BUWEDDA Uganda

Organization Description: 

Our Aim: To see rural disabled women and girls attain independence through the process of economic empowerment, access to health information and services, improved reproductive health, provision of mobility to women and children with disabilities.

Our Objectives: 1. To address the special needs of women and girls with disabilities 2. Improve the economic status of the rural women with disabilities 3. To build strong disabled women? groups at grassroots level to effectively address the needs of their members 4. To promote access to health services for women and girls with disabilities including information on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health 5. To advocate for the rights of women and girls with disabilities 6. To promote vocational skills development training for girls and women with disabilities 7. To enhance awareness on the needs, limitations, potentials and rights of women and girls with disabilities to improve or change society?s attitude towards disability.

Location: 
P.O BOX 5034,Jinja
Jinja, +256
Uganda
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Mission Statement: 

To facilitate participation, unity, team work, self help initiatives, self esteem and the advancement of the rural women and girls with disabilities through advocacy, access to resources, health information and service, education and skills development.

Organizational Statement of Faith: 

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1John3:17 -18

EIN: 
S.5914/3605
Do You Require Formal Orientation Training for Volunteers?: 
Yes
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No
Are more than one-third of the participants in your organization/programs low income (below 150% of the poverty level)?: 
Yes
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0
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