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Young And Powerful Initiative Project (YAPI)
MISSION
To provide qualitative and integrated community based services under skilled and good management that focuses on disadvantaged and vulnerable groups through proper supervision and monitoring systems.VISION
To improve services for the young people's reproductive health.PROBLEM STATEMENT
It is evident that most of the communities of Kasese have limited utilization and accessibility to health services which has greatly put their lives at risk especially for people with health conditions that need specialized medical attention.For instance, in Kasese District, 74% of childbirths take place in people's homes and only 26% take place in a health facility. The number of adolescent pregnancies is predominantly high where by 47% will have had at least one pregnancy at the age of 16 years, putting them at high risk of getting obstetric fistula.
A long-standing culture of early marriages within the community of Kasese has led to the increase of young girls getting early pregnancies.
HISTORY
South Rwenzori Diocese shares the same political and geographical boundaries of the Kasese District. This area is found in the western side of Uganda on the slopes of Mount Rwenzori along the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo border. The 2002 population of the Kasese District is about 533,000, compared to the 1980 population of 277,000. The ratio of M:F population is 260,000:273,000.For the last twenty years, the Diocese has established itself as the major provider of health services, currently offering over 47% of the District health services.
The Diocese has implemented multi-sectoral rural development programmes since 1990, targeting the entire District. With funding from the Norwegian Church Aid, Planning Development and Rehabilitation (PDR), Pathfinder International, CARE, and Save the Children in Uganda, the Diocese has been able to build a strong platform for community interventions. In May of 1996, with Pathfinder funds, the Diocese initiated the Kasese Family Health Project, and this ran from May 1996 to June 2000.
This was followed by the African Youth Alliance (AYA) Programme that led to the birth of the 'Young and Powerful Initiative' Project, which aimed at improving adolescent sexual reproductive health. The AYA Programme ended in October 2004, and in March 2005, CARE International supported 'Young and Powerful Initiative' to continue with Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) services under Promotion of Safer Choices for Adolescents (ProSCAd).
Then, still through Save the Children in Uganda (SCIU), South
Rwenzori Diocese was able to access Community Resilience & Dialogue
(CRD) funds to implement care and support to people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWHAS).
PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS INVOLVED
Below are photographs taken in the field. Click on the photos for enlarged pictures.
| This is Stella, a little four year old girl with AIDS. She was picked up the day the members of the Diocesan office attended her mother's funeral. Her father had died two years previously of AIDS. |
| These people are HIV positive and have formed an association for mutual support. |
| The following two photos are of HIV-positive children who have lost at least one parent from AIDS. | |
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