📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Kiyita Family Alliance for Development (KIFAD) is a registered indigenous / local Non-Governmental Organization, established in 2001, registration No: S.5914/5184 which is community based with its Headquarters at Bulabakulu Village, Banda Parish, Mende Sub-county, Wakiso District Uganda.
We concentrate mainly on increasing care and support to people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in order to mitigate the effects of the epidemic. Besides that we aim at strengthening the coping of Orphans Vulnerable Children (OVC) and People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) families to progressively become self-reliant, building the internal capacity of KIFAD for effective and sustainable programme design and implementation and finally, improving access to food among families/households, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, as far as our financial means allows us to.
💼 What the programme involves
• Administrative work
• Fundraising activities - To be part in drawing fundraising avenues/plan to raise money for community activities
• Organizing events, writing reports, Data entry, computer work,
• Monitoring and evaluation of projects.
• Strategy planning (mainly experienced volunteers but also motivated ones), Writing field success stories, lessons learnt, best practices.
• HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT), Field Impact assessments,
• Visiting families and explain the importance of using Family Planning contraceptives.
• Engaging in Youth Friendly services,
• To raise awareness about health, education and sanitation
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation:
A Volunteer may choose to stay at UPA Guest house or in a host family.
Food:
The volunteer prepares their own meals at the UPA guesthouse.There is a shared kitchen with basic kitchen ware including power and gas that is provided by UPA.
When staying the host-family, the volunteer shares meals with the host-family members.
📍 About the location
KIFAD is located only about 10 km from UPA Guest house. A volunteer will use public means and a boda-boda which will cost 6,000 Uganda Shillings to and from the project.
The volunteer can choose how to spend their leisure time since the project is located in close to urban centres and Kampala City.
⚠️ Requirements
The project aims at enhancing and accelerating access to holistic, easily accessible and acceptable life-saving HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services, to socio-economically disadvantaged people, Key Population (KP), Most at Risk Populations (MARPs) living in resource-constrained settings in Wakiso District.
Furthermore, we strive to increase access to HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) as prevention approach as well as promoting early access to the life-saving Antiretroviral treatment by actively linking identified HIV positive patients into care.
Activities Health
• HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT)
• General Treatment of diseases / infections at a clinic.
• Family Planning, Immunization, Laboratory Tests, counseling,
• Health Information Management Systems
• Records Management,
• Referrals into care and support structures
• Follow up and Home visits
Capacity Building
• Financial Literacy Skills Training
• Promotion of Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA)
• Vocational and Apprenticeship Skills Training for youths
• Life skills and parenting.
• Food Security and Nutrition Trainings
• Business and Income Generating Activities Skills Trainings
Strategic Partnerships
• Strengthen Linkages
• Networking and Collaborations
• Lobbying and Advocacy
• Information and Knowledge Sharing
• Communication and Knowledge Management
ℹ️ Additional information
KIFAD is a small organization but may be an interesting organization to work with. It is one organization that can provide a very good learning environment to volunteers because of its commitment to networking with several Civil Society organizations.