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HOPE FOR THE VULNERABLE PROJECT (HOVA)

HOVA is an indigenous Christian based organization formed by a heartfelt preacher named Pr. Lawrence Savio Kizito in 2017 under Revival Christian Ministries Africa. What started out small, has developed into a big ministry encompassing various projects. The thought to start this ministry, was after the founder KIZITO Lawrence, went through the agony growing a parentless child after all his parents summed to HIV/AIDS in 1997 leaving him at only the age of 09. He then meandered around the village for support up to the streets of Kampala the Uganda capital city. Joined by fell kids, they could thrive on left overs thrown in waste bins. Later Kizito remembered his father’s house and moved back to the village with three fellow homeless young boys and started staying in the named house. Immediately Kizito realized God’s calling of doing his work by taking care of both motherless and fatherless kids. It was at this moment when he started moving around his village gathering all homeless kids and would barely wish to find any child facing what he went through as a child. He had been distributed by the plight of many children in his community of Kitavujja, he had been neglected, abandoned, and had nowhere to go for help. So he created a space in their home to share with the other parentless children, Lawrence could hardly bare it seeing children suffer from the consequences of losing their parents. This is where he stepped out in faith to advocate for the needs of vulnerable children and families in the above community. He really had nothing but only this small house left by his parents this is when he started with five orphans abandoned by guardians. We are really blessed that what started out a small home, God has used it to restore hope to hundreds of hopeless children and families, create opportunities to the many vulnerable youth and adolescents and the very elderly. Since its inception, HOVA has under gone numerous transformation, including increased number of beneficiaries where we now have a total of 35 orphaned and abandoned children housed in our home, 65 vulnerable children supported from their homes, 32 vulnerable girls supported for vocational skills and 15 elders being supported. Our focus is extending the presence of God to the hopeless.

OBJECTIVES:

- To improve the quality of life of children and households in needy conditions as benchmark for evangelism, through education support, medical support etc.

-To increase access to basic necessities like food, clothing, treatment, shelter and clean and safe drinking water extra.

-To instill evangelism and priesthood attitudes in children and households in the bid to extend this ministry to the far ends of the world.

- To provide psycho-social support interventions to children and households whose rights have been violated especially the girl child.

- To work with communities to end issues of gender based violence and promote environmental protection activities.

- To demonstrate the need for households and children to have income generating activities through mentorships and on site trainings.

- To promote food security avenues in families so as to reduce hunger .

-To demonstrate the need for children and families to respond to concerns of climatic change through environmental protection activities.

-To identify and help to grow talents in children.

CHALLENGES

> Inadequate space, as we talk now, our home has 35 children all housed in a two roomed building. This means therefore means we cannot put beds their but instead put mattresses on the ground to create space for all of them. However, this is also attributed to the ever increasing numbers of children.

> Inadequate basic necessities like food and clothes as a ministry we have no land and there cannot grow our own food and at times kids hardly eat anything. For example on a weekly basis, we have to spend $100 on food only.

> Inability to pay for medical bills; most times kids follow sick and bills are so high for us to afford. For example just of recent we lost an 8year old girl by the names of cissy out of a heart inflammatory disease because we could not pay $ 1500 for her surgery.

> Ever increasing number of children. This is really a challenge that even affects our planning. Many children were mostly abandoned during the Covid-19 lockdown and joined our home.

> Inaccessibility to safe drinking water. In our community accessing water, is a big problem, our children have to move more than 6km to access water. A month ago we received a case of 12year girl who the ministry supports from her home raped while they went to collect water. Kids keep suffering from numerous water borne diseases.

> Lack of enough matrasses, blankets and other bedding requirements.

> Lack of transport; many times we are called to address children issues but we hardly reach their in time because we have to go on foot.

> Irresponsive legal structures to address children issues. Many times children are abused and we struggle taking them for legal redress but children fail to access justice.

> Lack of a camera, laptop and a good smart phone for record keeping and sharing our interventions and accountabilities with brothers and sisters from the diaspora.

> Inability to support the education of all identified children and facilitating vocational skills trainings for the out of schools for example on average a child will need up to $200 to stay in school with a uniform and other requirements.

>Very old and physically unable persons who really need a lot of attention like medical support.

>We are also challenged by the issue of children abandoned by both parents and perpetrators of sexual violence in fear of responsibilities. Pregnant young girls are so susceptible to numerous diseases and psychological issues that call for extra care and love. In Uganda a child is cursed and denied parental responsibility just for getting pregnant while still in the hands of her parents.

ASK FROM BROTHERS AND SISTERS

*We call up on brothers and sisters from the diaspora to sponsor the livelihood of these needy and vulnerable children, adolescents and families.

