Health Advocates Frontline Team

HAFT team running a health clinic for mothers and babies

Promoting health-seeking behavior to improve on maternal and infant mortality and child vulnerability

Sustainable Outcomes is a project intended to promote health education, community diagnosis, follow up of immunization services for children and the mothers and linking community members to health centers and hospitals by way of promoting health-seeking behavior.

HAFT members educating villagers on nearby Ebola outbreak

HAFT members educating villagers on nearby Ebola outbreak

HAFT members supporting sanitation and clean water

HAFT members supporting sanitation and clean water

The project is to ensure people get awareness about preventive and curative measures of diseases affecting their community, mostly mothers, infants, and vulnerable children. This is done by seeking timely health care services like attending antenatal care, immunization, sleeping under treated mosquito nets and maintaining proper hygiene and sanitation.

Sensitizing people about HIV scourge in the community where prevalence is about 11% compared to the national prevalence of 7.3%. HIV has mostly affected the youth and young couples. This will include HIV prevention strategies, guidance, and support.

Domestic violence has been on the increase resulting in increased numbers of divorce, child neglect, school dropout of children hence a high number of vulnerable children putting at risk of HIV infection. The project intends to work with local leaders to identify families that are faced with domestic violence by providing mitigation, guidance and counseling services.

 

HAFT members offering health advice to women and children

HAFT members offering health advice to women and children

HAFT team supporting local womens group

HAFT team supporting local womens group

The project is aimed at carrying out community diagnosis by doing a community survey to find out health problems and challenges affecting the community.

The orphans and vulnerable children will be organized and connected to institutions and community safe places for them to socialize and take part in group activities as well as a forum for life-skills training. Many of the OVCs, youth, and caregivers will be trained in income-generating activities for job creation.

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Our Vision

Uplifting Health Standards of Rural Communities in Uganda

Since Apr 2017

Health Education

Kabarole District

Uganda

ABOUT US

HAFT is a NGO/COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION, affiliated with fins medical university (FMU) fort portal nursing school. Bringing together volunteer health workers,  particularly fresh graduates from health colleges, student health workers and retired health workers who wish to give their time to promote health in the rural community.

 

Our OBJECTIVES

To educate the local community about available health services in health centres and hospitals.

Ensure people are aware of preventive and curative measures for diseases affecting their community.

To reduce maternal and infant mortality and mobility rate.

To educate people in the community about the increased rate of HIV/AIDS especially the youths.

To educate people about the effects of domestic violence.

To carry out community diagnosis.

What Drives Us

Our Mission

Working as a team through co-operation with all stakeholders to improve health standards in rural communities.

Save a Life

Why Help?

Community education

Educate people in the community about available health services in their nearby health centres through targeting church services, visiting health centres, visiting schools and carrying out community meeetings.

disease Prevention measures

Ensuring people get awareness about preventative and curative measures like maintaining proper hygiene and sanitation, sleeping under treated mosquito nets and emphasising proper utilization of health services as a curative measure.

REDUCING under 5 mortatility rates

On reducing the mortality and mobility rate of children under five years by educating mothers to take their children for immunisation and carrying out follow up visits.

EDUCATION OF PREGNANT MOTHERS

On health improvement of pregnant mothers through health education on different topics like nutrition and advising them to go for antenatal services for safe delivery.

reducing DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Educating people about the effects of domestic violence through co-operation with local leaders and holding meetings to identify families experiencing domestic violence by providing counselling services.

reducing HIV/AIDS rates

Educating people about the increased rate of HIV/AIDS in the community and how to control its spread by emphasising preventative stratagies like being faithful, use of condoms, abstinance. providing counselling and guidance to infected and un-infected people.