AM PROUD TO BE A GIRL

This initiative was launched by The Youth Outreach Mission in partnership with Help International volunteers 2011.

Analysis of the problem
many girls in Uganda go face a lot of challenges with out having any body to help them solve such problems.
These challenges are mainly physical and emotional which do affect there career development, this has made them develop hatred for being girls and many of them curse this natural endowment from God.

A team of dedicated members both from TYOM and Help International Volunteers 2011 came up with plans on how to help girls make them feel proud of being and equip them with various skills on how to handle/Solve these problems.

How the problem was Handled
The team was involved in several campaigns which we held in different schools to try and talk to the students inspiring and equipping them with ways and skills on how to manage their problems
the schools we visited included;

1. St Andrews Secondary School Lugazi
2. Lugazi Mixed
3. Lugazi High
4. Bishop Nkoyoyo Matale
   
5. Home land collage
   
6. Mehta Secondary

At these schools many girls welcomed our campaign and were very exited to know that amidst all their challenges they got people to talk to them.
The campaign of promoting the girls and making them feel proud shall continue on and on.
Your Ideas on how we can approach such problems is very welcome.
Rewards

All the schools that participated in this campaign were rewarded with certificates of participation which were given to both the senior female teachers of each school and the Head girls for championing the campaign and helping out girls achieve their life time goals.


Appreciation
Our appreciation and sincere thanks go;

• All the Schools that participated in making this campaign a great success and allowing us visit your schools.
• The team members who included;

1. Kellie Norton
   
2. Mikaeli Zito
3. Abigail Evans
   
4. Elise McAllister
   
5. Elizabeth Wilson
6. Lutajani Khemis
7. Kidimu Allan
8. Camille Mcalmont
9. Laker Wilson

This team made the whole campaign very successful because they devoted much of their time to helping out the young people achieve their life time goals and over come all the hard huddles of their lives.

The Youth Extravaganza 2010

Theme: HIV AIDS AND TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
Objectives:
1. To sensitize the students and the public about HIV/AIDS
2. To decampaign teenage pregnancies amongst the school going students
3. To equip the youths with various skills on how they can fight and wipe out the deadly HIV/AIDS virus and teenage pregnancies
4. To promote the talents of the youth in Music, dance and drama

Activities that the students participated in
Music
Dance
Drama
Poems all centering on HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies
Free HIV/AIDS testing and counseling was also provided

ACHIEVEMENTS
• Students were equipped with various skills on, how to fight HIV/AIDS and Teenage pregnancies
• The festival provided a platform for all the students to show case their talents in music dance and drama.
• Over 200 people were able to access free HIIV/AIDS testing and counseling and were able to know their HIV status.
• Students who participated in the annual writing contest that was initiated by Suzan Stack, Ashley and ally Adams in partnership with the Youth outreach mission were also rewarded on this same day
• The festival created awareness on HIV/AIDS and Teenage pregnancies

Appreciations
• Help International
• All the Volunteers Help International 2010 Lugazi
• Becca Steele
• Sarah King
• Molly Latty
• All members of the youth outreach mission

Brace up your selves for the Youth Extravaganza 2011

The Soccer Academy

We wish to send our sincere thanks to every body who donated towards the soccer Academy

The money has been used purchase:

• 12 pairs of soccer boots
• 12 shirts
• Registration of the soccer academy
• Refreshments during soccer games
• 4 soccer balls

Joy filled the soccer camp when the donations arrived. The children could not hide their joy as each one of them hurriedly tried out the uniforms. We convey our grateful thanks to every body who donated their money to make sure the soccer academy is a great success.

Thanks to Andrew Lovell, the Help Volunteers 2010, and especially those who devoted their time to serve the soccer academy Alexi Pannek, Tim Enrico, Tim coons, Ellen Spangberg and everybody that we have not been able to mention.

You will always be remembered and always be missed.

May the almighty God richly bless you all.

Youth extravaganza 10, July, 2010

Brace up for the biggest event of the year on the Youth Outreach Calendar.
What?: The Annual Youth Extravaganza
Theme: Teenage Pregnancies and HIV/AIDS.

We request for your participation both Spiritually, physicaly and Financially as we rich out to thousands of young people on HIV/AIDS and Teenage Pregnancies.

Your participation will have an ever lasting impact on The youth and the generations to come.

Thanks for always loving and supporting us.
We love you.
Be blessed.

