URICT Uganda https://www.urictuganda.org URICT UGANDA Fri, 04 Mar 2022 07:49:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://www.urictuganda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-URICT-LOGO-ohne-www-512x512-32x32.jpg URICT Uganda https://www.urictuganda.org 32 32 Building a Church https://www.urictuganda.org/building-a-church/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:19:04 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=13852 Praise Lord Brothers and Sisters. Since I was young, there was no Church in our Community. We had to walk 15 to 22 kilometers to go to downtown to find a Church so we can pray and praise the Lord. Sometimes we failed to attend prayers because of the long distance. Grandmothers, pregnant women, children […]

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Praise Lord Brothers and Sisters.

Since I was young, there was no Church in our Community.
We had to walk 15 to 22 kilometers to go to downtown to find a Church so we can pray and praise the Lord.
Sometimes we failed to attend prayers because of the long distance.
Grandmothers, pregnant women, children and those who didn't have bicycles missed the word of God.

Today I am so happy because God gives me Strength to share the good news of URICT Uganda Spiritual Project.
I've been praying for this for long time.

In God's Name I am humbly requesting everyone to stand with me to support our Community.
We are planning to build a Church at our Community.The cost to build a Church is close to $20K.

Click the link below to contribute toward our project building the Church at URICT Uganda Center.
Please share to everyone you know to support our Community.

Thank you for your donation and God bless you.

Andrew Gabula

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The post Building a Church first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> The Story of Andrew Gabula the Founder URICT- Uganda https://www.urictuganda.org/andrew/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:31:59 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=13741 Hello Sir/ Madam, Greetings from Uganda. My name is Andrew Gabula the founder and operator of URICT – Uganda, Joy Children’s Center, Janet grade primary School and URICT Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health Fund. I am a Social Worker, Educationalist, Women Activist and a Human Rights Defender.  I wish to briefly share with you my story. […]

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Greetings from Uganda.

My name is Andrew Gabula the founder and operator of URICT – Uganda, Joy Children’s Center, Janet grade primary School and URICT Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health Fund. I am a Social Worker, Educationalist, Women Activist and a Human Rights Defender.  I wish to briefly share with you my story. A story I named, “I was raised by a woman”.

I was born and raised in a very poor stricken family in Kamuli Busoga Eastern Uganda. I was born to a very polygamous father, who married eight wives and several mistresses. I had no opportunity to attend kindergarten, just like other children from privileged families. Straight away, from grade one in a grass thatched primary school, the best my mother could afford. My father was a serial polygamist, a well done drunkard, an unforgiving abuser, who regularly flogged us with my many siblings. A day never passed without beating my mother or one of my step mothers or even the mistresses. Whatever little money Mom was making to pay us school fees and buy basic needs at home through labouring in people’s gardens, Dad could take it by force so that he can fund his alcohol addictions and prostitution. Life at home became so hostile so at the age of 12 my mother decided to take me to a catholic father at Kamuli Missionary to get help with my studies. Thank God the priest accepted to pay my school fees but then in the vacation of Form four Father Wyanda left the country. Again Mom had to look for another good Samaritan in the name of Father Kees Greenwood in Jinja at Rubaga Student centre who paid my fees for my form five and form six later he also left the country. Because people were seeing my love for Education my late brother Waiswa David picked interest in educating me. I joined Makerere University Business School where I pursued a degree in Human Resource Management. But in my second year at the university my brother died of HIV/AIDS. My sister Rose picked interest in educating me but before completing my second year again my sweet sister died on the way to hospital to give birth because of maternal health.

Being an innovative person I immediately got in touch with a friend who introduced me to the business of selling books so that I can pay my tuition and contribute some money towards educating my young brothers and sisters. So I applied for an evening program so that I can balance the two things.

The exposure I got, made me realise that millions of families in Uganda, are going through the same. In 2004 I made a decision, which made me put aside my personal interests and focus on my community to change lives for the better. I founded URICT – Uganda, an Organization which operates in Kamuli district focusing on Education & Skilling, Health & Care, Safe Motherhood & Maternal Health, Human Rights for all and Food security. The Organization works with and for Women/Girls from abusive relationships, single mothers including widows, orphaned and vulnerable children and skill-less youths.

I am reaching out to you, to explore if there might be any possible areas of partnership or strategic linkages. I am available for a zoom or phone meeting to further this discussion.

