The
major activities carried out during the past few years
to fulfill the organisations objectives include:
- Since
1999 SMAU has worked in five sub-counties of Wakiso
District namely: Entebbe Municipal Council, Katabi,
Ssisa, Namayumba, Masulita sub counties. The organization
has been targeting stakeholders like children, youth
teachers, local leaders, religious leaders, police
and health providers sensitizing them on children
rights and responsibilities, abuse and neglect as
well as causes and effects of child parenthood;
- SMAU
has also trained them to be club facilitators, child
advocates and peer educators. It has also worked with
children both in school and out of school, sensitizing
them on their rights and responsibilities, on abuse
and neglect, and child parenthood as well as training
them in reproductive health and rights;
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SMAU has facilitated schools in formation of child
rights clubs and peer discussion groups
- It
has worked with 32 primary schools and 29 secondary
schools in the seven years, reaching over 6000 school
children and 2000 out of school children;
- Since
1995 SMAU has trained over 500 child mothers who have
come to the center in multiple practical skills and
life skills to empower them and enable them to earn
a living and be able to look after their children;
- SMAU
has been able to counsel over 330 cases of other vulnerable
children who call at the center and also formed 10
community based groups to cater for vulnerable youth
and child parents;
- SMAU
has reached the rest of the country through radio
programs over 30 programs and 150 info-sports on five
different stations; Radio Simba, Central Broadcasting
Service, Radio One, Voice of Toro Radio Phaida, Top
Radio, Prime Radio, and Capital Radio (in five different
languages i.e. English, Luganda, Lunyoro, Rutoro,
and Luo) discussing issues of child-parenthood, children
rights, reproductive health and rights and parenting
skills; appealing to parents to give their daughters
a second chance to continue with education after delivery;
- SMAU
has established 3 youth friendly outreach centers
where young people come for information sharing on
issues of HIV/AIDS, life skills, adolescent reproductive
health and Recreation activities. To-date over 1500
young people and children have accessed and utilized
these centers;
- SMAU
has worked with 23 youth and women groups to sensitize
communities on the new HIV/AIDS interventions like
PMTCT, VCT and ARVS through music, dance and drama
and seminars;
- A
total of 44 orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)
have been equipped with vocational skills in tailoring,
cookery, hairdressing, carpentry, welding, mechanics,
agriculture, nutrition and life skills to enable them
create employment or be employed;
- Over
2000 in-school children have been trained in life
skills to enhance their response to HIV/AIDS;
- SMAU
was the agent NGO that implemented the Nutrition and
Early Childhood Development program in Entebbe Division
B Sub County. This program is a government program
ran by Ministry of Health and sponsored by World Bank
at district level to the sub county;
- During
the second phase of the Advocacy and Support Program
for child mothers (2002-2005) SMAU replicated its
services to three more communities of Masulita, Namayumba
and Katabi sub-counties;
- In
2004-2005 SMAU has been privileged to implement the
Global Fund HIV/AIDS project in Wakiso distict.
- In 2006-2008, SMAU extended to Nakaseke district project "Women and child empowerment and Human rights promotion project" in the sub-counties of Semuto and kapeka
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