender Based Violence.
- Disseminate child rights and gender equality information and how to deal with child abuse and Gender Based Violence to 9,000 children and their guardians with an emphasis on men to attend.
- Lobby districts to form district human rights commission in Wakiso and Mubende Districts (areas of Nurture Africa operation).
