Victory Community Gardens
Victory Community Care Services hires land for the purpose of setting up demonstration community gardens which serves as models of what is possible with what is available in local communities. This gardens shows that there are benefits for the individual and the community in working together to alleviate poverty and hunger and increases the capacity of the community to address causes of socio-economic problems. It is believed that this project is the beginning of the development of sustainable local answers to problems of land fragmentation and subsistence farming. The project has been developed to work within the Ugandan Government’s economic and ecological policies; such as to encourage market gardening and to protect soil from erosion and degradation.
The Aims of community gardens are: To be able to provide vegetables and food to the community, to empower the participants with knowledge and skills so that they can increase on the household income in order to reduce poverty disease and ignorance, to teach and guide the participants on the biblical principles which can overcome social economic beliefs that prevent progress and innovation and to bridge the gap between the community and the church.
Akanyijuka
It is therefore the conviction of the leaders of Victory Community Care Services that education in Uganda even under Universal Primary Education has a long way to go because the government has only got resources to support a smaller number of teachers, pupils and other facilities that are not enough for the number of pupils enrolled in schools.
Vision Statement
To construct basic infrastructures of a primary school where children will be educated, and nurtured in order to inculcate values of personal integrity and community responsibility
Aims
(a) To help the economically and socially disadvantaged in our community to acquire holistic education.
(b) To provide primary education for every children in order to achieve 100 percent literacy among the children in our community.
(c) To provide modern scientific and technical education and skills, while preserving and promoting the Christian faith.
(d) To inculcate values of personal integrity and community responsibility.
Provide skills and knowledge that will give assistance to communities whilst at the same time offering and providing spiritual guidance and counseling where appropriate, to help with medium or long term solutions to the causes of poverty, diseases and ignorance.
Providing basic life-sustaining needs to the most severely disadvantaged children in our community where possible.
Objectives
Imparting knowledge and skills so that the children in the community may be able to support themselves economically, politically and socially in their future life.
Helping children develop Christian character and applying Christian principles that will cause them to transform their traditional way of life and belief.
Giving an opportunity the children especially the disadvantaged and venerable children in the community a chance to be educated and skilled.
Training children so that as they grow, they can help the community in fighting against preventable diseases and also empowering them to fight social evils in the community.
Immanuel Drop-in Centre
The problem of child homelessness is steadily increasing in our community. Kabale town has become the main destination point for homeless children. Ever growing number of children arrive here in the hope of finding a better life and end up sleeping on streets. The traditional family structure and support systems for providing care and protection to children, including orphans, have been seriously compromised as a result of the high death rate caused by various diseases and sickness and increasing decline of house hold incomes.
The street children spend time, either eating from the garbage bankers or trying to earn an income and frequently becoming addicted to glue, smoking marijuana taking drugs and getting involved in petty theft. These kids have no shelter, receive no basic education or medical care, are malnourished and are extremely vulnerable to both physical and psychological abuse, especially through forced labour, sex especially young girls and violence in the streets.
Emmanuel Drop in centre has been established to provide, nutritional meals, medical care, a safe environment, and recreation activities can be offered, place where children can get love, happiness, and physical, mental, and emotional nourishment.
Street kids sponsorship
Reintegrating street kids with their families, access to learning tools, empowering them by providing physical and psychological necessities, and sponsoring their education are our next step in our drop in centre.