Union of Community Development Volunteers-Uganda Official Page

WHAT WE DO

Water and Sanitation Programme:

Only 56% of the total population in Uganda can access safe and clean water.

UCDV has spearhead to transfer lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation good practice in Uganda's poorest communities. We have opted to focus on constructing and protecting spring wells reason being that they last longer and easy to maintain.

The duty for water and sanitation maintenance invariably falls to women and girls in Uganda.

This is a Non protected / Constructed Spring well where people go and get water for home use.
95% of this water is believed to be contaminated.

Water and sanitation related diseases are account for a high percentage of diseases especially amongst children in Uganda. Over 75% of Uganda's diseases burden is considered to be preventable resulting from poor personal and domestic hygiene and inadequate sanitation facilities.

An African draws water from a non protected spring well where most likely 95% of it might be contaminated.
In Uganda, 97% of women and  girls  draw water for home use than men.

           

A thirty six Delivery Springy Pipe probably the biggest Spring in the World constructed by UCDV in Musanze District /Northern Province, Republic of Rwanda. It serves over 2,500 households. Its average yield is 1 litre in a  second.

Uganda like many other developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, is still struggling to ensure that all its people have access to safe water and good sanitation. Nearly 60 in every 10 persons in rural or urban areas have no access to basic sanitation facilities and safe water point within 1 km walking distance.

Orphaned Vulnerable Children standing in-front of their family pit latrine where sanitation is not good.

We have introduced a participatory hygiene and sanitation training (PHAST Program) that cautions the participant above good hygiene and sanitation practices in home, communities and schools.

We make a quarterly valuation and reward the best performing communities, schools and individuals.

Let me see how it works!!! A participant trying a Pit-it up system to see how it works after attending after attending a Participatory Hygiene And Sanitation Training (PHAST) Programme.

Orphanage Support Programme

There are 19million orphans in Uganda half of them as a result of HIV/AIDS.
Most of them live with their elderly grand mothers who are too frail and poor to provide for the orphans in their care the basic need if any Human being.

A UCDV staff member consolidating Orphan Vulnerable Children after loosing their house in heavy rains.

African children are at risk of loosing their lives as

Our voluntary intervention has made it possible to construct a new Pit latrine to save the situation at Kakoma C/U Primary school in Rakai District.

Many children have gone through very traumatic period.  As a result of the ongoing epidemic, many children are now orphaned by the AIDS virus.  Having seen their parents die, one after another, from AIDS related illness, they are either left to fund themselves or they have been taken from their homes by often unscrupulous relatives, with siblings often separated.

This is one of a class room block at St. Stephen Primary School in Buikwe District constructed using mud, footed with spear grass.
It has a population of over 400 pupils and there is a need to create a good learning environment for our dear African children.

At the worst extreme children are being locked in houses by step-parents or distant relatives, and being forced to go without food for days.  Young girls are abused and children of the dead have left for the streets and garbage dumps.  Sadly there are still reports of children being kidnapped and sacrificed in witchcraft rituals.  The out cry has made us resolve to raise and assist these needy children with the help of our friends in Uganda and overseas.

This is the Headteacher’s Office at St. Stephen Primary School.  Despite government’s call to a free Universal Primary Education, there is still a need for charity Organizations  to come with a supportive hand working hand in hand with the  government and beneficiary communities/schools so that the learning environment for our children is conducive.

As part of our vision we are seeking for friends, well-wishers, Donor agencies to come and join hands with us so that Orphan Vulnerable Children (OVCs) of Uganda can improve on the standard of living and have better education for their bright future.

Vocational Training Programme

Despite limited financial resources UCDV is at heart to all Orphaned Vulnerable Children and school dropouts.  The incense of this programme  is to empower these people by giving them vocational life skills in order to be self reliant.

UCDV offers a wide number of vocational training programme among which include;
Brick laying, Carpentry and Joinery, Electrical installation, Welding, Knitting and Computer training.

 

Environmental Conservation 

UCDV salutes all programmes that are geared at protecting environment.  It has been fully engaged in conducting Environmental Protection Education in communities, schools and other environmental agencies.