Thanks so much and Blessings

Andrew

Andrew
Gabula Andrew (Founder & Executive Director)
URICT – Uganda
Busota – 1 Bugonda Zone Kamuli – Jinja Rd Uganda
Tel: +256775055492 Fax:+256434123063 E-mail: ugandarict@gmail.com Skype: Urict.uganda
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URICT – Uganda has been working for and with Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Survivors of Gender Based Violence, Single Mothers especially widows since 2005. URICT has impacted lives and changed for the better the communities in and around Kamuli District Eastern Uganda. Over the years we have reached out to over 10,000 children, over 8,000 single mothers and 12,000 youths. Our community services and development work revolves around Education, Skilling, Health, food security and human rights.  URICT has worked with both local and international partners for the betterment of the people of Kamuli.

Situation at hand – Appeal for support to purchase an Ambulance in response to Covid 19

The eve of 2020, came with so many unexpected challenges!!! … …and the world will never be the same again. As the 1st cases of Corona Virus – Covid 19 were reported in Uganda, in March 2020 the government’s solid will to curb and stop the massive spread of the virus was so lacking. Despite the punishing and unforgiving restrictions and nationwide lock down, the Ugandan government, particularly the Ministry of Health didn’t do enough to prepare for the worst because of limited resources

As we entered the 2nd and 3rd Wave of Covid 19, we are faced with a bitter reality that the government isn’t ready to fight and stop Covid 19. Uganda has a population of over 47 million; it’s absurd to let you know that only less than 800,000 people have been immunized. These Covid 19 jabs were mainly for essential workers, “connected people” politicians etc. This leaves people like us in a very tough situation. It should be emphasized that the Medical & Health industry is mainly in the hands of the private sector, since the government health facilities are not enough. The private sector has used this opportunity to make huge profits from this Covid 19 breakout. The rampant lack of oxygen and oxygen cylinders has escalated the situation as well. As the hospitals got filled up so quickly, locals failing to give a decent burial to their loved ones, the government responded by locking the country for another 42 days. No public means, no transport, strict curfew hours of being outside. NOBODY thought that people in the rural poor villages also contract Covid 19 and yet they have no means of even getting to the nearest health center to get medical treatment.

As Covid 19 claims several lives every day, for example in our Village/Community, locals are also dying of other diseases and complications, pregnant mothers can’t get to the hospitals and hence there are several mothers who are now victims of maternal mortality. The infant mortality has also doubled

I personally Andrew Gabula the co-founder/executive director of URICT- Uganda COVID 19 attacked me and I was taken to Kenya and admitted in Nairobi Hospital Aga-Khan spent almost a month in hospital. My friend helped me with funds to pay all medical bills and other needs. God bless her abundantly. God saved my life but I was going to die in few days.

The only vehicles allowed on the streets are the Ambulances, yes Ambulance!!! However, it should be noted that in the entire district of Kamuli for example, there are only 3 known ambulances. Which are in a dangerous mechanical state and some even broken down. To the one which is operational, it’s very expensive to hire, yet working fully at capacity. The population indicator shows that Kamuli has a population of 907,850 people. This shows you the extreme need we are in.

People are dying in the villages, and it’s upon this background that URICT Uganda with URICT – Joy Children’s Center and Janet Primary School is appealing to you to support us in order to purchase an Ambulance which won’t only be used by our projects but also the entire locals in the district.

The maintenance, service, repair and gas, will be paid for through cost sharing with the people who will be using the Ambulance.

We have had an engagement with the dealer (Magezi Med-Auto (U) LTD) of a 4×4 Ambulance Van, which comes with some medical equipment, oxygen gas cylinders, Wi-Fi, a standby generator etc. and they gave us a quotation of $38,500USD and can be delivered as soon as possible. He has also given us a payment plan of 75% on delivery and 25% after 3 months.

Donations can be channeled through our donation page https://www.urictuganda.org/ways-to-give/donate 

Donations are also accepted through WorldRemit.com, MoneyGram.com, Westernunion.com and wave.com (attention – Andrew Gabula – 256775055492 – andrewgabula@gmail.com )

Thanks so much for your support and we shall forever be grateful.

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The post COVID 19 URICT- UGANDA – MEDICAL AMBULANCE APPEAL first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Coronavirus Medical Supplies https://www.urictuganda.org/coronavirus/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:54:40 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=5805 The coronavirus is spreading rapidly and we are doing everything we can to protect the children in our care.

