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KIKUMU AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTRE(KARC)

                               African Ark Primary school
P.O. Box 263, opposite St Peter church of Uganda Nyakasanga
 Kasese Uganda
Tel: +256 756987602
kikumuar@gmail.com
                     www.http//kikumuagricultureresearchcentre.blogspot.com
REG.NO. KADNET 058C, KDLG 41, NGO BOARD 7459, CTA 08001


 PROJECT TITLE:
Supporting orphans and other vulnerable students in school adaption
PROJECT TO PROMOTE (DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL)    
African ark primary school Nyakasanga kasese  Uganda

PROJECT SECTOR:
Support to disadvantaged children and marginalized children through Education, adoption Kasese Uganda

IMPLEMENTER: KARC Uganda  
PROJECT TIME FRAME: 2 YEARS

PROJECT LOCATION:
African ark primary school
P.O. Box 263, opposite St Peter church of Uganda Nyakasanga
 Kasese Uganda
Tel: +256 756987602
kikumuar@gmail.com
                     www.http//kikumuagricultureresearchcentre.blogspot.com
                        http//africanarkprimaryschool.blogspot.com
REG.NO. KADNET 058C, KDLG 41, NGO BOARD 7459, CTA 08001

CONTACT PERSON:
KULE NOAH
Executive Director






EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
African ark primary school was established by KARC (kikumu agriculture research centre)non profit project after children psychometric assessment OF mount Rwenzori kasese situation analysis reports tell us that about 30 % of the whole populations are orphans and other needy children who have less or no assistance from relatives and well-wishers. AS reviewed the post wars and heavy rocking of HIV/AIDS Scourge in kasese..
African ark primary school was established with enrollment of 350 children where boys are 200 girls and the boys are 150. We give scholar scholarship free fees to orphans in the school and some accommodation to total orphans. We also have 105 widows who also get help from the project who are completely helpless. However much the school is progressing doing well with both vocational and infant’s education and they have not fully obtained goals due to limited funding. All pupils are provided break tea and total orphans given lunch, supper and scholastic materials. We hope  that all pupils are given full scholarship to be boarders thus 200 pupils.

The following main objectives were thought of for the project:

1.     To educate, support and care for the vulnerable children and widows especially the orphans and other needy children by providing them with free education, medical care, food, scholarship, materials and the general welfare.
2.     To educate the vulnerable children so that they will be especially recognized as important citizens of Uganda and the world at large and be given especial attention incase of need.
3.      To excel in academic, technical entrepreneur skills and co-curricular activities.
4.     To promote the need for protection of vulnerable children to live in a peaceful and enjoyable environment.
5.     To produce physical and emotional balanced children.
6.     To enhance affirmative education of the girl child and pupils with disabilities (PWDS).


INTRODUCTION:

1.0     PROJECT BACKGROUND:
1.1     At the beginning of 2004, some of the concerned men and women of the members of KARC in KASESE Uganda  carried out a quick situation analysis regarding the plight of orphans and other needy children in kasese to over see how orphans suffer.
         
          Realizing that the orphans’ challenges were big, a decision was made to initiate African ark primary school, orphanage vocational to assist the war victim’s orphans education crisis and HIV/AIDS NEEDY ORPHAN KASESE Uganda. This is to advocate for the assistance of the orphans and other needy children and widows to help gaps

Some of the orphans and other needy children’s challenges discovered indicated that in spite of Government efforts to integrate the orphans to the development process, orphans and other needy people in kasese district remain vulnerable to the pending of poverty, illiteracy,HIV/AIDS and ignorance. These children and widows have experienced disasters ranging from civil wars (ADF 1996-2002) and other UGANDAN WARS, epidemics were cholera, malaria and HIV/AIDS. These calamities have claimed quite a number of people dead hence Creating many orphans.

Some children come from very poor families that cannot really offer to educate and nurse their children due to disability or old age.


We hope that the primary become too accommodative of boarders so as to reduce orphans vulnerability.
The mountains terrain of the Rwenzori ranges raises a big challenge to the development of the district especially in rural areas. The road network in the mountains is impossible for vehicles or even bicycles. The economic life rotates around Agriculture with the major cash crops being coffee, cotton, some vanilla which has no market at the moment, maize, and passion fruits etc.

Kasese  would have been fair in economic development had it has been not in insurgency of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) which beset the area from 1996 – 2002 and other post wars as a result of the insurgency many people lost their lives and property and the survivors about 50% of the population lived in protected camps.

