About us

About The Project

Ma-Africa project is a registered NPO. Registration 239-099 NPO initiated on the 18th of November 2019 in response to HIV and Aids. Due to Muslim Aids Programme inspiration and motivation, the newly name of Ma-Africa Project was being initiated and the community of Rockville and surrounding took over from the Muslim Aids Program and continued with Awareness. OVC (orphaned and vulnerable children) program, Training, counselling and life skills programme, training, counselling and life skills programme that will quickly progress to a point where the need to care and support for infected and affected people become and priority. As MAP we are confident that we will make a positive contribution to national struggle against HIV and AIDS as well as partnership in fighting this devastating disease.

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Homework Assistance

Health screening

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Our Vision

• Celebrating life in grouping families and individuals • Risking with innovation while honoring tradition • Encouraging search and empowering belief and standing with those suffer.

Our Objectives

Primary

1. To promote healthy living through sports 2. To provide integrated developmental social welfare services for substance abuse Prevention, treatment and after care. 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages 4. To create a safe environment for children to share their dreams 5. To encourage children to live their potential and to empower children with keys to Success 6. To provide psychosocial support, provision of cooked meals to orphans and Vulnerable children 7. To groom young girls and boys to become better leader

secondary

1. To improve the provision of orphans and vulnerable children. All children should enjoy services and benefits aimed at facilitating access to nutrition, health care, education social care and safety. 2. To create job opportunities for person previous disadvantaged background, to encourage communication between parents and their children and also to address negative issues that often make them to give up their dreams

Our Purpose

purpose

• To attract more teenagers into our programme • Be able to continue with support groups for people living with HIV/AIDS • Distributing food packs during supports groups and beneficiaries • Not having challenges of beneficiaries attending due to having periods • To have extra funding for taking our beneficiaries for camps and educational tours

Our Services

Services

• Provision of cooked meals to orphans and vulnerable children on a daily basis Psychosocial services e.g. Support groups, home-visits, counseling, Supervision and debriefing and school- visits • Social and behavioral change programmes such as Chommy and Yolo. • Linking infected/ affected individuals with the government resources and relevant networking organizations • Capacitating EPWP/ caregivers • Health screening • To promote healthy living through sports • Homework assistance • Referrals

Needs identified

• There is a need of food packs for people living with HIV/AIDS support groups • Food parcels for our OVC beneficiaries as the organization only provides them with daily cooked meals only during the week and on weekends the centre is closed. • Clothes and shoes for beneficiaries who are unable to afford decent clothing • Dignity packs for our teenagers has been a challenge as some of them rarely attend due to the not having sanitary pads when their on their periods. • Our beneficiaries have not been to camps or tours as part of debriefing.

Situational analysis

• Orphaned children face a number of vulnerabilities and risks, such as sexual exploitation and abuse ,hazardous child labour early sexual debut and marriage dispossession of property, poor emotional and mental health. Ma-Africa project serves the community based programs used across the Rockville and White City to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable. Furthermore due to the circumstances that prevailed Ma-Africa project occupies the position of relief, remedial and resilience building within the Rockville and White City community as an umbrella institution which serves the community holistically

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