The post Coronavirus Medical Supplies first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> The coronavirus is spreading rapidly and we are doing everything we can to protect the children in our care. But we do not have enough masks, cleaning supplies or basic medical needs like thermometers and plastic gloves.

Some of the children in care are among the most vulnerable to this deadly disease due to compromised immune systems or ongoing health conditions.

If they contract the coronavirus, they may not survive.

THESE CHILDREN URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP.

Will you give a gift now to save a child from the deadly coronavirus?

 

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The post Kids at Orphanage Playing with the New Toys first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Operation Christmas Miracle https://www.urictuganda.org/operation-christmas-miracle/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:59:01 +0000 https://www.urict-uganda.ngo/?p=1251 Looking for a valuable gift idea this Christmas? Your donation helps that 364 kids wake up with gifts under the tree this Christmas.

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Your donation  helps that our kids wake up with gifts under the tree this Christmas.

According to the budget we need to fundraise $4500 to feed and buy some clothes, sweets, biscuits and soft drinks for all the children at Joy Orphanage.

 

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The post Operation Christmas Miracle first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Morning Rainbow Holiday Fundraiser https://www.urictuganda.org/fundraiser/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:57 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=5564 This holiday season we are fundraising for the completion of a Classroom block with 6 classrooms and the construction of a modern boy’s dormitory.

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Fundraising for the completion of a Classroom block and the construction of a modern boy’s dormitory

URICT – Joy Children’s Home is a project of URICT – Uganda. Founded in 2005 by Andrew Gabula to respond to the overwhelming needs of the HIV/AIDS Orphans in the Community. HIV/AIDS have affected each and every family in Kamuli Eastern Uganda, in so doing there is a social breakdown in many aspects. Though Uganda has made some success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, it only sounds good on paper and urban areas not in the rural remote poor Villages where URICT is operating. Over the years we have been so blessed with friends from different parts of the world who have stood with us. We have been able to establish a community school serving close to 400 HIV/AIDS affected Children aged 5yrs to 17yrs. We have made success in creating access to safe clean water and many other projects as you will see in our Achievements list below.

This holiday season we are fundraising for the completion of a Classroom block with 6 classrooms and the construction of a modern boy’s dormitory. We are targeting to fundraise $48,500USD for both projects.

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Examples of what your donation can do!

$1 – pays for a concrete brick
$5 – pays for a whole day’s labour wage of a builder
$10 – pays for a Bag of Cement & it’s transport to the construction site
$20 – pays for an iron sheet for roofing
$50 – pays for a bundle of roofing timber
$100 – pays for a window
$150 – pays for a door
$200 – pays a set of glasses for windows or doors
$500 – pays for a unit of solar installations
$750 – pays for water installations in the dormitory
$1,000 – pays for painting of the buildings
$5,000 –pays for entire roofing of the Classroom block
$25,000 – pays for the construction of the whole classroom block

Achievements of URICT - Uganda since its establishment, under Andrew Gabula’s leadership

Primary School for children aged 4yrs to 14yrs

From 2007 to 2012 we established a Community Primary School for children aged 4yrs to 14yrs, currently the school has a total enrolment of 420 Orphans and Vulnerable Children and employing 17 teaching staff members and 8 non-teaching staff members. The school is managed independently but URICT maintains an “eyes on, hands off” relationship with the school’s management to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.

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Vocational & Life Skills Training Center

Carpentry Workshop

In 2014 we started working on building a Vocational & Life Skills Training Center in Kamuli. Initially we started with training in Tailoring/Sewing/Knitting and Carpentry. Currently total enrollment for Tailoring department is standing at 120 Women aged 15yrs to 30yrs (most these are single mothers, teenager mothers and widows), while carpentry has 85 mainly boys and young men, aged 15yrs to 35yrs.

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Art & Crafts

Earlier on in 2016 we started the making of art & crafts, this includes paper beads/jewelry making of table mats, door mats, rags, house decorations etc. These are all selling items and this department of art and craft has an enrolment of 65 women and girls and employs a group of 18 women. It’s through these self-empowerment projects, that we officially opened the URICT – Micro-Finance Group, which has 220 Members. Through this arrangement, members save, get group loans, learn more on local investing and hence we are already seeing a change in their incomes.

