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Contact:
Aaron Bukenya, Director
Bugerere Education Support Organisation
www.besoug.org
[email protected]
or [email protected]
Tel(s)
+256712267770, +256752267770
P.o
Box 11348 Kampala Uganda East Africa
Lyded
tower first floor room 8, near Barclays Banks
Kalerwe,
2 and half miles Kampala-Gayaza Road.-------
Wanteete Village Kayunga District, Uganda. The village is about two and a half hours
outside of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. Wanteete residents just
barely get by from the crops they grow. Beautiful crops surround
people’s homes including vegetables, ground nuts, bananas, corn, millet,
pineapple, coffee, vanilla beans and much more. A few chickens and
goats roam the grounds. Although their land is fertile and they are able
to live substantially from their own food production, their basic needs
are barely met – when they are. The nearest health center is five to
six miles away and poorly equipped. Most residents of Wanteete are below
the poverty line and cannot easily afford medicine or other monetary
goods if they need them. Some kids go to school but have to walk miles
for a classroom that two hundred plus students try to cram into. There
is no electricity and few of the grass-thatched huts that fill the
village have latrines. The only bore hole serves three villages and access to clean water is a big problem;
we want to help our community through our organisation.
we shall construct five water sources to th whole sub-county, the Busaana Sb-county, Kayunga District
Organisation Summary
Bugerere Education Support Organisation (BESO-Uganda)
was founded after a grueling realization of a need that required imperative,
fast and immediate action. This involved a people who had been victimized by
the devil and unfavorable circumstances, and as we assessed their plight, there
was simply no way how one could have turned back on this and go home and have a
good night’s sleep.
The Bugerere Education Support Organization was created
in 2008, to give back to communities in Bugerere County and other parts of
Uganda that we can reach, it was legally registered in 2009 under registration
number 185/2010 and 09598 (Kitgum district and Kayunga Districts respectively) With a vision of a leading organization in a friendly world where
leading friends play active roles to reach out in the practically of “faith
with works” to demonstrate the love and compassion to the vulnerable population
as we mobilize and manage resources available to contribute to the vulnerable
population’s (children and rural women) education and welfare through
financial, material or technical support to enable them achieve their full
potential to make significant contribution to the development of the society.
With a goal to develop an attractive support
program that is relevant to the needs and aspirations of orphans, underserved,
vulnerable children and rural women, to improve their quality of life by
fostering relationships to increase understanding among friends, creating
awareness about the children and women issues, increasing access to health
information and service, access to clean drinking water, promoting sustainable development through vocational
studies and agricultural resources, talent development, education,
institutional capacity building and advocacy.
Unfortunately, due to its unfavorable financial
situation, BESO is unable to measure to the expectations of the
communities. This is why the
organization is turning to people of good will to assist in this what is surely
a worthwhile venture.
BESO is expected by the communities to facilitate
and promote activities aimed at education,
poverty alleviation as well as to improve their conditions of living
which would include agriculture development to alleviate hunger and poverty,
water and sanitation, health organization and capacity building and
others. It is therefore the urgent
desire of BESO to be in position to engage in these activities for the benefit
of the poor in the area hence the development of this project.
We are writing to request support
for the organization. We would greatly appreciate you spreading information
about BESO and any funds that could be collected.
Our children are still living in sticks and
leaves patched together as shacks, with single mothers, forgotten in the
corners of Uganda.
Many girls are married off before they even turn 14 year old! Their mothers let
them marry because they don’t have enough food, clothing and access to health
care, none-the-less school. These children are very weak, having parents who
have died from HIV/AIDS, wars and poverty. Some end up working in stone
quarries, splitting rocks with their hands and heavy hammers, in the midst of
the burning sun. Many spend time roaming for food or working to try and grow
crops. Others of 10, 11 and 12 years old spend their days at landing sites,
catching, cleaning and loading fish to waiting vessels or cars. They are abused
as cheep labor and unable to go to school or properly develop. Many of the boys
turn to crime and drugs, joining gangs and the girls risk going into
prostitution, homelessness and facing violence.
Concerning the work that we are doing in the
women’s sector, this is integrated together with the AIDS support system, sustainable
development, counseling, vocational training and adult education. This is a
very outstanding, concerted– effort and intensive action, with the help of free
willing professional counselors, we concentrate on encouraging the people we
are dealing with in BESO to come out and take the AIDS test.
We encourage them by carefully informing them that
in spite of the presence of AIDS virus in their bodies; they still have a
chance to live the rest of their lives positively, IF THEY’D BE WILLING TO
CONSEQUENTLY CHANGE THEIR LIFESTYLES! And it has worked. We encourage them to
be creative with their lives so that they can realize the productivity of a
well organized, disciplined life. We encourage them to be self-motivated
positive thinkers, and as well to take more responsibility as they carry on
with life, for example, not to slip back into old behavior like sexual
promiscuity or intravenous drugs, or to infect others with the virus.
We have stood
together shoulder-to-shoulder with the women in encouraging them to undertake
income-generating activities like art and crafts making, brick-laying, piggery, pineapple growing,
poultry, crop production among others.
We encourage and assist women very much; especially
the pregnant to see that they give birth in hospital instead of at home, so
that it is so done that the baby does not get infected with the virus, as that
would always happen at childbirth.
We arouse awareness amongst the women about their
reproductive health, and encourage them to play an active role in planning
their families (how many children to have, how to space them, and other such
issues). Boiling water for drinking so that they dont get the effects of taking unsafe water.
Our volunteering teams is undertaking a vigorous
campaign to encourage women to get a very child immunized – against cholera,
whooping cough, diphtheria, poliomyelitis and other killer – or clipping
diseases.
We have special sessions in which we address the
rampant issue of domestic violence. This is mostly committed by men against
their wives and children! So this is where it involves the child and women’s
rights, welfare and safety.
In this very forum we address the necessity of the
education of the girl child, because very unfortunately, many men give
preference to boys than girls, in which case when it comes to catering for
schooling and education, some men think that investing in a girl is a waste,
vis-à-vis investing in a boy at school.
we hope you can help our communities.
for more information about us please visit our webiste
www.besoug.org
www.besoug.blogspot.com.
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