EACO Funding & Projects

EACO Staff and volunteers

Funding and Projects

How we're financed

US Embassy, Kampala

Project to facilitate economic sustainable life situations for widows in Mukuno County, funded by the 2009-2010 Ambassador's Special Self-Help Program.

The grant funded the seeds, poultry and pigs that have been distributed by EACO to 20 widows in Mukono County.

Just a Drop

Travel2

Just a Drop, with Travel2, funded a water and sanitation project, benefiting Over 1,000 households and 5,500 people.

International Justice Mission

We also rely on the generosity of private donors.

What we do

Restoring Hope for the Marginalized

This program targets grandmothers, orphans, and vulnerable children (OVCs) living with their grandmothers. Major activities include:

• Ensuring food security by supplying garden tools and seeds;
• Medical services to grandmothers; like provision of mosquito nets and
• dosage for vitamin and de-worming
• Youth Empowerment
• HIV/AIDS sensitization.
• Scholastic materials and midday school meals to OVCs.
• "Top-up" of school fees as needed.
• Construction of houses; and bore holes to the needy communities.
• Counseling and guidance for OVCs and grandmothers on HIV/AIDS, family
• planning, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), and use of Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).

Sexual/Reproductive HealthSchool project

EACO carries out a Sexual Reproductive Health Program, which focuses on counseling and guidance, educational trainings, and community outreach related to HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), family planning, and life skills planning.

To implement this program, EACO administers free voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS and other STDs and provides HIV+ individuals with ARV's.

EACO volunteers then make regular home visits to those who have tested positive in order to supply them with foodstuffs that have been donated to EACO.

Vocational and Life Skills Training

This program targets vulnerable women, particularly widows and those living with HIV/AIDS, OVCs, and grandmothers caring for vulnerable children.

It seeks to address lack of economic opportunity for these groups of people by providing training and individualized instruction in entrepreneurship, marketing techniques for small businesses, micro finance, and the implementation of income-generating activities (IGAs), including:

• farming
• vegetable growing
• chicken rearing
• piggery
• mushroom growing
• tailoring and design
• arts and crafts
• hair dressing and styling

Water and sanitation projects

With these we construct toilets, wells, bore holes, and water safe tanks to the needy  communities.

Programmes and Trainings about Gender, Women and Development

Here we train the communities in gender issues, human rights, and others so as to reduce violence in the home/families.

Human Rights Project (HRP)

GOAL: The strong goal of this project is to improving the quality of life of the vulnerable children and orphans through providing education, giving care, love and support. Additionally, it promotes empowerment of rural Community people in various areas affecting humanity.

Kyampisi in Mukono district is topping the reported cases of child kidnapping and human blood sacrifice. In most cases, children are kidnapped as they walk back home in the night. This has caused some parents not to send their children to fetch water – but that also means that the family will not have water to use at night. Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual (ritual killing). Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals (animal sacrifice) and of religious sacrifice in general. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased. For example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the king's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. The practice of human sacrifice is on the rise in Uganda more so in our area, as measured by ritual killings where body parts, often facial features or genitals, are cut off for use in ceremonies. However, the rise in human sacrifices in Uganda appears to come from a desire for wealth and a belief that drugs made from human organs can bring riches, according to the task force heads.

Sexual/Reproductive Health

EACO carries out a Sexual Reproductive Health Program, which focuses on counseling and guidance, educational trainings, and community outreach related to HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), family planning, and life skills planning. To implement this program, EACO administers free voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS and other STDs and provides HIV+ individuals with ARV's. EACO volunteers then make regular home visits to those who have tested positive in order to supply them with foodstuffs that have been donated to EACO.

Vocational and Life Skills Training

This program targets vulnerable women, particularly widows and those living with HIV/AIDS, OVCs and grandmothers caring for vulnerable children. It seeks to address lack of economic opportunity for these groups of people by providing training and individualized instruction in entrepreneurship, marketing techniques for small businesses, micro finance and the implementation of income-generating activities (IGAs), including:

• Farming, vegetable growing, chicken rearing, piggery, mushroom growing, tailoring and design, arts and crafts, hair dressing and styling

Programmes and Trainings about Gender, Women and Development

Here we train the communities in gender issues, human rights and others so as to reduce violence in the home/families

One of the first classes, 1994