Nkoma Christian
Youth Association provides the basic needs for the displaced people,orphans, street children and HIV/ AIDS victims. The Basic
needs include: - Food, water, health and shelter/ good accommodation facilities.
Water is
a very big problem because in Uganda any good purified tap water is paid for in order to get it, the displaced families are
not employed, they don’t have money to buy water and end up drinking dirty water which leads to cause of dysentery,
typhoid and cholera.
Health is
very poor, diseases such as malaria caused as a result of mosquito bites attack families and the displaced cannot afford a
mosquito net.
The organization
has come up with several methods to produce food but it cannot meet the capacity of the population, and now families have
one meal a day of which is not nutritious which has led to malnutrition in the young ones: the young ones are suffering from
Kwashiorkor and marasmus.
Accommodation
is really very poor because we have constructed temporary grass roofed houses which are very weak in case of heavy rain and
wind the houses are washed away and in most cases families end up dying in the houses.
Nobody can
afford a mattress and we have to provide sacks made out of sisal, and for those who can come tot own, they collect paper boxes
that they use as mattresses and sacks become blankets. Due to baby urinating on the beddings in the house mopping becomes
a problem and that has led to invasion body parasites such as bedbugs, hair lice and jiggers, which affect human life. 5 children
in a family share that who is lucky, one blanket.
We have also
come up to fight child prostitution by sensitizing the dangers of child prostitution such as early pregnancies, dangers of
HIV/ AIDS diseases that will be another way to sensitize the young ones about HIV/ AIDS.
We go further
and sensitize the general public about the dangers of HIV and AIDS. AIDS being a threat problem in Uganda and Africa as a
continent, we have to devise means of fighting it.
And we feel
for those who are already infected with the diseases, we need to provide cheaper anti-viral drugs to extend their lives for
them to accomplish their plans.
The organisation
provides basic education to the community, there the government of Uganda has given us an upper hand by providing free education
to primary level but the problems come in at secondary and tertiary level.
The government
doesn’t provide scholastic materials for the students, to provide scholastic materials and pay fees for a few of those
who succeed to go to secondary schools. But most of them drop out after primary level due to financial status.
