Pearl Foundation For Human Rights and Development Initiative
May 26 ·
NATURE OF PEARL FOUNDATION’S INTERVENTION
1 –Presenting of the adopted decision to limit our geographical and operational orientation to Kampala and Wakiso districts and to Human Rights education and awareness promotion ( CIVIC EDUCATION) revolving around the formation and furthering of the Community groups and group Funds ( hu
man rights clubs) that have characteristics of the Buganda Kingdom and the Pentecostal churches funds.This is because human rights violation is as a result of poverty and rugged individualism. To be presented by Innocent Kater Jr.
2---Presentation of the copy of the Foundation Memorandum and Articles of Association and a copy of the Certificate of incorporation to Advocate Nicholas Opiyo by all Members of the Foundation.
3—Reactions by Advocate Nicholas Opiyo and answers by the members of the Foundation. PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMS:
Advocate, as we step over the threshold of Chapter Four, a cordial, warm, and friendly welcoming smile is the established traditional hallmark that bestows upon us an ambience and a feeling of belonging here as honored guests. If we reluctantly bid you farewell, then you should know that our stay always is memorable in our lives as Pearl Foundation. We followed your indispensable advice and registered the Foundation as a Company limited by guarantee. We have come here today clutching a sheath of certified Memorandum and Articles of Association and a Certificate of Incorporation and a full comprehensive curriculum for our newly adopted Human Rights Education and Awareness Promotion Program. This will be a mobile human rights clinic in the communities that will grant us permission to cooperate with them. In order to achieve the above objective of providing the leadership to awaken the national conscience to begin to acknowledge the deep longing for a different kind of world that still lies buried in the human heart. We have put into consideration the following tangible approaches to key human rights and development promotion in our communities.
1—The renaissance of the right to education.
2---Public health and sanitation awakening
3---Climate Change prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation.
4---Sexual and gender based violence and women’s health prevention and promotion.
5—The right to own property through registration of titles and the right of orphans and widows to own property where a family head dies and leaves no will.
6--- The right to life through our right to life saving crusade by encouraging Ugandans to test blood for HIV/AIDS and also to donate blood to save lives.
7---The right to access information and also the right of high school students in candidate classes to access UNEB questions answers through owning and accessing internet compatible gargets as phones, iphones, iPods /pads ,laptops according to the opulent capacity of individual students to enhance high academic performances in UNEB since all the questions are already answered on the Internet.
8—the need to interpret the constitution into major languages and if possible into language dialects to enable to spread of the constitution and human rights awareness among the illiterate communities in Uganda. In order to achieve the above set objectives, we request the permission of the already gathered communities as churches, schools, prisons, barracks, and local communities and work with their leaders serving as a bridge and seeking to promote, provide, and protect human rights and development in those particular communities. Our work evolves and revolves around the formation and furthering of the Human Rights Clubs or Community Groups and Group Funds ( CGGF) with characteristics of a typical homogeneous, robust, healthy, and fellowshipping Buganda Kingdom Etofali(brick) Fund under the Prime Minister Counsel Charles Peter Mayiga and the Synagogue Church Fund and other Pentecostal Churches Funds that have seen massive developments of these communities with no government’s intervention. They come this far because their leaders have relentlessly and meticulously provided and infused the leadership to awaken their masses conscience to begin acknowledge the deep longing for a different kind of world that was still lying buried in their hearts. If these communities can grow to exercise such roles in their lives without taking into consideration of the whole person but encouraging community harmony at the top, then if we work with them we can extend development and human rights promotion at the grassroots’ level. REQUESTS TO THE PATRON:
It is our prayer that you, other directors and all members of the Pearl Foundation begins working towards raising the finances to take forward the Foundation activities. Without your help, we can’t take forward the mission for which the Pearl Foundation was set up. We request further that Chapter Four becomes our umbrella or conduit or regulatory organization and partner with us in matters relating to finances, requesting communities for workshops and litigation. That is to say, when we are going anywhere, we are recommended by Chapter four and to fully be accountable to chapter four for such a time necessary to usher us into the next stage. In order to achieve such a healthy working relationship we agree to abide by your conditions and offer you accountability of all our activities. NATURE OF PEARL’S INTERVENTION
Pearl Foundation focuses on promoting human rights in a tangible way in order to lead to development at the grassroots level by the people themselves by responsible for their own development and Human Rights and call upon government and other funding agencies to add to their efforts. Human Rights and Development cannot be separated; they complement each other. SPHERES OF ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMS
(1) THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION RENAISSANCE TASKFORCE OR UGANDA YOUTHS SKILLING PROJECT “ Right to education renaissance task force”, we aim at teaching students, pupils and parents to provide a multifaceted right to education through complementing personal or vocational hands on skills with professional skills. Complementing both is as healthy and good to a learner as maintaining a proper oil and petrol level is to an automobile. Driving a vehicle only on petrol without oil leads to a dead end and the vehicle parts will eventually wear out. We have interviewed several hundreds of graduates currently unemployed and gone on a pilgrimage to find out the causes of this rampant unemployment and found an answer in the complementation of hands on skills with minds on skills while acquiring an education in Uganda by the individuals themselves and not government. We encourage parents, students and pupils to suspend the weekend and holiday classes to acquire these skills at the local and already established business centers as garages to acquire mechanics, driving, metal works and fabrication, saloons to acquire hair dressing, manicure and pedicure and fashion, carpentry workshops to learn carpentry designing, and construction sites to learn brick and concrete laying and building . We do this calling upon people people to be responsible without involving government as it will never do anything in time or never. We look at the education we receive as a big Titanic ship and the complementary hands on skills as the small life boats and life jackets and belts attached to this ship. In times of the storm and this ship is sinking, the life boats and jackets can save the crew by helping them pave an escape route to safety. That is when you have studied and gotten a degree and failed to find a job, the complementary skills you have got during weekends and holidays will help you remain afloat until you are able to find a job in the area of your qualification. This campaign helps to encourage parents and learners not to put all their eggs in one basket by training in one specialized field. It is in line with the principle in agricultural economics of not putting all the eggs in one basket because when the basket falls, all the eggs will break but when you keep all your eggs in many baskets, you would save some eggs in the other baskets. Most unemployed Youths are those who lost their parents before they could finish the long time taking courses at the university, or those whose parents suffered permanent disabilities and were not able to help them finish the studies, or those who chose poorly at the joining of the course. If however, some one was there before to advise them that complimentary hands on skills can help them keep afloat, they would not have gone through a spell of hard life. Students will be able to afford cost sharing with their parents to access those necessities parents deem luxurious but essential to the students’ life and learning. Students can even afford to contribute to fees payment especially if they are afforded the chance to work on weekends and holidays. The costs and time of achieving these skills maybe daunting, but the benefits far outweigh them all and will direct Ugandan youths into creative confrontation with the world. DO PARENTS AND STUDENTS AND PUPILS NEED TO ENROLL IN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS TO ACQUIRE PERSONAL HANDS ON SKILLS OR VOCATIONAL SKILLS? No, parents and pupils and students don’t need to enroll for fresh technical courses to acquire these skills, we encourage them to suspend holiday classes and acquire these skills at the already established business and local artisan centers as garages to acquire mechanics, metal works and fabrication, and driving, at the saloons to acquire hair dressing and manicure and pedicure, at the construction companies and sites to acquire brick and concrete laying and construction skills, tailoring workshops to acquire fashion designs and tailoring and hotels to acquire hotel management and cookery and become good chefs. These centers help Ugandans to acquire skills without having to go through the time wasting
