Our Foundation
HERONA FOUNDATION&HEALTH INITIATIVES
Students under our care at St. Balikudembe Primary school kisoga Mukono
WHO WE ARE
- We are A non-profit making Organization not prompted by any political, social and/or religious affiliation whatsoever. The CBO has its head office at Kisoga trading centre ntenjeru kisoga Mukono District Ogembo town
- Mukono south Constituency comprises people whose average daily earning is less than a dollar. This then simply translates to abject poverty. Most of the people do not have formal employment and so they do informal contractual work that earns them less than a dollar per day. Given the fact that most of these people have families that depend on them, livelihood becomes a great headache making life to be unbearable. Educating children for most community members in the entire constituency has for a long time has been difficult .
- Herona foundation &health initiative in partnership with other likeminded organizations ranging from NGOs, National and County Government, Donors and well wishers assist children from the poor families, vulnerable and also the less privileged in society to not only access basic education but also help them realize their full potential
- Herona foundation &health initiative runs a SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM. where beneficiaries to the program are drawn from poor, vulnerable, marginalized and also from the less privileged in society. The CBO employs the use of a well-designed criterion just to ensure that it is only those who really deserve that get the opportunity to be assisted. That way the CBO is in a good position to equitably distribute the available funds. Sponsorship program lasts for the eight years till a child completes primary education and if lucky and passes to proceed to secondary education, the CBO proceed with the child to secondary till the form four and University.
- SECONDARY TRAINING All students from poor families, less privileged, vulnerable that are unable to meet their required fees for them either to join secondary or to continue with their secondary education are assisted once they meet the criterion . The Foundation only assists in their fee payment, uniform and text books. The foundation has a well-trained Education committee drawn from the CBO executive members who after the applications have been done by all, it goes to each and every applicant’s family and does the assessment based on the information provided and gives recommendation either to the negative or positive.
- Vocational Training
It was realized that not all the sponsored students make it to university by the end of the four or year secondary Education. The few who do not make it then become stranded given the background of their family financial status. Herona in partnership with the supporters support these children to local vocational training institute
OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE.
- To improve the health conditions in the community through mobilisation and raising awareness
- To organise, hold and manage health community camps.
- To fight against the prevalence of pandemics such as
HIV/AIDS,Corona and other epidemic diseases such as malaria, in Uganda - To provide social, moral, medical, education assistance or rehabilitation to children and youth.
- To improve the health and nutrition status of children and their caretakers through the child
initiative program - Provide education to vulnarable children .
OUR MISSION
HERONA FOUNDATION & HEALTH INITIATIVE MISSION
- create awareness on menstral hygiene
- massive awaness on possible causes of visual impairement
- Sanitization and Environmental health
- Parental caring and child rescue management
- Group supervision on their various projects
- Visitation of schools both government and private to educate children on alcohol and drug abuse, sanitization AND HIV awareness etc.
- Training affiliate groups on various subjects especially on the importance of savings and book-keeping
- Identifying cases of early child pregnancies and forwarding reports to the concerned government agencies
Monitoring and evaluating group projects especially the ones that our CBO assisted the groups to start such as brick making, Daily farming, poultry keeping, aquaculture, apiculture etc
VOLUNTEER WITH HERONA FOUNDATION &HEALTH INITIATIVE
- HERONA FOUNDATION & HEALTH INITIATIVE has got an ongoing need for volunteers to do office administration such as reception duties, typing and research on the HIV/AID prevalence and the general Health of PLHIVs and the elderly.
- VOLUNTEER IN OUR COMMUNITY CAMPS ,The organization always need volunteers to help in program support most especially during outreaches and camps
- VOLUNTEER IN RESOURCE MOBOLISATION , organizations often rely on fundraising to survive and need to have diverse and imaginative ways of raising funds for their work. We need volunteers to create ideas or design a funding strategy for the organization so as to continue surviving and supporting the marginalized population.
- VOLUNTEER IN CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR , volunteers in Construction and Renovation project assist with construction work and improvements like painting walls of health facility , childcare centers elderly homes and schools within the local communities. Furthermore, they can make small improvements in the elderly homes or gardens of those people unable to undertake this work themselves. Volunteer tasks can include, but are not limited to, building, renovating, painting, landscaping and bricklaying.