About us

Mission :

To Alleviate the causes of poverty and help communities to strive for sustanable and better life through mental, physical support in Education, skills and recovery development programes.

Goal:

To provide safe peaceful environment where peoples rights are respected, the communities are infromed and Empowered to take control of their lives and work together for their Mutual development.

OBJECTIVES

Core values

Kindhearted : In our work we show kindhearted to every person regardless of their faith, Race , colour, , politics or past.
Determined: In all our work, where there is a need we will find a way. We will help those in need even where the circumstances are challenging or considered by others to be intractable.
Effective : Every aspect of our work will benefit those in need. Our work will have clear aims and outcomes that can be measured. We will be good stewards of the money and resources entrusted to us.
Straightforward: We will be transparent as to how we carry out our work. We will report to donors and potential donors in an honest fashion. We will never make a promise that we know cannot be delivered.

Encourage people to be free to live and to act according to their conscience.

A firm human dignity, value, equality and worth for all peopleple.

Our partner

French Embassy to, Uganda
16, Lumumba Avenue
P.O.Box 7212
Kampala
Uganda
TELEPHONE (+256) 414 304 500
EMAIL ambafrance.kampala@diplomatie.gouv.fr

www.ambafrance-ug.org

TARGET BENEFICIARIES
CCEDUC’s beneficiaries having established our geographical remit, we are and shall continue helping the following target groups:
• Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
• Street Children
• Disabled and Chronically Children
• Deprived women

What we do

CCEDUC supports Orphaned, Poor and Exploited children, including disabled children, in particular those living in vulnerable communities. This is achieved through providing, promoting and advancing children’s rights to basic necessities, including education, basic support, legal, nutritional and health care, aimed at sustaining their long-term development. CCEDUC also advocating for womens rights and trains them to aquire skills for self reliance and improve their livelhood status.

All the actions were achieved through community acceptance i.e. by soliciting membership fee and Partnership with volunteers and French Embassy to Uganda.

Our thematic areas:
Our work stretches across the following sectors:
• liveloohod empowerment through agro inut provision to the vulnerable women.
• Education and Vocational Training to the vulnerable children and women
• Nutritional and basic support
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• Service delivery and capital support (building schools, academies, clinics)
• Forest conservation through Tree planting and Energy wood saver oven construction.

Outcomes:
• More women , in our project areas, will be empowered to meet the basic needs of themselves and their children.

*Discriminated and abused children will be empowered through Education to acquire training skills for self reliance.
• Access to essential services, like clean water, education and healthcare, within communities we support will increase.

Millions of trees will be saved through Energy wood stove construction and millions of trees will be planted .

Success story.

• Challenges that the organization faces:.

  • Difficulties to establish an orphanage home and construction of school block for those children who face serious challenges, such as ill-treatment by relatives with whom they live.
  • Lack of health facilities and Educational facitlities at the orphanage.
  • The influx of Sudanese refugees in Yumbe district has caused environmental degradation; Yumbe district has received approximately 800,000 refugees who consume about 2,056 bundles of fire wood per week. Environmental degradation leads tov wide spread of poverty and poverty  habitual cause of environmental degredation.the local people also embarked in cutting down of trees for brick burning, tobacco curing, brewing local beers, charcoal burning and for constructing shelter.
  • In adequate institutional support such as; office desks, office chairs, computers, printers, and book shelves.
  • The NGO also has problem with transport means such as motorcycle, bicycles, and vehicles as the staff covers distance of over 15km on average per day.
  • We only covered 0.5% of Yumbe district while 99.5 remained uncovered due to inadequate fund. We have covered only two Sub County out of 13 sub counties in Yumbe district..
  • High demand for agricultural inputs such as seeds, hoes, slashers, pesticides, and insecticides but due to financial constrain could not allow us to register more vulnerable women to benefit in the project.
  • High demand of energy saver stoves in Yumbe district but the NGO  has inadequate fund to capture more vulnerable women. 
  • Inadequate ordinary sewing machines that are used for training, compared to the modern ones i.e. designing, over locking machines which could improve the quality of clothes and turn them into more marketable clothes.
  • Inadequate funds to identify income generating activities for sustainability
  • Inadequate computer sets and powerful solar panels, which can run a limited number of computers. This is so because the ratio of learners to the computer sets available is  6 : 1

  • Recommendation

• The NGO has a plan of constructing an orphanage centre for street kids, kids without parents and block of class rooms for the vulnerable children to benefit from quality education in the District of Yumbe
• The NGO has plan of implementing agro forestry project in 13 sub counties of Yumbe    district. The project of agro forestry will reduce the issue of environmental degradation in Yumbe district.
•   The NGO need to empower 7,000 farmers through advisory services, farmer institutional development, technology development and linkage to market.
•   The NGO need institutional support such as; 04 office desks, 08 office chairs, 04 desk    top computers, 06 laptops, 02 printers, 02  benches and book self for smooth en the organsational operations
• The NGO need 02 motorcycles (XL 125) and 15 bicycles for both filed work and administrative work. The distance covered by the staff or field officer on average is 15 kilometers per day.
• The NGO has targeted 12,000 families for the energy saver stove project in Yumbe district.