Kamucira health center IV staff visit to PROUD Uganda

Staff members of  Kamucira health centre IV visit children and teachers of PROUD UG

The staff from Kamucira health center IV came to Proud Uganda to teach the girls about the hygiene when they are in menstruation periods. 

They also taught the care takers (skills trainers) of Proud Uganda how to calculate the menstruation cycles for children, whereby they said that women or girls have different cycles but the normal cycle for a person are 28 days and 30 days. They explained the caretakers to always write down the day a girl joins periods such that they are aware of the cycle of everyone. (Cycle calendar)

Written by Kiki

Policy The village association

vzw The village is the Flemish association that supports the PROUD-project in Kabale. Recently, the first generation of volunteers has said goodbye to The village. We sincerely thank them for their contribution. In the field of investment in the project in Uganda, we have achieved remarkable

results in recent years.

Our association will set new accents for the future. We will integrate the operations in Flanders and Uganda more. There will be one integrated work plan vzw The village-PROUD UG CBO-WORK UG CBO. And there will be mutual participation.

We are going to explicitly distance ourselves from the charitable approach. There is as much talent and potential in Africa as there is in Europe. However, relations between the continents have been completely distorted for a long time and the members of the association must be aware of this.

Finally, we value children and young people with intellectual disabilities as other children. We want to give them full opportunities to develop and do not see them as minus variants of children without disabilities.

Praise grows sweet potatoes

                                                         Sweet potatoes and pumpkin

At WORK Uganda last year 2019 the children of group 2 were asked to make the choices of the crops they like to grow in their personal garden. Every child gave the choice of the crops and they were given each a plot where to plant. And one of the children who is Ayebare Praise chose to grow sweet potatoes. She grew them with the guide from her skills trainer and now they are ready to harvest. The sweet potatoes from the garden of Praise are very sweet other children comments.

By Kiki

Pumpkins harvested at PROUD Village

Pumpkin plants are grown at Proud Village by the children together with their skills trainers.

They take care of the pumpkin plants such as weeding together with their skills trainer Wednesday Immaculate. 

When the pumpkin fruits start developing the skills trainer guides the children to cover them with pumpkin leaves to avoid being destroyed by sunshine. 

When the pumpkin fruit becomes big the skills trainer harvests it by hand picking and is taken to the kitchen for the children to eat. The children like enjoying eating the pumpkins which are cooked together with the dry beans.

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Changemakers : Kiki, het gezicht van PROUD UG

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Changemaker Kiki van PROUD UG met 3 leerlingen

In lage inkomenslanden, zelfs in vrij open landen als Oeganda, is de sociale situatie van kinderen met een beperking niet benijdenswaardig. Kinderen met een verstandelijke beperking worden vaak thuis gehouden en scholen vinden het maar niks hun tijd met deze kinderen te verliezen. Andere kinderen worden ‘ter bewaring’ naar afgelegen plaatsen gebracht...

Je moet tegen de stroom oproeien als je aan deze kinderen een toekomst wil bieden. En soms rare dingen horen -niet plezant. Maar het PROUD project wil tonen dat ook kinderen en jongeren met een verstandelijke beperking kunnen leren, werken en goede buren zijn. Door hen in plaats van geen zorg (verwaarlozing) of nutteloze ‘black bord’ activiteiten een liefdevolle omgeving en een functioneel curriculum aan te bieden.

Kiki maakte aan de Universiteit van Kabale een verhandeling over hoe zo’n curriculum er uit moet zien. Ze onderscheidde vier grote velden:

1- training in zelfredzaamheid met accenten op hygiëne (b.v. menstruatie zorg) en voorkomen;

2- deelname aan het familiale leven met een accent op huishoudelijke vaardigheden (b.v. leren klaarmaken van traditionele Oegandese gerechten);

3- deelname aan het gemeenschapsleven met accenten op communicatieve (b.v. aankopen doen op de markt) en sociale vaardigheden;

4- deelname aan het economisch leven met bijzondere aandacht voor productieve -b.v. tuinieren- en commerciële -b.v. home stay- activiteiten.

Het programma draait om functionele vaardigheden d.w.z. vaardigheden die de jongeren nu of in hun toekomstig leven nodig zullen hebben. Het programma is met andere woorden levensecht en contextgevoelig. Het krijgt een typisch Oegandese invulling.

Tegelijkertijd vindt Kiki dat partiële participatie in volwaardige economische activiteiten en omgevingen een betere strategie is om adolescenten met een verstandelijke beperking tot hun recht te laten komen dan hen in afzondering typische bezigheden voor gehandicapten te laten doen. Wil u bijvoorbeeld onthaald worden door jongeren met een verstandelijke beperking in Kiki’s homestay, dan bent u er zeker welkom!

Geschreven door Pele

Harvesting sukumawiki

Harvesting sukumawiki

At Proud Uganda sukumawiki is grown in the garden and it yields much. Ignitious and Sarah like harvesting the sukumawiki. Sukumawiki is a leafy vegetable and it’s enrich with vitamin A. This sukumawiki also improves on the balanced diet of the children of the project. Therefore children at the project are healthy due to the fact that they feed on vegetables. The project not only grows sukumawiki but also a variety of other vegetables such as broccoli, cabbages, cauliflowers, spinach, black night shed and many others.

By Kiki

Mission 13 Project transition from school to work

Preparing traditional dishes

I held discussions with the gardener, Immaculate, the external gardening consultant, Ronald and the cook, Apophia, about the progress of the "Transition from school to work project". This project is supported by the Province of East Flanders and focuses on teaching skills related to gardening and cooking.

With Mercy and Josephine, the project leader and her assistant, I look at the reporting on the transition project. This week we are working on the profiles of the 5 students involved and their individual action plans.

Gardening

To evaluate the progress made by the students, we fill in the "Gardening skills questionnaire" and the "Cooking skills questionnaire" together with the teachers and the students.

Information about the progress of the transition project can be found in the quarterly reports of PROUD Uganda and in the minutes of meetings with the parents.

To engage the students well, there are individual conversations, group discussions and photo albums. Each participant keeps an album with photos of activities in the kitchen, the garden and others e.g. meetings, pick up a report, etc.

Photo albums transition project