Sensitization at St. Mary's college school

TheYouth outreach Mission is always proud to visit schools and openly speak about HIV/AIDS to youth.
This day of April, 19, 2010, we visited St. Marys college Lugazi with two (2) major themes to share with them.
1- Career guidance
2- The fight against aids starts with me.
We started our sensitization at 14:00GMT and ended it at 17:00 GMT.
Our major objectives in this sensitization were
1- to create awareness about AIDS
2-Give students various tips of how to succeed in life
3- Equip the students with various life skills and how to be
focused in life by setting various goal and objectives to achieve.
4- to equip students with various methods and ways of fighting HIV/AIDS.
5-To answer some of their burning questions on life and HIV/AIDS

The benefits of this sensitivities
We managed to successfully achieve all the above mentioned objective
we also got a positive response from the students as they made allegiance to always protect their lives and keep their dreams alive.
We also formed an AIDS club at the school which we are going to train
to reach out to their fellow students and equip them with various skills in life and AIDS.
The students had a lot of questions to ask, but due
to time we could not exhaust all of them, we are now compiling all the questions together and we shall take back their answers and put them up on the notice board so that they can all read it.
This will be in form of a news letter.

I would like to thank every body who made this sensitization
a success, with out you this wouldn't be great.
Please continue supporting us to reach out to thousands of students out there with an aim of having an HIV/AIDS free generation.

Visit to the orphans

The members of T.Y.O.M made a maiden visit to the orphaned children of God mercy Junior school in Lugazi.
These children are orphaned due to the death of their parents from AIDS and other natural occurrences like accidents. They are happily studying under a temporary shed made of poll and papyrus.
we shared a lot with these children both in class and out on the playing grounds.
We also donated pens, books and Pencils to the school to help the children in their learning process.
We also played football and other games just to show them that they are not alone in the world but that there are other people who can share with them in both times of joy and sadness.
Snacks and sweets were given out.
The school is looking after 26 orphans.
Their Major plan is to put up a major permanent structure because when it rains the pupils lessons are canceled and they will not study the whole day, they are usually affected by rain and too much sun hit.
So we need to pray for these little angels, they are living a very hard life and their Education is not that pleasing.

Construction of protected well springs

We are very Grateful to all the people who have made this a success, Rebeca Burgon and her family, Kristen Joy Daniels, Taylor Mackay and Help International not forgetting our Local Authorities Lugazi Town Council. the groups and people mentioned above have been at the fore front of the renovations of these wells through financial, moral and spiritual support that has seen the well up graded and now people can access safe clean Water in the community.
I wish to thank you all in a special way for making us reach out to the communities, it's because of your support that peoples standards of living have been improved upon, may you be rewarded back abundantly.
To all the members of the Youth Outreach mission thank you for making this a great success.
When we interviewed residents in Lugazi after the renovation of the well, they were very exited and added "I can't believe we can now take safe water, we were scared of drinking infected and unclean water, thank you boys you have made a great change to all that have made this successful", paul musika one of the beneficiaries excitedly explained.
1-The pictures show people collecting water from the source.
2-T.Y.O.M members renovating the well
3- The finished well ready for use

Donations to Orphans

No body ever wishes to become an orphan. It's always Gods plan that people become orphans.
Worse still is most orphans here in Africa lack basic essential needs like food,water,proper shelter and clothes because there is no body to cater for their needs.
Most of them end up on streets(street children),girls end up going in for early child hood marriages with unwanted pregnancies.
The situation can always be put right if some body would take up the responsibility and provide the little to these children.
In the photo graphs the chairperson is seen donating to an orphaned group of children living in Lugazi.
The other picture is of the children standing in front of their house.
It pays a lot to contribute the little you have to the needy not only in Africa but even where you live because God will always reward you abundantly for your generosity. be blessed as you reach out to the needy.

T.Y.O.M Donates To a Fire Gutted school

On this fateful day Rimage Classical Junior School experienced a fire out brake late in the night, damaging a great deal of school property especially for the students in the boarding section. It was the boys wing which was most affected. Luckily, no deaths were reported, but students received some minor injuries.
When the Youth outreach mission learned of this tragedy, we quickly mobilized the youth and donated two mattresses, dozens of books, clothes, pencils, pens and basins just to strengthen their hearts and show how much the organization sympathized and cared for them.
The students were very pleased and the Director of the school in her remarks was pleased with the way young people could run to their rescue. She encouraged us to continue with out efforts to reach out to the young people in all fields.
In the picture, the President of the Organization on the right together with the Organization's Head of Ethics and Integrity, donating to the school and in the center is the Director and two of her students.

The Girls Soccer Outreach

It's a great pride to address HIV/AIDS among the youths through sports activities like Foot Ball.
The Youth Outreach Mission has enrolled the girls in the fight against AIDS by starting up a girls soccer team aimed at addressing the AIDS pandemic in the community. The girls are taught the skills of fighting the virus after every training session.
These same girls also reach out to their fellow girls in the community and share with them the joy of living as a virgin young girl as well as fighting early child hood sex.
These girls love playing football and, above all, sharing this message with their friends. We are very happy to see that these girls see themselves as young role models in their communities and have made vows to avoid any childhood sexual related activities until they get married with the rightful partner.
We have launched a campaign where these girls will start visiting schools to encourage their fellow girls to go in for HIV/AIDS testing.
The pictures show some of the girls at one of their training sessions.
If you are a girl out their, please join your fellow girls in the fight against AIDS and Teenage pregnancies.
Together we shall wipe out AIDS and teenage pregnancies.

