Save our community for Future Development  
What we Do
Our work falls into
the following areas
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM's work evolves
a round the following thematic areas: A good welfare and improved health of
dignity, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition amongOrphan children, youth, women and vulnerable populations is their Right.
ORPHANs
Education is a human right
and a significant element in the eradication of poverty and child labour; it is
also instrumental in the promotion of democracy, peace, tolerance, personal and
social development and so,
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM negotiates with
partner schools for free scholarships and pays half and quarter bursaries for
the most vulnerable children and families.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM is dedicated to
securing basic education for all through acquiring bursaries/scholarships for
orphans and vulnerable children. Experience shows that learning attacks poverty
at its roots. Educated people can make thoughtful and informed decisions that
will positively affect their lives, their families, their communities and their
world. Mothers are more likely to have healthier children and higher incomes.
Today we work alongside communities, government and partner organizations at
many levels to address all aspects of basic education.
Our inclusive approaches
include provision of scholastic materials like Books, Pens, Pencils, Color Pencils,
Toilet Papers, Sets, Brooms among others and addressing reasons why children
are out of school involving communities in assessing and overcoming their
unique barriers to learning; and conducting broad campaigns that promote the
right to education for all people.
Nutrition
Sadly, nearly 10 million
children under the age of five die each year in developing countries, mainly
from preventable causes. Over 55 percent of these deaths, roughly 6 million
children, are directly attributable to malnutrition.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM places a
special focus on infant and young child feeding and related maternal nutrition
practices and care. Proper nutrition is vital to a child's healthy development
and an adult's ability to work and care for her family. We protect, promote and
support optimal growth and development for children under the age of five to
ensure their best chance for survival.
Our organization focus on
teaching techniques and practices that help prevent malnutrition, including
proper breastfeeding techniques, educating families and communities about how
to prepare nutritious complementary food.
Better nutrition for
infants and young children means stronger immune systems, less illness and
greater cognitive and productive capacity throughout their lives.
Maternal nutrition practices and related concerns also play a large role
in the success or failure of pregnancy outcomes, and the survival and
subsequent feeding of the infant. In order for women to have the best chance
for a successful pregnancy and give her infant the best start for optimal
growth and development, maternal nutrition must be addressed. Women need to be
supported and empowered to claim their rights to provide for their infants with
the opportunity to thrive.
Children-Youth and Women
Empowerment
Of the 30.8 million
estimated Uganda’s population, the youth constitute 75% and most of the youth
are in rural areas. A trend of rural-urban migration by the youth is in a major
move. The major causes for this migration pattern is search for better social
services and amenities like education and health services but the search for
employment or business opportunities is the major cause. However most of the
youth fail to get jobs and end up in urban slums and streets, they engage in
unproductive or anti social activities like prostitution, thuggery and drug
abuse.
HIV/AIDS, Poverty,
unemployment and underemployment are the main problems affecting the youth, the
major causes of these problems above are; Lack of employable skills, Lack of
access to resources like land and capital, Lack of focus on the youth by the
existing programmes, over emphasis on experience and lack of apprenticeship
schemes, Negative attitudes by the youth towards work especially in
agriculture, Lack of a comprehensive employment policy, Negative cultural
attitudes such as gender discrimination and lack of appropriate information.
Among the problems facing the youth, the priority area of focus is the youth
employment challenge. The youth appeal to the government and other stakeholders
to review the youth employment challenge and put in place policy, legal and
institutional framework to address the problem.
In a bid to empower the
youth with entrepreneurship skills, COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FORUM has
aTailoring centre, Wieldering Workshop,BikesRepair and Electrical Vocational TrainingWorkshop
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM Drama Group
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM has mobilized
the youth from the communities for drama training sessions. Drama programs
focus on healthy, physical, social and emotional development of youth and build
safer and stronger communitiesand also to teach health education and
leadership, self esteem, communication respect, and peace building.
The organisation uses sport
and play as a tool for development of children and youth in the most advantaged
areas of the world,
Community Development
Volunteer Programs
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUM is engaged into
community development work such as helping children, youth and families
infected and affected to HIV/AID’s through family visits,cleaning wells/ water
chanels, roads/ streets, market/Trading centres, tree planting, building houses
among others, This is done through a local and international volunteering
programs which involves
Our Future Plans
COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FORUMwill
continue to focus on protection, education, health, and food and economic
security activities and how these initiatives can be more closely integrated.
For example, protecting children will be a crosscutting theme across all
programs. Our HIV/AIDS and orphaned and vulnerable children activities will be
coupled with food security and economic opportunities programs.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMwishes to build orphanage homes for provision
of parental careand basic needs like
food, water, shelter, clothing’s and security for HIV/AID,s affected and
infected persons, orphans, venerable groups, street(homeless) and helpless children.
We plan
to build health centers for the provision of free voluntary HIV/AID's testing,
condoms to the communities and medical care, drugs (ARV'S), counseling and
guidance to the HIV/AID,s infected and affected persons, youth, orphans and
vulnerable groups among the majority.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMwishes to build both primary and secondary
schools, vocational and technical institutions for educating the orphans and
vulnerable childrenin various courses
i.e electrical and motor rewinding, computer training, hair dressing ,etc.
In addition, we will expand education initiatives so that
more hard-to-reach children can attend and remain in school, and continue to
tackle critical issues for pastoralist and fishing communities.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMhopes to start up development projects like
bakeries, tailoring schools, catering services, internet and computer training
centers, goat and poultry farms for the aim of making the organization a self
sustaining one, improving the incomes levels and living standards among
HIV/AID,s infected persons orphans and Vulnerable (OVC) through provision of
employment opportunities after training courses.
We will
engage in agriculture through practicing modern farming as growing crops e.g
banana, cassava, sweet potatoes, beans, peas, maize, millet and grazing animals
like cattle, goats, sheep, rabbits and poultry both local and foreign breeds.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMwishes to building the firstuniversity for the orphans andvulenarable groups in the world.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMwishes to organise, conduct, attend and
present in conferences, seminars, workshops and campaigns organised around the
world.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMhopes to participate in Environmental
conservation through creating strategies of maintaining the environment like
encouraging planting of trees.
COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
FORUMwishes to
engage in Talent Motivation (sports) i.e Football, Net ball, Basket ball,
Volley Ball, Swimming, Tennis, Rugby,etc. This will help them to express/ show
off their talents to professional levels thus attracting international
attention.
COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION FORUMwishes to partner-network with different
organisations, donor agencies, foundations, companies, schools/institutions and
individuals both national and international with similar objectives, vision,
mission and goals operating in parts of Uganda, East Africa, Africa, Asia,
Europe, America and the entire world on its journey of expansion.