Orphan and other vulnerable children OVC those suffering and or living circumstances where they are likely to suffer abuse or deprivation and are therefore in need of care and protection. They may have lost apparent through death or desertion, are more vulnerable and are more likely to miss out on education. Orphans and Vulnerable children have to be given an opportunity of care and love in life,
losing a parent or your relatives is the most painful moment many people have ever experienced in lifetime, it's very hard for the Vulnerable children to overcome their life challenges VISION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT(VFSD) is so keen to rise up hand onto this matter. VFSD REPORT SUMMARY
VFSD says participating in child rights encompass children freedom to express opinions, to have a say in matters affecting their own lives to join associations and to assemble peacefully. As their capacities develop, children should have increased opportunity in the activities of society, in the preparation for adulthood. CHALLENGES AND FINDS OF VUNERABILITY IN UGANDA
Effects of deprivation in Vulnerability can be irreversible and the impact of child poverty can last a lifetime, with vulnerability is likely to become poor during their adulthood and have poor children themselves reinforce the intergeneration cycle of poverty in addition poverty is one the root cause of violence, exploitation abuse and neglect of children, such as child labor trafficking sexual exploitation and child marriage. With close to 60% of the population below 18years of age, over 75% below the age of 35 years our children cognitive development represents Uganda’s greatest natural resource. Moreover, Uganda’s vision to become middle –income country by 2040 remains highly contingent upon our collective ability to safeguard children’s right to contribute to national development. Adjusting to cohort-specific lens, the critical groups are shown to be those in early childhood 0-8 and adolescent girls 10-18. Children aged 0-8 years are seen to be especially vulnerable and face arrange of regional, income and gender-related inequalities. While adolescents especially girls face multiple vulnerabilities from disempowerment at the individual, household and community levels. Many of the factors contributing to this situation have been shown to persistent or worsening despite attempts at technical fixes. Attention towards behavioral (social norm) changes that are integrated with economic strengthening components is considered a potentially fruitful area for further exploration. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa. The frightening scale of orphaned children has particularly been linked to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and high poverty rates that has devastated the continent since the late 1980s (UNAIDS, UNICEF, & USAID, 2004). Despite the fact that antiretroviral drugs are finally entering the African continent, we are still far from seeing the peak of the orphan challenge. According to UNICEF, Uganda has 2.5 million orphans. Of that number, 1.2 million are orphaned by AIDS. Today in Uganda children’s rights to protection continues to be a critical challenge given that 8% of the children are critically vulnerable and 43% are moderately vulnerable (MoGLSD,011 QND UBOS 2014) still only 60% of children are registered within a year of birth (UNICEF Uganda 2015) and the government spending on child protection is marginal. the main areas of intervention are considered to be strengthening of knowledge, capacity and interventions that address social norms, such as child marriage cross-sectoral engagement in child protection law enforcement and improving the national strategy to eliminate child labor
CORE RIGHTS AND SECTOR FOCUS FOR ORPHANS
Poverty affects people of all ages, but children are the single most affected group. Children living in poverty experience deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability, and also face multidimensional circumstances that create lifelong difficulties in gaining access to their basic rights. Poverty also denies children their rights and deprives them of their physical, psychological and intellectual development. executive summary
Children’s rights are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), to which Uganda is a signatory, and are also recognised in the Constitution of Uganda and the Children Act. However, despite sustained and substantial reductions in the proportion of Ugandans living below the poverty line over the past two decades, and not withstanding significant progress in improving the lives of children, 55% of children under the age of five years are deprived of two or more of their rights (MoGLSD et al., 2014). CORE RIGHTS AND SECTOR FOCUS FOR ORPHANS
Poverty affects people of all ages, but children are the single most affected group. However, despite sustained and substantial reductions in the
proportion of Ugandans living below the poverty line over the past two decades, and not withstanding significant progress in improving the lives of children, 55% of children under the age of five years are deprived of two or more of their rights (MoGLSD et al., 2014). VFSD ORPHANAGE Objectives
VFSD focus on the rising proportion of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) attending school in our slum communities of Kawempe division from 10% – 50% by the year 2030 and to investigate the factors influencing OVC access to education among this population. INTERVENTION OF VFSD IS TO BRING CHANGE
The substantial burden of work needed is to have consequences for orphans’ schooling; and their good enrolment rates, orphans tending school on daily basis, to perform good and to drop out of bad moral more often than other people in their families. Adequate feeding, dress/uniform and given them scholastic materials on the educational opportunities of orphans, teachers’ attention to the orphans should be very visible to all orphans’ scenario in schools by reporting orphans with needs for schooling to Organization. We should hasten to say that it will be our task to make changes in children’s lives. Vision for sustainable development (VFSD) implore all our partners in the promotion and protection of children’s rights to use this report to inform their interventions in order to improve the wellbeing of all children in Uganda. Special attention should be addressed to implement education forum.
