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Organization Name: 
pearl childcare initiatives
Located In: 
kampala, Uganda
Operates In: 
uganda
Areas of Focus: 
  • Youth Development & Education
Type of Org: 
charity
Contact Person: 
sewaalinte yusuf
Phone: 
+256712921408
Website: 
www.freetocharities.org.uk/pcciuganda
 
Our Mission: 
Its activities are mainly directed to equip orphaned and vulnerable children and their families with adequate life skills, increase access to community care systems, basic social services and child friendly services to give them the opportunity to realize their full potential through improved quality of life.

What We Do: 
Educational and skills development
PCCI endeavors to make education for the OVC's a priority and possible to these children. Income generating projects like piggery, poultry, goat rearing, etc are aimed at providing income for school fees and other scholastic materials necessary. This is supplemented by other basic activities like support publications, school outreaches/ visit, Teacher apprentice trainings to equip teachers with new skills to pass on to pupils, as well as visual and audio support/broadcasting.



HIV/Aids sensitization and awareness
HIV/Aids prevalence is still high though the level of sensitization has increased. In a nutshell, the level of prevalence among children is increasing. This is as a result of increased children involved in sex trade for a living, mother to child infections, low sensitization among children since it is a taboo to carry out sex education among children, etc. This has resulted into increased dropouts from schools as children drop out to look after their sick relatives, increased HIV/Aids infection and death among children, etc. It is therefore of paramount importance that children and the entire community are involved in HIV/Aids prevention campaigns, at school, homes and in the community, through child friendly counseling, behavioral training, awareness messages at schools and general sensitization of the community.



Lobby and advocacy
Lobbying and advocating for children's rights is a key aspect in the struggle for children's emancipation. Being submissive, children are subjected to torture, sexual objects, unconsensual marriages, a lot more. PCCI therefore found it important to advocate and fight for children's rights. This is done through local and legal courts and tries to provide a for a through which children can air out their views to the community and local leaders as well as policy makers, on local radio stations.



Child development
Child development entails the promotion and monitoring of children's basic welfare, as well as cognitive and psychosocial development. Because we are dealing with orphaned and other vulnerable children, most of them live a life of total despair with nothing to eat nor drink and no body is bothered anyway. This is made worse by the deteriorating socio-economic status of the communities around them. The starting point therefore is to ensure food security, health, cognitive and psychosocial stimulation and putting in place social support mechanisms to ensure holistic child development.



Community development
Community development activities to empower the communities support the psychosocial development of the children. Among them include, economic empowerment through training and startup of small income generating projects, Agricultural input support and training to ensure food security and other related activities.



Volunteer exchange
PCCI recruits both local and international volunteers to work hand in hand with the organization, share and exchange knowledge and ideas and perform specific tasks to achieve the set objectives.

 
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