Organisations

ActionAid International

South Africa

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PostNet Suite No 248
Private Bag x31
Saxonwold 2132
Johannesburg

ActionAid International works in 35 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Through long term development, relief and peace building work, ActionAid aims to secure lasting improvements in people's quality of lives and to support poor and marginalised groups to secure their basic rights to live a more fulfilled and dignified life. ActionAid works in partnership with over 2,000 civil society partners ranging from village-based AIDS support and women’s credit groups to national peasants’ movements and global education campaigns. ActionAid also works with national and local governments in poor countries to ensure that they respect, protect and fulfil their citizens’ human rights. ActionAid’s work reaches 13 million of the world’s poorest people and it employs 1,800 staff - 90% of them from developing countries

Medical Missionaries of Mary

Ireland

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Communications Department
Rosemount Terrace
Booterstown
County Dublin

The Medical Missionaries of Mary organisation was established in 1937 and currently works in 12 countries in Africa and South America. The organisation is composed of 400 women of different nationalities, who live in small multicultural religious communities. The organisation places great emphasis on community based healthcare, but also establishes hospitals and health centres. Safe motherhood and care of young infants is of a primary concern. The organisation is also involved in mental health, control of leprosy and HIV & AIDS. HIV & AIDS programmes involve counselling, testing, peer-to-peer education, advocacy, orphan support and guardian programmes.

Education of Disabled Children Organisation

Uganda

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PO Box 71038
Kampala

Advocacy and lobbying for education of disabled children. Facilitates the provision of assistive devices, counselling of parents and children with disabilities and works to raise public awareness.

Uganda Youths anti Aids Network (UYAAN)

Uganda

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PO Box 11566
Kampala

The organisation carries out general nation wide sensitisation of youth about HIV and AIDS prevention. It also seeks to promote positive attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS and their families in order to minimise the social ills caused by HIV/AIDS. It organises national and international seminars and conferences in order to share and learn. The organisation also provides moral and material support to youths orphaned by HIV/AIDS, while building and supporting community-based efforts.

Agency for the Co-operation and Research into Development (ACORD)

UK

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Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London EC2A 4JX

An international consortium of NGOs (including Oxfam, War on Want) working together for long-term development in Africa. ACORD works in Uganda with the Primary Health Care Association, with AIDS awareness projects in eastern Africa and with a refugee project in Uganda which has a component for working with disabled people. Small documentation centre organised thematically and geographically containing material on development (gender, organisational development/support), pastoralism, agriculture etc. Archives include project reports from 15 African countries. Visit by appointment.

Hope Clinic Lukuli

Uganda

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PO Box 4290
Kampala

Hope Clinic Lukuli is a philanthropic facility which has the purpose of maximising access to accurate, high quality health services. It brings national initiatives to the community at the lowest sustainable price, or free, to reduce financial barriers to health information and care. It is independent of research or faith-based organisations. It employs and develops Ugandan medical staff and treats over 500 patients a month. Management receive no fee or income from the clinic, thereby reducing overhead costs.

Together Against AIDS Positive Association (TAAPA)

Uganda

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P.O. Box 27066
Kampala

This is a local organisation, founded and run by PLWHA and working in the Wakiso District. Its activities include mobilization and sensitization of PLWHA, providing positive-living skills to PLWHA, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, training for the general community, providing skills to create and manage income-generating activities, support for primary school orphans and vulnerable children (school fees and scholastic materials), education on nutrition and palliative care, training community on “memory projects” and paralegal issues (rights and obligations)

Center for Health Adolescents Uganda

Uganda

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P.O Box 36321
Kampala

Center for Health Adolescents Uganda (CHAU) is a registered not for profit organization which aims at reducing youth health problems in Uganda. The Center is committed to assisting both rural and urban youth in becoming healthy and productive. Together with the community, the Center promotes youth health, conducts research that identifies the needs and strengths of young people and designs programs to promote the health and well-being of young people|The fundamental mission is to help adolescents develop healthy adult lifestyles through health promotion, research, preventive primary health and social services, while efficiently utilizing limited resources|To accomplish this mission CHAU has four basic goals: To reduce youth health problems through promotion of health services among young people (14-25 years of age) in areas where health services are poor and inadequate; To advocate and implement interventions which can promote health and ensure respect for the young people; To coordinate community resources to provide psycho-social support, nutrition, and sustainable live hood services for the young people; To provide evidence based information to youth, schools, parents and policy makers on matters concerning youth health.

Women and Children’s Aid for Development (WOCAD) Uganda

Uganda

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P.O. Box 1808
Jinja

Women and children’s aid for development, Uganda was established in November 2013 to help the disadvantaged to reach their full potential by empowering them and providing resources that aid in becoming self reliant and resourceful to their communities.

Women are the mothers of the nation and children are the leaders of tomorrow are our major focus future if we are to achieve development and social transformation in Uganda.

Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) East Africa Regional Office

Kenya

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CBM East Africa Regional Office / CBM Kenya
Ring Road Parklands
P O Box 58004
00200 City Square
Nairobi
Kenya


CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. Based on its Christian values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause, and a consequence, of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all.

CBM's East Africa Regional Office oversees seven countries in the key mandated areas of eye care (including low vision), comprehensive orthopaedics and education of the visually impaired, deaf and deafblind

ADD International

UK

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The Old Church School
Butts Hill
Frome
BA11 1HR

ADD's aim is to support the development of a representative and effective disability movement made up of self help organisations of disabled people, actively promoting the rights of all disabled adults and children for full inclusion in society. It also aims to influence development practices and policy makers to include the rights and needs of disabled people in their work

 

Previously ADD (Action on Disability and Development)

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