30th July 2024 Share An Opportunity Uganda is a national Christian founded child focused NGO empowering households and communities to fulfill their obligations in child development, education, food security / livelihood, child protection, youth vocational skills and environmental Protection. Share An Opportunity Uganda wishes to dispose of the items below and therefore invites sealed bids...
Category: Publications
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SALOMY RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH WORKER – PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROJECT
Salomy is a 24-year-old mother with 3 children. She says she knew Florence, the CBHW – Community Based Health Worker from the time of pregnancy when she was advised to seek antenatal care. She says she complied with all the visits until the scheduled time for labour. When she approached the CBHW and told her...
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“CYCC program empowered me with life-changing skills”
Gloria Ariso is 12 years old, a grade four pupil and a secretary in Winyo wa tiye children’s club living in Kaberamaido District with her 43-year-old mother. Gloria narrated that before joining Share an Opportunity Uganda’s Children and Youth Community for Change program, she was illiterate about her rights as a child, was not social...
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“We used the available resources to construct our new house”
Through the Church and Community Transformation program, share an Opportunity Uganda with support from Tearfund Netherlands has empowered Baptist church members in Kalungu District with training to use the available resources around them to improve their livelihoods. Namatovu Rose is of such community members. A member of Kigasa Baptist Church in Kyamulibwa Sub-county, Kalungu District...
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Sumin; the speaker
My name is Adeke Sumin; I am 14 years old in P.7 at Barlyech Primary School. I am a member of Pamo Young Stars Children’s Club
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“I am now a responsible child,” Komakech
As we approach a compound with three grass thatched huts and a granary, two of them are closed apart from the one in the middle. At the entrance of the homestead is a tippy tap with water and soap. I and my colleague wash our hands and proceed to the open hut. At the door,...
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Thank you for the soap; SAO
This is 7 year old Flavia. She lives in Kaberamaido and is in Primary one. Before the lockdown, Flavia used to play netball and jump the rope with her friends. However, with the lockdown and the need to stay safe, Flavia no longer plays such games with her friends. “I live with my father, mother,...
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Harriet; The business woman
Two years ago, 38-year-old Harriet Kanagwa was a rural house wife who always waited for her husband to put food on the table. “I neither had a business nor start up income. My greatest challenge was providing food and medical care for my children.” But in 2018 she heard about women groups that were being...
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From school dropout to a budding businessman
Robinson was a young boy when his parents separated. “My mother got married to another man and my father got another wife. So I was sent off to live with my grandmother.” His grandmother who is a subsistence farmer was able to take him to school for a few years and in 2015, he dropped...
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SAO connects young farmers to markets during the lock down
When Emmanuel Odong joined one of the children’s clubs formed by SAO, with support from Help a Child, in Pamo Village Barlyech Parish, in Abim District, he was empowered in a number of income generating activities. “Through Hard work pays Children’s Club, we were taught activities such as saving, different agricultural practices and working as...