Now that peace has returned to the region, the area leadership with the support from the central government development partners and civil society organizations continue to support all innovations and projects for poverty eradication in the district. As much as government is trying to help orphans and other needy children, the orphans are too many and suffering in terms of lacking education support, that government can not afford satisfying their needs   all together.

As a result, most of these have ended up being victims of HIV/AIDS, theft, drug abuse and more seriously, the fear that they may be hired to join rebel groups were ADF etc.

2.0     THE PROBLEM STATEMENT
Kasese has suffered a massive displacement in the settlement partners and HIV/AIDS have plundered communities to high creation of orphan planet. This was caused by the ADF armed conflict which swept off the district from1997-2006, post other wars in CONG Up to 2009.
There were frequent troop movements in the area who developed sexual relationships with most people learning their lives endangered. Also redundancy precipitated most people particularly the youth to include them selves in sexual promiscuity that exposed them to contracting HIV/AIDS hence many orphans. Other calamities that led to many orphans include among others; frequent cholera out break, malaria fever in the region that has killed many people learning many orphans with no or less assistance from relatives and well wishers.

As a result, most of the children become unruly and independent from their guardians because they missed parental guidance in different aspects of life, many of these children have indulged in immoral acts such as drug abuse, early marriages, that have resulted into the contraction of HIV/AIDS.


As per now, the school has enrolled all kinds of children because Kasese town council and region has suffered common problems of poverty, ignorance, illiteracy and famine due to the ADF armed forces that swept off the district from 1996-2009
Government of Uganda has also successfully educated some vulnerable children including orphans but the real orphans have not benefited due to the fact that the officers concerned favour their own children and or relatives learning the real orphans and the other needy children to lack behind thus corruption is high in Ugandan Government.

The number of children being orphaned and the number of child and elderly headed hence holds has reached alarming level, while there are large numbers of orphans and needy children without care and education. The rights of orphaned children are rarely recognized.

We have many orphans in school but we have a lot of challenges of lack of salaries for teachers, limited boarding space, orphans scholastics, meals, spots materials, lack of latrines, poor health care and uniform.

Kasese  has suffered the effects of a large scale displacement due to the ADF insurgency between 1997 and 2007 that caused massive social up heavily and has raised concern among all the community that poor education performance is likely to have increased significance.  We need to assist orphans in the above areas of concern.
We need dometries, scholastics,meals and secondhand hand clothes, clinic for primary health care,latrines,salaries for teachers and food for children..


PROJECT SUCCESS

The project will succeed basing on the following factors:-
                                            i.Experienced and knowledgeable facilitators who are well advanced with the campaigns against ignorance and illiteracy programs will be deployed.
                                          ii.orphans and street children  are too many in kasese Uganda
                                        iii.Resourceful persons with the knowledge in education and Health conditions and programs shall always are invited.
                                       iv.District education office supports our activities.
                                         v.We have one acre of land and 12 classrooms with 350 pupils.
                                       vi.Support from district leaders, extension workers and local leaders shall always be engaged during co-ordination to different communities.
                                     vii.Availability of some locally needed resources, theatricals for technical skills, books for literally campaigns, reserved places for workshops, seminars and meetings shall be put into consideration.
                                   viii.All orphans need education
                                       ix.Public awareness about the education of orphans and other needy children shall be put to the far trait because the programme will be for individual benefit among the community.
Sensitization of the mass is also still lagging behind because the capacity to meet these obligations is still limited. Therefore, the initiators are optimist that if funded the school the progress to cater for the vulnerable children shall increase.


3.0     PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
Orphans and other needy children remain one of the major development challenges in kasese and Uganda as a whole.

It is estimated that about 30% of the population in kasese district constitute the number of orphans. The government of Uganda policy of empowering vulnerable people including orphans has yielded positive results. This justifies the project to be justiefied. The alerming numbers orphans justifies the program.