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Paper Beads - African Jewelry

WASH project

In 2012 URICT started on a WASH project. This involved protecting water wells, drilling boreholes while training women in the making of Bio Sand Water filters. Since this is more of a social enterprise project, apart from its charity merits, it has created jobs for 1,800 women who are making and selling Bio Sand water filters all over Eastern Uganda. These are women who have now improved on their household incomes while creating access to safe clean water for hundreds of thousands of people in this sub region. In 2015 we started Soap making and this has also created many jobs while providing locals with affordable liquid soap. URICT staff developed training manuals for WASH and use it as a guideline for community sensitization programs to raise awareness about the importance of homestead and personal hygiene as ways of reducing spread of diseases. Since 2016 we carried out 50 Community training about sanitation and hygiene reaching out to over 20,000 people.

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Motherhood and Maternal Health Project

In 2010, we started the Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health Project in partnership with Emerge Poverty Free UK. In so doing we were able to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Kamuli & Buyende. Under this Health & Care Program, we have partnered with different stakeholders to provide TB/HIV/AIDS drugs to 2,000 Women and Children living with HIV/AIDS. At the same time we provide free condoms, carry our awareness campaigns, Mobile free HIV testing and on-going counseling. We have also distributed treated mosquito nets to 5,000 households. Under the reproductive health projects, we have embarked on promoting menstrual hygiene through which we have distributed re-usable and non-reusable pads to 780 underprivileged school girls and we have also trained 200 rural women to make re-usable sanitary pads for their family members that last for a period of one year.

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Rural Women and Children's Health Program

In 2013, we established model farm in Kamuli on a 36 acre piece of land. This farm was initially established to produce food supplies for the Children’s Center and Kamuli Community School, but we quickly realized that it can easily become self-sustaining if we also started Crop & Animal-Husbandry Agriculture School at this farm. This farming School is now training locals in modern farming methods, pest control, harvest management and value addition. Since it’s opening, it has trained over 2,000 households and employees 15 staff members. It’s also offering extension services to the local peasants within the district of Kamuli. The success of this farming project informed and we learned that there is need to go into agro-forestry farming, so in Dec/2013 we acquired 800 acres of land in Kamuli and we started tree farming, we started by planting 1,000,000 trees of different spices. The main target here is mainly to protect the environment while attracting an income to sustain our different projects. We have also introduced vegetable and fruit trees on this establishment while the community has also gotten involved. Last year we introduced Bee-farming in this project and fish-farming is already under way. This project has been a cash-cow for URICT while different schools from all over Eastern Uganda come for study and research and at the same time, it has created food security for well over 2,000 households in the last 6years. This project is also paying School fees and providing scholastic materials to all the 420 Orphans and Vulnerable Children we have at Kamuli Community School. Currently Incomes from this project is also paying school fees for 180 other Children in High Schools (Rape Hurts Foundation sponsors children who graduate from our school to continue with their education in different high schools in Uganda), it’s also paying Tuition fees for 75 University & College Students who have passed through the hands of Rape Hurts Foundation, these are students who will be graduating with degrees and diplomas in different fields and some are already returning to their respective villages to create change. This project has enjoyed a lot from support locally and internationally and in 2016 we made a replica of the same in Butaabala Village. It’s still under this project where we have provided 500,000 solar lights to households, so that they can stop using oil lamps which causes several diseases to humans while affecting the environment.

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URICT projects are designed and implemented following a holistic/integrated approach that focuses on the physical and psychological needs of Children & Women in their totally while paying attention to how their social, political, cultural, economic surroundings influence their wellbeing. URICT strives to ensure all interventions are geared towards sustainability, the long term. URICT is a growing and learning organization open to ideas, suggestions, criticisms, technical support and guidance so that we can move towards total self-reliance and be able to serve our clients even much more better.

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The post Morning Rainbow Holiday Fundraiser first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Our children https://www.urictuganda.org/our-children/ Sun, 07 Jul 2019 18:40:46 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=5456 Our children in the school and orphanage all in good health conditions. Thank you so much donors for sacrificing and you support these total orphans and grandmothers.

The post Our children first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Our children in the school and orphanage all in good health conditions. Thank you so much donors for sacrificing and you support these total orphans and grandmothers.

The post Our children first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Income generating projects https://www.urictuganda.org/income-generating-projects/ Sun, 07 Jul 2019 18:34:54 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=5454 Income generating projects. Modern organic farming at URICT Uganda organization.

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The post Income generating projects first appeared on URICT Uganda.]]> Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health https://www.urictuganda.org/safe-motherhood-and-maternal-health/ Sun, 07 Jul 2019 18:27:32 +0000 https://www.urictuganda.org/?p=5434 Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health outreaches training for URICT Uganda.

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