The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)

Organization Name: The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)

Location: Masaka Setting: Urban/Rural Established: 1998 Staff: 50

 

Subject Areas

Health: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Orphans, Public Health, Nutrition, High-Risk Behavior, Prevention Education

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Famine and Food Security

Environment: Resources, Conservation, Environmental Health, Environmental Education, Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

Microenterprise: Small Business Management, Microcredit, Micro-Lending, Strategic Management

 

Organization Objectives

The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) strives to improve the lives of HIV-infected or -affected persons as part of the larger effort to address the world’s AIDS pandemic. It promotes prevention, hope restoration, and general support physically and emotionally to its clients. Its goals are to:

  • Offer counseling to empower infected/affected persons to make informed decisions on all societal levels: individual, family, community, national, and international
  • Improve the quality of life and facilitate the balance between rights and responsibilities
  • Provide early diagnoses to clients so they can seek help and live positively
  • Facilitate care of infected/affected persons
  • Mobilize community to utilize resources to reduce stigmas about HIV/AIDS
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Masaka Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre (MVRC)

Masaka Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre (MVRC)

Location:Masaka, Uganda Setting: Rural Established: 2000 Staff: 10

Organization Overview:

Throughout Uganda, there is a detrimental stigma associated with physical and mental disabilities. Parents of children born with these disabilities often consider them to be an embarrassment to the family and think of them as “useless.” Masaka Vocational Rehabilitation Center(MVRC) has been working since the year 2000 to empower these disabled people with valuable vocational skills and thus reverse the stigma associated with disability. MVRC teaches its clients valuable skills such as sewing, weaving, carpentry, and leather working. MVRC then sells the products of this instruction such as dolls, clothing, tables, chairs, sandals, belts, etc. to sustain its teaching activities. MVRC’s clients are also taught about basic business skills and upon graduating from MVRC, many of its clients have started very successful businesses based upon the training they have received.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Vocational training, civic talks, Functional Adult Literacy (FAL)
Community Development: Train students and parents to make group projects
Environment and Agriculture Advocate for the government to make public places accessible for people with disabilities

Organization Objectives:
The Masaka Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre (MVRC) aims to assist mentally and physically handicapped youths aged 15 to 25 to learn a vocational skill so that they may be able to support themselves economically. Their Mission is to bring out ability for the economic and social integration of young people with disabilities. The Centre’s motto is “Ability from disability”. Their services are vocational skills in carpentry, computer studies, screen printing, leather work and mental works. MVRC’s specific objectives are to:
• Empower disabled youth to empower themselves
• Provide quality training in vocational programs
• Teach valuable life skills so that students can integrate into society

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Masaka Microfinance Cooperative and Development Trust Ltd. - Masaka

Masaka Microfinance Cooperative and Development Trust Ltd

Location: Nyendo Setting: Urban Established: 1999 Staff: 23

 

Subject Areas

Microfinance: Community Financial Institutions, Managing Financial Resources, Lending Groups, Microcredit, Micro-Lending, Entrepreneurship, Business and the Environment, Business Development, Agribusiness

 

Organization Objectives

The Masaka Microfinance Cooperative and Development Trust is an organization created for the people of Masaka District and its surrounding area who are freely willing to work together to:

  • Save for development
  • Promote accountability, trust, and unity
  • Encourage hard work among members
  • Borrow for development
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Organization for Development Education (UNNATI)

Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 1990 Staff: 25

Subject Areas

Community Development: Social responsibility, Community empowerment, Infrastructure development
Environment/Appropriate Technology: Water, Natural resource management
Human Rights: Poverty, equality and social Justice, Forced migration
Women's Empowerment: Advocacy and rights, Capacity building

Organization Objectives

UNNATI aims to create an inclusive society where all stakeholders, particularly the vulnerable dalits ("Untouchables"), participate with full empowerment and gain equal access to and control over services, resources, and institutions. Its goals are to:

  • To advocate for oppressed groups while mobilizing and empowering them to take equal partnership in and control of civic and social affairs.
  • To promote grassroots democratic participation and strengthen local governance institutes and leadership.
  • To implement a community-based approach in water management in the project districts, and at the state and national level.
  • To assist communities in designing disaster preparation and mitigation strategies to lessen the impact of natural disasters in vulnerable areas.
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The School of Desert Sciences (SDS)

Location: Jodhpur Setting: Urban Established: 1983 Staff: 5

Location: Jodhpur Setting: Urban Established: 1983 Staff: 5

 

Subject Areas

Environment: Conservation, Environmental Health, Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

Community Development: Social Responsibility, Famine and Food Security

Human Rights: Poverty, Environmental Law, Community Action

 

Organization Objectives

The School of Desert Sciences (SDS) aims to research, document, and disseminate information about environmental and social development issues of the Thar Desert region. Its goals to:

  • Conduct case studies, impact assessments, or research projects pertaining to environmental issues, desert livelihoods, natural resource management, human rights, public health, child labor, or women's empowerment
  • Observe and document desert work
  • Create an up-to-date publication of desert dweller objectives, goals, and activities
  • Create printed and computerized materials for greater dissemination of information on target areas
Location: Jodhpur Setting: Urban Established: 1983 Staff: 5

Location: Jodhpur Setting: Urban Established: 1983 Staff: 5

 