4.0     MISSION STATEMENT
Increase education of needy children through adoption to education.
4.1     GOALS
Facilitating the environment for needy children to achieve sustainable education in order to over come poverty and vulnerabilities.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
·        To construct dome tries   support the vulnerable children especially the orphans and other needy children by providing them with free accommodation
·        Provide service van to aid facilitation of transport of school activities.
·        increase enrolment of orphans from 350 to 700
·        construct worship centre for children (prayer centre)
·        construct min clinic for children orphaned in school
·        offer meals for orphans
·        support teachers

5.0     PROJECT ACTIVITIES DESIGN
(i)                Mobilization
(ii)               radio talk shows
(iii)Provide service van to aid facilitation of transport of school activities.
(iv)increase enrolment of orphans from 350 to 700 by mobilisation
(v)  construct worship centre for children (prayer centre)
(vi)construct min clinic for children orphaned in school
(vii)offer meals for orphans
(viii)support teachers salaries

(ix)            Construct  improved school latrines, water tank,
(x)              Review meetings
(xi)            To recruit more teachers, school nurses in the school ,adoption of orphans, street children and Continuous teaching
(xii)          Monitoring and evaluation

(xiii)        Auditing of accounts
(xiv)       Reporting



6.0     MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Head teacher, board of directors ,PTA and teachers African Ark p. School, DEO kasese , parents, parish priest CONGO all do the monitoring and evaluation are critical and will be done through review of its performance objectives and out put indicators. This will be done daily to ensure that the activities remain responsive to the needs, aspirations and capacity of the orphans and other needy children.

On going monitoring and evaluation is desirable to ensure that the project’s development mid-term and annual goals are being met.

Annual surveys and Audits will be conducted to monitor overall effectiveness of the strategies in place.
Inspection reports, children performance of exams and children wel fare are determined by indicators through observation, questionnaires, focus group discussion and interviewing clients.
Live a positive future generation life hence solving problems of Uganda  and Africa as a whole being Africans of course.
Monitoring and Evaluation shall be made to review in questionnaires, interviewing, observation and review meetings as to measure indicators.
          RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS
1.  The security situations remain calm and favourable for better teaching and learning atmosphere of the children and staff.
2.  The orphans and the needy children are readily available and in want to learn.
3.  Funding be flowing and enough to meet the needs of the orphans and other vulnerable children.
4.  water facilities be properly utilized and improve on the healthy conditions of the orphans and other needy children.
5.  The community to continue with the spirit started with and be fully engaged in further mobilization and sensitization.






          PROJECT MANAGEMENT
African ark primary school has the following management structure:
        i.            General assembly -supremme
      ii.            Board  of directors – Policy making
    iii.            PTA (parents teachers association )
   iv.            Staffing- school, Executive director, deputy director, headmaster, deputy headmaster, teachers, bursar, librarian, matrons, store keeper security guards & casual workers. Supporting staff- cooks, and the cleaners.(secretariat)
     v.            Students board
   vi.            community

          PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY

Construction of boarding, min clinic, water rain tanks, worship centre, toilets facilities and salaries shall stabilize the school and the facilities shall continue be used by future orphans and teachers in kasese Uganda

REPORTING
Quarterly reports will be prepared and send to donor by the project head teacher, teachers representatives from AREA Education office, inspectors, PTA, policy makers, coordinator AWF and Parish priest . This shall ensure that will be a report made, progress of the institution, impact to the community and the assessment, evaluation programs made.

What do we NEED in African ark primary school
Ø     We need to increase orphans from day to boarding in school
Ø     From streets to boarding
Ø     Orphan care and reduce malnutrition of orphans
Ø     Offer psychosocial support
Ø     Offer free medical services
Ø     Free testing and HIV/AIDS Counseling
Ø     Settle HIV/AIDS orphans
Ø     Have scan and micro equipment for testing malaria
Ø     Control of diseases in orphans
Ø     Have clinic for orphans
Ø     Improve spiritual issues to orphans.
Ø     Improve sanitation of our school
Ø     Ensure to have salaries for teachers so that teachers don’t dodge orphan classes.
Ø     Improve on nutrition and care for orphans.

EXPECTED RESULTS
Ø     Reduce street children and orphans in towns and rural areas.
Ø     The worship centre shall increase spiritual make up of orphans and become better leaders of Uganda
Ø     Increase adoption of orphan, street children  to education
Ø     Excel academics of vulnerable children as they board in school
Ø     Increase self reliance among OVC  through vocational skills
Ø     Offer psycho social support in boarding
Ø     Increase performance  of pupils
Ø     Promotion of children rights
Ø     Increase self reliance among  children and behaviors change
Ø     Unify pupils in school 
Ø     Stabilize orphans education
Ø     Increase orphans boarders
Ø     Improved sanitation and hygiene
Ø     Easy teachers monitoring children
Ø     Improve nutrition among orphans

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