Lwengo Youth & Women’s Effort Fighting AIDS/HIV (LYOWEFA

WELCOME TO Lwengo Youth & Women’s Effort Fighting AIDS/HIV (LYOWEFA)

A rural Community Based Organization (CBO) operating in Lwengo District, Western Region, Uganda founded in 2017

ABOUT

Lwengo Youth & Women’s Effort Fighting AIDS/HIV (LYOWEFA): Helping mitigate the challenges associated with HIV/AIDS scourge in the community of Kabalungi village,Lwengo subcounty.

LYOWEFA is a rural Community Based Organization (CBO) operating in Lwengo District, Western Region, Uganda founded in 2017. LYOWEFA focuses its services on youth ,Women and children in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support of orphans and vulnerable children, poverty alleviation, Water and Sanitation .

We provide services to the youth and Women through outreach in schools and villages, working together with public health centers for testing and counseling.

OUR MISSION

Our VISION

“A community with no prevalence and impact of HIV/AIDS scourge”.

MISSION

“To inform and support communities with quality care services”.

OBJECTIVES

Since the mission of the project is to see rural women and youth live a self-sustainable life, it is therefore, her responsibility to carry out the following:

Educative seminars in various areas
Poverty alleviation
Proper nutrition
Water and sanitation
Improved agriculture
Proper child care
Proper health care-hygienically
Educate the community on HIV/AIDS and intensify voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services in the community
Reduce the spread (new cases) of HIV/AIDS through effective mobilization and sensitisation
Assistance to widows, the elderly and other foster guardians of orphans and vulnerable children(OVC) to get education and material support for orphans under their care.

WHAT WE DO

EDUCATION

LYOWEFA works with St.Peter’s Nursary and Primary School –Kabalungi to provide the affordable quality formal education to children from kindergarten to Grade 7 at the primary level.To date LYOWEFA has been able to support a total of 25 orphaned and vulnerable children in school.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

LYOWEFA designs and implements youth facilitation programs that engage local young children and adolescents, helping them get to know the resources available in the community and sensitizing them to the community issues, like HIV-related stigma and gender discrimination.

Orphans & Vulnerable Children Support

Of the approximately 1.2 million people in Uganda living with HIV/AIDS, over half are women, and about 150,000 are children under 15. The deaths caused by the disease have resulted in a large orphan population, usually under the care of single positive individual.

POVERTY ALLEVIATION