This document provides an overview of a project in Uganda run by the Charity for Peace Foundation (CPF) to help street children and former child soldiers in northern Uganda. It describes the background of CPF and the civil war in northern Uganda that displaced many children. The project intervened to reunite children with families, provide counseling, vocational training, and livelihood support. Over 100 children were reunited with families and many have gone on to further education or start businesses. The document recommends establishing a rehabilitation center and providing continued support to address the complex needs of street children in a comprehensive way.

1. Executive Overview of ASK funded
Project in Uganda-East Africa
Charity for Peace Foundation
PRESENTATION
Anthony Akol
Chief Executive Officer
Charity for Peace Foundation
akolanthony2003@yahoo.com
+256772421029/+256704421029

2. ∗ Background of Charity for Peace Foundation (CPF).
∗ Introduction of Northern Uganda.
∗ Night commuter's and Street children project.
 Reasons for children being on the street
 Intervention of CPF and ASK
 The impact of the intervention on the street children.
Lessons learned
∗ Way forward (What next?)
OUTLAY OF THE PRESENTATION

3. ∗ Charity for peace Foundation (CPF-UGANDA) is a Non-
Governmental Organization registered with National NGO board in
Uganda since September 2003.
∗ The organisation was started by 3 young local people of Northern
Uganda; Anthony Akol, James Kidega Nabinson and Marc Olwal in
2003 at the peak of the war in Northern to help war affected
children.
∗ VISION: Charity for Peace Foundation envisions a society in Uganda
where the population is peaceful, productive, healthy and self
reliant; and where the rights of individual members of society is
respected and upheld.
Background of Charity for Peace
Foundation

4. ∗ Uganda is a land lock country located in East Africa.
∗ Spencer-Churchill called it the Pearl of Africa in 1908.
∗ It has population of approx. 35 million people.
∗ The percentage of people estimated to be living
below the poverty line is estimated to be 36%.
∗ The President has been President Yuweri Kaguta
Museveni since 1986 to date.
∗ The Northern Uganda had civil war from 1986 to 2006
when there was Juba Peace talk that brought relative
peace to date.
∗ The war between the government and the Lord
Resistant Army(LRA) had the following effects;
About Uganda

5. ∗ About 1.8 million people were displaced in the internal
displaced camps.
∗ LRA abducted Approx. 24,000 to 38,000 children and
28,000 to 37,000 adults as of April 2006.(Abducted
by, Berkeley-Tulane Initiative on Vulnerable
Populations, 2006).
∗ LRA often forced children to kill their parents or
siblings with machetes or blunt tools.
∗ LRA abducted girls to be sex slaves for his officers.
∗ Cutting lips, ears, boiling human flesh in the pots were
some of extreme cases that happened .
Effects of the LRA war

6. Pictures of former IDP Camps

7. A woman with lips cut off by LRA

9. ∗ When night commuters, centers were closed in 2006,
children went on street of Gulu.
∗ By 2006, the number of street children both Full time
and part time was 226( Assessment done by CPF and
UNICEF).
∗ Probation and welfare office census in 2010 put the
number of children and young people living on the
street of Gulu at 785 (170 girls and 615 boys)
∗ Their recent census of 2013 put the number of
children and young people living on the street of Gulu
at 510.
Night commuter's and Street
children project.

10. Pictures of Children on street

11. ∗ Children born in captivity don't know where to go.
Both parents died in the bush war or has been sent
away because his father abducted our daughter.
∗ HIV/AIDS epidemics leading to high number of orphans
without adequate care. Many women and men were
raped during the war either by LRA or the government
soldiers hence high rate of Hiv/Aids
∗ High poverty levels thus putting a lot of pressures on
the family unit.
∗ child labour and child neglect.
∗ Domestic violence .
∗ Cultural break down during the war.
REASONS of Coming on street.

12. Children preparing to sell empty
bottles on street

13. Pictures of children on street

14. Street children project and
intervention of CPF and ASK.
∗ Family tracing and reintegration of children with
families(total of 117 reintegrated).
∗ Centre counselling and medical treatments .
∗ Community child outreach.
∗ Community based Trainings(CBT).
∗ Vocational skill trainings with GYDA.
∗ Sports, cultural dances and games
∗ Sustainable livelihood to Care Givers(paper beads).

15. Training and Centre Counselling

16. ∗ Since 2006 117 children has gone back to their homes
and others making Rolex and sapati on the street of
Gulu.
∗ Since 2006, Out of the street children, 4 have joined
University education and perusing their degree
courses.
∗ Two street children have become local musicians in
Gulu. Lucky David Wilson voted local Musician of the
year in 2011 and given UGX 500,ooo/=(£125).
∗ 2 street children are pursuing Diploma in Agriculture at
Bukalasa Training Institute.
∗ 14 has gone back to school and undergoing secondary
and primary education.
∗ 54, have joined vocational trainings with support of
IMPACT of Interventions.

17. Street children are now in
Business

18. Care givers making paper beads

19. ∗ Children and young people living on the streets are
a sensitive group to deal with.
∗ The street children of Northern Uganda need
Psychosocial support at a rehabilitation centre
which CPF can’t afford to pay for.
∗ The diverse nature of needs of children and young
people living on the streets require an integrated
and comprehensive approach.
∗ Children living on the streets like other persons can
reform and live a responsible life
∗ In order to meaningfully deal with the problems of
street children, there is need for a broader
mobilization and participation of all stake holders to
address the push as well as pull factors.
Lessons learned

20. ∗ There is need for rehabilitation and Psychosocial
center and vocational trainings for handling street
children. In the drop in center, children learn good
things but when they go back on street they forget all
and start their bad habits of substance abuses, sexual
abuses, stealing etc.
∗ Support for care givers to revive their livelihood.
Otherwise, street is always better than homes.
∗ There is need for Motor vehicle to handle health
related problems at street children center as
emergency comes in.
Way forward

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