The Youth Mega Festival

The Youth outreach took a greater step in the fight against HIV/AIDS among the youths by introducing an annual event, where schools come together to participate in music dance and drama aimed at sensitizing the public on AIDS and stigmatization of the AIDS victims.

This event registered a great attendance from both the schools and the public in it's first year. The event was held on 11/07/2009 at Norah's complex hall in Lugazi, Uganda.
It involved HIV/AIDS testing and counseling aimed at encouraging the youth to develop an HIV/AIDS testing culture with an aim of having a community where HIV/AIDS testing is a common practice that helps the people to know their AIDS status. Over 300 people were tested for HIV/AIDS.

This years theme was "The Youth and HIV/AIDS". This theme registered a great impact on the youths. Next years theme is "Teenage Pregnancy and its Impact on Both Boys and Girls"
We believe that music, dance, drama and poems can reach out and have a great impact among the youths.

This years event attracted many high profile people who included the Director Of the Foundation For Human Rights Initiative Mr. Livingstone Ssewanyana, The Mayor of Lugazi, and other civic and religious leaders.

(1) The first picture shows the youths marching in town to mark the day.
(2) The second picture shows the participants and guests who attended the extravaganza.
(3) The third picture shows students performing a song about AIDS.

Brace yourself for the youth Extravaganza 2009
Watch for details.

The Geregere Well Project

On August 27th, The Youth Outreach Mission took the first step on the renovation of the well in Geregere. The well is in a very poor condition. Hundreds of people collect water from this well everyday. In its current state the well supplies a limited amount of water. The people of Geregere are suffering from this lack of sufficient drinking water.

The well will be constructed in two phases.
1) The well must be cleaned, and the water flow channeled.
2) Much of the existing cement work will need to be removed so that the new pipework can be installed.

The renovation of the well has been co funded by help international through Dillon Ryan Tibbitts and Lugazi town council.
The work was carried out by The Youth Outreach team above.

Soccer Outreach

The Youth Outreach Mission, with a lot of help from the proprietor of the Academy Andrew Lovell, has established a soccer academy for orphans and street children living in Lugazi.

These Children have been picked from the streets of Lugazi and brought together to form an amazing soccer team.

We hold weekly practices and enroll them in local tournaments. This soccer academy is a great platform for these street children to show case their talents. These kids are hard working above all they like sharing and have fun together. We love working with these incredible kids.

In addition to soccer practices, we also take time to teach these kids about HIV/AIDS, malaria and dental hygiene. The dental lessons where initiated by Hillary Morris and Lesley cliff of Help International.

We are determined to help and improve the lives of vulnerable children.
Do you support this noble call to support the Vulnerable children.

Domestic Violance

Many children have been denied their rights and instead they are subjected to torture through heavy work and at the end of the day they get less or no food at all.
They are denied rights to education, food and proper shelter.
In a survey conducted, we realized that most of the tortured children don't get time to play with their colleagues at home since most of their time is spent on doing domestic work at home.
The Youth Outreach mission has put in place a program/ a work plan that is going to address domestic violence starting with individual house holds, especially the families, of the violence victims.
We are going to hold seminars sensitizing people on domestic violence as well as publish booklets, papers and magazines showing the evils of domestic violence in homes. These booklets will also educate the people on children's rights.
Don't be left out in this campaign of helping the children in Uganda know their rights through exposing the evils of domestic violence.

The Dedicated Team

The Youth Outreach is a team of young people devoted to serve and bring a great change in the lives of the people in their communities.
The team is very constructive and innovative, ready and willing to work under all situations to see that they usher in a new generation of young people living positively free from HIV/AIDS infections.
The team is so loving and friendly, some thing that makes them an extremely great team.
'Together we save the nation'

Helping the elderly

The Youth Outreach Mission has realized the fact that the elderly people are a group that is vulnerable and in need of special attention.
Therefore, as a young group of people willing to serve the community and bring about a positive change in the lives of individuals in the community,
we have launched a campaign geared towards providing basic necessities to the elderly and as well, cleaning around their homesteads to ensure that they live in a safe and a clean environment.
In the above pictures, you can see the members of the Youth Outreach Mission donating to Maria Nakibuule and as well constructing a drying rack at her home in Kitigoma a village next to Jinja town.

Development of talents

Development of talent is one of our major goals. We believe that once we put up sports activities like soccer, we can help the youth develop their talents and socialize together. This first picture is of a football tournament that we organized to meet this objective.

We can not only develop the youth talents through sports outreaches but also through music, dance and drama especially in schools. We are glad to promote and develop the talents of Lugazi's youth.

Music Dance and Drama

The youth outreach mission uses music, dance and drama to reach out the young people and the public through sensitization on HIV/AIDS. This is the best way we think the public can be aware of this deadly virus . We have therefore taken the initiative of launching this campaign in schools. This is our starting ground for fighting HIV/AIDS among the young generations at the grassroots.