OUR BACKGROUND

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.

VISION

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

MISSION

“To inform and support communities with quality care services

What LYOWEFA stand for: 

  • Community participation
    LYOWEFA believes that a sustainable community empowerment can only be succeeded by community participation and ownership. Therefore the target community is involved in every project designing and implementation.
  • Resource orientation
    LWOWEFA’s approach implies a start from the available community resources, regarding our target group as subjects with a wide range of individual potentials and experts of their reality
  • Social cohesion
    LYOWEFA is working with a mixed target group from different cultural and religious backgrounds. The Core value of our work approach are the fundamental human rights, which regard every human being as equal, not regarding their tribe, their religious believes or cultural norms
  • Transparency
    LYOWEFA guarantees a transparent way of operating with a proper accountability system, which ensures a responsible management of funding and community resources.

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 mobilisation 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.