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Organisation Summary
Bugerere Education Support Organisation (BESO-Uganda) was founded after a grueling realization of a need that required imperative, fast and immediate action. This involved a people who had been victimized by unfavorable circumstances, and as we assessed their plight, there was simply no way how one could have turned back on this and go home and have a good night’s sleep.
The Bugerere Education Support Organization was created in 2008, to give back to communities in Bugerere County (Kayunga District) and other parts of Uganda that we can reach; it was legally registered in 2009 under registration number 185/2010 and 09598 (Kitgum district and Kayunga Districts respectively)
BESO’s mission is to support and provide with a strategic plan for mobilizing and managing resources available to contribute to the rural helpless women, orphans and vulnerable children’s formal and non-formal education and welfare through financial, material or technical support to enable them transform to better lives and as well to make significant contribution to the development of the society.
With vision of our organisation is of a leading organisation in a friendly world where leading friends play active roles to help the vulnerable population especially children and women become responsible citizens of the world tomorrow.
Our goal is to develop an attractive support program that is relevant to the needs and aspirations of vulnerable and underserved children and rural women to improve their quality of life by fostering relationships to increase understanding among friends, creating awareness about the helpless, increasing access to health information and service, promoting sustainable development, provision of educational resources, institutional capacity building, advocacy and talent support for orphans all which leads to building better lives.
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| some of children of New york junior school-wanteete |
Our children are still living in sticks and leaves patched together as shacks, with single mothers, forgotten in the corners of Uganda. Many girls are married off before they even turn 14 year old! Their mothers let them marry because they don’t have enough food, clothing and access to health care, none-the-less school. These children are very weak, having parents who have died from HIV/AIDS, wars and poverty. Some end up working in stone quarries, splitting rocks with their hands and heavy hammers, in the midst of the burning sun. Many spend time roaming for food or working to try and grow crops. Others of 10, 11 and 12 years old spend their days at landing sites, catching, cleaning and loading fish to waiting vessels or cars. They are abused as cheep labor and unable to go to school or properly develop. They are dressed in lags as cloths, many of the boys turn to crime and drugs, joining gangs and the girls risk going into prostitution, homelessness and facing violence.
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| women listening intently in community meetings |
Concerning the work that we are doing in the women’s sector, this is integrated together with the AIDS support system, sustainable development, agriculture resources, counseling, vocational training and adult education. This is a very outstanding, concerted– effort and intensive action, with the help of free willing professional counselors, we concentrate on encouraging the people we are dealing with in BESO to come out and take the AIDS test.
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| piggery project at wanteete village |
We encourage them by carefully informing them that in spite of the presence of AIDS virus in their bodies; they still have a chance to live the rest of their lives positively, IF THEY’D BE WILLING TO CONSEQUENTLY CHANGE THEIR LIFESTYLES! And it has worked. We encourage them to be creative with their lives so that they can realize the productivity of a well organized, disciplined life. We encourage them to be self-motivated positive thinkers, and as well to take more responsibility as they carry on with life, for example, not to slip back into old behavior like sexual promiscuity or intravenous drugs, or to infect others with the virus.
We have stood together shoulder-to-shoulder with the women in encouraging them to undertake income-generating activities like art and crafts making, beads making, brick-laying, piggery, pineapple growing, goat rearing, poultry, crop production among others.
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| safina a councilor teaching a women group at Kitimbwa |
We encourage and assist women very much; especially the pregnant to see that they give birth in hospital instead of at home, so that it is so done that the baby does not get infected with the virus, as that would always happen at childbirth.
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| materials at our New york Junior school |
We arouse awareness amongst the women about their reproductive health, and encourage them to play an active role in planning their families (how many children to have, how to space them, and other such issues).
Our volunteering teams is undertaking a vigorous campaign to encourage women to get a very child immunized – against cholera, whooping cough, diphtheria, poliomyelitis and other killer – or clipping diseases.
We have special sessions in which we address the rampant issue of domestic violence. This is mostly committed by men against their wives and children! So this is where it involves the child and women’s rights, welfare and safety.
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| the trench that was fixed at kigundu zone |
In this very forum we address the necessity of the education of the girl child, because very unfortunately, many men give preference to boys than girls, in which case when it comes to catering for schooling and education, some men think that investing in a girl is a waste, vis-à-vis investing in a boy at school.
We concentrated on reaching out to some private schools such as Greenville High school, Makerere High school Migadde to help the poor parents with school fees subsidy of up to 40%, this has seen the parents increase their house hold incomes.
BESO team is doing all this work for free and we as well pull from our own pockets to push this work to another desirable level.
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| Visit at little cranes primary school |
BESO is expected by the communities to facilitate and promote activities aimed at education, poverty alleviation as well as to improve their conditions of living which would include agriculture development to alleviate hunger and poverty, water and sanitation, health organization and capacity building and others. It is therefore the urgent desire of BESO to be in position to engage in these activities for the benefit of the poor in the area hence the development of this project.
Unfortunately, due to its unfavorable financial situation, BESO is unable to measure to the expectations of the communities. This is why the organization is turning to people of good will to assist in this what is surely a worthwhile venture.
Thanks to whoever has helped BESO turn into a potential organization touching impoverished communities in Uganda.
Learn more about BESO on our website; www.besoug.org
The school that was started with a mere $1600 microgrant from Spark microgrants (www.sparkmicrogrants.org) with wooden classes led to an opportunity of new generous partners with BESO, thus the Segal Family foundation that donated a generous grant of $5000 for addition of more class rooms, flooring the existing class rooms, fixing timbers on the building, BESO facilitation, supporting 10 students from the poorest families of Wanteete village and as well as extension of the school land, this has been a blessing to BESO and the impoverished Wanteete community-Kayunga District.
The school now looks incredible from flooring the old wooden building to construction of more class rooms so as more students can join the school.
