What we do..
- UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
- EDUCATION
- SENSITIZATION
- EMPOWERMENT
- LOVING EARTH
- SEXUAL REP. HEALTH
- HIV PREVENTION
Unconditional love is an unlimited way of being. We are without any limit to our thoughts and feelings in life and can create any reality we choose to focus our attention upon. There are infinite imaginative possibilities when we allow the freedom to go beyond our perceived limits. If we can dream it, we can build it. Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight. Through this unconditional love, We give and share love with the community unconditionally by providing scholastic materials to school going needy youth, children and orphans. Give the Love Foundation caring for the community carries out special days of giving support to orphans, needy children, widows.
Identification and registration of needy children and orphans who are unable to access education. Providing quality education by sponsoring orphans, needy children and youth. Training of school dropout youth, orphans and disadvantaged in vocational skills like tailoring, hair dressing and other vocational skills.
Give the Love Foundation cares and inspires the community through carrying out sensitization programs to both adolescent girls, young women by raising public awareness on the values of girl child education and increased resource allocation. We also sensitize the community on sexual reproductive health hence increasing access to sexual reproductive health rights and legal protection. Sensitization of communities and institutions on how to handle orphans, needy children and school dropouts.
Give the Love Foundation inspiring people to love unconditionally for a better tomorrow by empowering vulnerable adolescent girls and young women with skills to reduce their vulnerability through a range of evidence based activities like tailoring and other vocational skills
A beautiful and loving life is a natural part of our existence and begins first and foremost with acceptance and love for self. for what we have within is what we then give out. Allow love first as your foundation and all life will experience that love. When we recognize our innate love, wisdom and power, we become the conscious and privileged custodians of our wondrous earth. This is more than just our home; it is a vast, interactive and amazing classroom of incredible proportions. As we move in cycle upon cycle of cosmic grace, throughout our particular galaxy and beyond, we awaken to the reality that we are intricately woven into the very fabric of life itself. Nothing can exist without the other while experiencing this physical realm. Give the Love Foundation caring for nature carries out various activities that do include and are not limited to;
Tree Planting
Tree planting is widely proposed to curb climate change and biodiversity loss. In most regions of the country more especially in the East and the North, trees have been cut for domestic use and charcoal for sell in order to earn a living. Give the Love Foundation caring for nature implements activities that preserve climate and in so doing, we partner with other organizations in making sure that the environment is preserved by maintaining the green nature of the environment and we advocate for cut one tree and plant ten more.
Sanitation
Give the Love Foundation cares for the environment in communities by provision of facilities and services for safe management of human excreta from the toilet to containment and storage and treatment onsite or conveyance, treatment and eventual safe end use and disposal.
Give the Love Foundation Uganda operates in the rural areas of Mbale and other areas of Elgon Region along the slopes of Mt. Elgon, being on the slopes of the mountain, there are many challenges that affect the adolescents and young women.Give the Love Foundation is set to overcome such sexual reproductive health issues by;
‘Protecting adolescents from Gender-Based Violence through the Campaign of their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’. We started a program in 2019 that aims at raise awareness and enhance protection of children, adolescents and young women (10-17 years old) in the Elgon region from gender-based violence (early marriage, FGM and sexual abuse) through promotion of their right to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in six target Districts of Elgon Region: Bududa, Manafwa, Namisidwa, Mbale, Sironko, and Bulambuli.
Children and Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights. These rights Increase awareness of the importance of sex and reproductive education for adolescents and young women by linking it to the rights of the child;
Provide the necessary knowledge for enhancing the safety and sexual and reproductive health of children, adolescents and women young to avoid the risks that threaten their health. Enhance positive attitudes and sound skills relating to sexual and reproductive health among children, adolescents and young women.
SEXUAL AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) refers to any act that is committed against a person’s will and is based on gender norms and unequal power relationships. It includes physical, emotional or psychological and sexual violence, and denial of resources or access to services. Violence includes threats of violence and coercion. SGBV inflicts harm on women, girls, men and boys and is a severe violation of several human rights.
Persons of concern are often at heightened risk of SGBV during emergencies. This can be due to a number of factors, including the sudden breakdown of family and community structures after forced displacement. Certain groups in a population may be particularly at risk of SGBV: older persons, persons with disabilities, adolescents, children, Young women who are female heads of household..
Give the Love Foundation Uganda supports interactive process with communities (as integrated with an overall program) to develop tailored messages and approaches using a variety of communication channels to develop positive behaviors; promote and sustain individual, community and maintain appropriate behaviors.
Adolescence (10-19 years) is a phase of physical growth and development accompanied by sexual maturation, often leading to intimate relationships. Adolescent HIV/AIDS is a separate epidemic and needs to be handled and managed separately from adult HIV. The adolescents can be subdivided into student, slum and street youth; street adolescents being most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Among various risk factors and situations for adolescents contracting HIV virus are adolescent sex workers, child trafficking, child labor, migrant population, childhood sexual abuse, coercive sex with an older person and biologic (immature reproductive tract) as well as psychological vulnerability. The most common mode of transmission in youth in the Elgon Region districts; cross generational sex, prostitution, among others. The disclosure and declaration of HIV status to self and family is challenging and guilt in sexually infected adolescents and tendency to blame parents if vertically affected need special consideration and proper counseling. We works together with the community, area counselors attached to the nearest health facility to identify the HIV infected persons who have not yet started drugs or Treatment related issues revolve around when and what of initiation of ARV; the choice of antiretroviral and their dosages; issues