The very low level of education among the whole population of the community which has been attributed to the increasing number of orphans as a result of HIV and AIDS scourge that has hit the village for many years. Subsistence agriculture being the major way of livelihood has made it very difficult for the parents to send their children to school due to the increasing cost of education. The most
affected and vulnerable category here is the orphans with no proper care and protection, no education, no food, no clothes and medical care. Worst, some of the children at years low as 11 are heading families taking responsibility of catering for the young ones as well as finding away for their education. In an attempt to do so, they end up meeting with old men and women to earn survival with money less than US$1, coupled with HIV and AIDS. This has encouraged and increased on the rate of infections among the young population in Kanungu village. The project is therefore initiated to target the orphans and the vulnerable children and to empower them by providing education to the bright ones and also empowering their guardians to carry out income generating activities that would further keep them even if the project ended. Old people well above 78years are often left to care them, these two are helpless. Non HIV/AIDS orphans are equally vulnerable children who need to be helped. These children, apart from failure to raise school fees (tuitions) are also unable to meet their basic needs, food, shelter, medical care, sanitary towel for mature girls and even company. Orphans Good Hope Uganda therefore was founded as response to this problems faced by these orphans. The organization was set up to give a hope to the lives of these orphans, to find their tuition to pay their education, to give them relevance in life. Feed them, not just with any food but a balanced diet that gives them resistance to diseases .Also to find for them some shelters where possible to give them a belonging. Responding to their ailments /sickness through medical care and counseling them. Indeed the organization has come up to actualize them to their situations so that they are able to overcome them. Despite government’s effort to enable every body access education through introducing universal primary education (UPE) some children in Kanungu village county failed to continue with education .this is because they can’t afford scholastic materials such as uniforms books pencils feeding and other necessities of life. Even at secondary level much as the government has tried all it can to introduce universal secondary education (USE), still some children especially orphans and needy are unable go to school like their counter parts at the primary level they can’t afford the basic necessities of life. However, Orphans’ Good Hope Uganda does not aim at challenging government program but to supplement on government’s effort of helping orphans and the needy of which Kanungu village is part. And is working hand in hand with other non –government organizations(NGOS) to sort out those problems .However, Good Hope was initiated by a group of 5 people who felt it’s worth addressing the problems of orphans and disadvantaged children and people living with AIDS(PLWS) in the communities whose conditions of living have worsened especially in Kanungu village. Through commitment, devotion and determination, this project aims at helping 50 orphans out of 300 orphans and disadvantaged children that the organization registered in Kanungu village .