Subject Areas

Environment: Conservation, Environmental Health, Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

Community Development: Social Responsibility, Famine and Food Security

Human Rights: Poverty, Environmental Law, Community Action

 

Organization Objectives

The School of Desert Sciences (SDS) aims to research, document, and disseminate information about environmental and social development issues of the Thar Desert region. Its goals to:

  • Conduct case studies, impact assessments, or research projects pertaining to environmental issues, desert livelihoods, natural resource management, human rights, public health, child labor, or women's empowerment
  • Observe and document desert work
  • Create an up-to-date publication of desert dweller objectives, goals, and activities
  • Create printed and computerized materials for greater dissemination of information on target areas

Jodhpur Network of People Living with HIV Sansthan (JNP+)

Organization Name:

Location: Jodhpur Setting: Urban Established: 2002 (Jodhpur branch) Staff: 5

 

Subject Areas

Health: HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Social Work and mental health, Reproductive health and maternity care

Youth and Education: Advocacy and Rights, Building cooperatives, Women’s Entrepreneurship

Women's Empowerment: Psychosocial Support for HIV/AIDS-Affected Women

 

Organization Objectives

Jodhpur Network of People Living with HIV Sansthan (JNP+) has been waging a long and intensive struggle against fear, ignorance, prejudice and despair born out of the epidemic and stands to represent courage, insight, acceptance and hope to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). The organization’s goals are:

  • To create an enabling environment for PLHA that emphasizes acceptance and life quality improvement, especially for women and children.
  • To address denial, stigma, and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS through advocacy.
  • To link PLHA with local hospitals and clinics dealing with HIV/AIDS to ensure accessibility, affordability, and availability of treatment and counseling.
  • To provide psychosocial support to PLHA and their families.
  • To offer practical assistance to PLHA pertaining to treatment regimes, appropriate nutrition and health care.
  • To educate and raise community awareness on the transmission of HIV/AIDS, prevention, social stigmas relating to HIV/AIDS, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
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Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF)

Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 2002 Staff: 100

Subject Areas

Community Development: Community empowerment, Community mobilization/organization
Environment: Natural resource management, Water
Health: Water and sanitation
Human Rights: Advocacy of water rights issues
Women's Empowerment: Building cooperatives, Women’s entrepreneurship

Organization Objectives

JBF exists to provide an enabling environment in which the desert communities of the Marwar region can access adequate drinking water for humans and animals within the constraints of environmental equilibrium by leveraging traditional knowledge and appropriate technology; facilitating village institutions of collective wisdom and building local capacities for community mobilization in an atmosphere of transparency, participation and accountability, through a process of networking and advocacy.

JBFs four main objectives are:
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CYORF Foundation for Community Development

Location: Jinja Setting: Rural Established: 2000

Location: Jinja Setting: Rural Established: 2000

 

Subject Areas

Microenterprise: Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship

Health: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Public Health, Nutrition, Social Work

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Social Work

Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies, Reproductive Rights, Counseling

Youth and Education: Child and Adolescent Development, Counseling, Social Development, Teaching

 

Organization Objectives

CYORF’s mission is to meet the physical, educational, and emotional needs of orphaned children, widows, and individuals living on welfare or in poverty. It empowers and builds the capacity of its clients to enable them to be self reliant. CYORF’s goals are to:

  • Increase access to free education for orphans in Uganda
  • Provide a stable and supportive environment for children orphaned by AIDS and civil war so they can access educational and vocational opportunities
  • Empower individuals through vocational training and enterprise development
  • Promote economic empowerment of women and youth through training in entrepreneurship, business, leadership, and vocational skills
  • Implement HIV/AIDS education and prevention
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Solidarity with Women in Distress (SOLWODI) - Mombasa

Location: Mombasa Setting: Urban Established: 1985

Location: Mombasa Setting: Urban Established: 1985

 

Subject Areas

Health: HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, High-Risk Behavior

Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies, Counseling

Microfinance: Entrepreneurship

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development

 

Organization Objectives

Solidarity with Women in Distress (SOLWODI) provides support to commercial sex workers and at-risk girls in the Kenyan coastal towns of Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, and Malindi. Its goals are to:

  • Identify and provide support and rehabilitation for women in the commercial sex industry
  • Empower female sex workers to improve their own lives through peer education, health services, counseling, and alternative livelihood support
  • Educate communities about the dangers of commercial sex work
  • Lobby for support from the government and hotel industry with the aim of implementing laws against child sex abuse
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Western Education Advocacy and Empowerment Program (WEAEP) - Kakamega

Location: Kakamega Setting: Urban Established: 2003 Staff: 7

Location: Kakamega Setting: Urban Established: 2003 Staff: 7

 

Subject Areas

Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies

Human Rights: Child Advocacy

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development

Microfinance: Savings, Microcredit, Small Business Management

 

Organization Objectives

The Western Education Advocacy and Empowerment Program (WEAEP) facilitates a participatory approach in the implementation of proposed development solutions to include the marginalized groups of society, especially women, girls, and vulnerable children. Its goals are to:

  • Empower women by improving their socioeconomic status and rights-based advocacy
  • Promote and protect the rights of orphans and vulnerable children
  • Reintegrate street children into society
  • Provide and support vocational training and skills acquisition
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