*We request for support to build a bigger home that can accommodate at least 100 kids so that they can sleep in a fair environment

*We request for funds to buy food so that our kids do not sleep empty stomached.

*We also request for funds to facilitate the education of children identified vulnerable.

*We still urge brothers and sisters to join us facilitate medical care for the sick children.

*We also request for support to procure land so that we can grow our own food and fight hunger.

*We also need safe water; our plan is to harvest rain water by procuring a water tank.

*We also hope to do the same for all homes with supported children.

*We request you all to facilitate all interventions tailored towards helping communities generate enough income so as to reduce poverty that normally result into abandonment of children.

*We call up on the world to end the violation of the rights of the minority like children, girls, women, the disabled and those with chronic illnesses.

*We also request you to always put your hands together and continuously pray for us to grow in spirit and embrace the power of the living God.

CONCUSSION:

we wish to thank all those brothers and sisters who have given a hand to support needy communities from where ever you are. May the Lord reward you abundantly, we continue to pray for you and this ministry for greater achievements that will extremely exhibit the God that we believe in and talk about.

VISION & MISSION

VISION

A transformed society with responsible homes and households that can take care of themselves using locally available resources as a fundamental benchmark for evangelism of the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We really dream of a day when human differences shall only be used to declare the power of God, when no child shall need to be institutionalized and all vulnerable populations are given the un conditional love and support needed. The idea behind this mission is to depict Jesus Christ by extending love, care, listening and supporting vulnerable communities.

MISSION

To improve the quality of life of children, adolescents, youth and households in poor living conditions to better themselves through relief requirements like clothing, shelter, food, safe drinking water and environment protection activities, education support,treatment support for the sick, income generating activities for care givers and the young people themselves, career guidance forums, sanitary facilities, community based vocational skilling and working with communities to end the violation children rights and gender based violence cases through soliciting of supportive resources from sisters and brothers in Christ.

We exist to raise the next generation of Christians that are extremely bonded to ethics and values of Jesus Christ looking at God as the alpha and the omega

ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION

1. Providing relief requirements like, food, clothing, medical care, rehabilitation services, shelter, drinking water and sanitation facilities.

2. Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all households within our reach as a pillar of household growth social spiritual and economic development.

3. Conducting weekly household visits to have spiritual encouragement, identify any

constraints that may affect the ministries’ intervention.

4. Increasing access to safe drinking water through; provision of household water tanks,

community bore holes and working together with communities to promote hygiene and sanitation through construction of latrines, kitchens and drying racks for utensils for the needy households.

5. Conducting various community based competitions to help identify and support talent growth for those picked out.

6. Support and promote community based environment protection innovations geared towards reducing the risks of climatic change.

7. Working with community based structures to end gender based violence and the violation of children’s rights.

8. Advocating for protection of human rights at all levels to embrace God’s love for humanity.

9. Continue having surveys to identify more homes and children in need of support .

10. Conducting community engagement forums to support the community address child protection issues.

ACHIEVEMENTS

@. Working together with brothers and sister in Christ from the diaspora, we are blessed to have achieved commendable work and we praise God very much.

@. Taken care of many orphans and abandoned children. These are now thriving well academically through our support and spiritual guidance.

@. Promoting the idea of foster parenthood in our communities to reduce the number of street children rustling from loss of parents most especially due to HIV/AIDS.

@. Advocating for children rights to minimize the violation of rights of children. This is grounded from one of our values of respect for human dignity. Under this we have facilitated so many cases of rape, defilement, physical abuse and other sorts of violation. We are now focusing on advocating for the rights of dis abled children and those with chronic illnesses in institutions but also a girl child.

@. In terms of nutrition and food security, we have helped homes have back yard gardens with various vegetables.

@. We have also supported various communities realize the need for proper nurturing and upbringing of children using Christian values adopted from the bible and an adopted curriculum based intervention called “SINOVUYO” which means joy in a home from a south African writer.

@. Through economic and skills empowerment; we have been blessed to have facilitated vocational skills trainings for 32 vulnerable girls in our community. Under this we have 8 doing motorcycle mechanics, 8 doing welding and metal fabrication works, 9 doing hair dressing and cosmetology and 7 doing tailoring and fashion designing. This is through locally available artisans. In addition we supported financial literacy training for communities and started various savings and loans association to minimize poverty and hence vulnerability levels.

@. Supported various orphaned and vulnerable children access education through provision school fees and other requirements.

@. We cannot forget to note the fact that at every moment we reach a hand to someone, we intensify the calling of God and the need for spiritual growth by all individuals.