Who We Are
Fecane Child Foundation is a community Based organization (CBO) based in Wakiso, the city of Uganda. It was founded in 2020 as a slum youth initiative under the patronage of Mr Badru Kalanzi Shafic. Starting as a community-based organization (CBO) during the period of Covid 19 in the Country and whole world. Fecane initially focused to support the vulnerable children (orphanages, homeless) and youths from the streets of Kampala and in the crowded places of Wakiso Uganda through provision holistic transformation, mobilization resources and establish educational opportunities, welfare, facilitate rehabilitation plus teaching them religious values and morals. In 2023 Fecane was officially registered as a CBO and a company and expanded its activities according to the needs assessment carried out in an early state of its operation. Following an early intervention approach, Fecane decided to focus its programs on the most vulnerable children and youths from the slum community, most of whom being school dropouts and orphans.
Mission
To restore hope among vulnerable (orphanages, homeless) and communities that have been affected by poverty, abuse, violence, disease and other natural calamities
Vision
Communities where children and their caregivers are empowered to improve their own livelihood through appropriate and affordable alternatives
Core Values
¥ Transparency
Fecane Child Foundation guarantees a transparent way of operating with a proper accountability system, which implies a responsible management of funding and community resources.
¥ Community participation
Fecane Child Foundation believes that a sustainable community empowerment can only be succeeded by community participation and ownership. Therefore the target community is involved in project design and implementation.
¥ Resource orientation
Fecane Child Foundation’s approach implies a start from the available community resources, regarding our target group as subjects with a wide range of individual potentials and experts of their reality
¥ Social cohesion
Fecane Child Foundation is working with a heterogenic target group from different cultural and religious settings. Core value of our work approach are the fundamental human rights, which regard every human being as equal, not regarding their tribe, their religious believes or cultural norms
Area of Intervention
Wakiso District comprises of slum areas for example Bwaise, which accommodates approximately a great number of inhabitants. As most of the informal settlements of Bwaise was built into a swamp, which causes serious floods during the rainy season. Part of its residents came from rural areas of Uganda, seeking for employment in the capital city. Others came as internally displaced people, who fled to the capital from war affected areas in northern Uganda. Moreover Bwaise and Nansana accommodates a high number of refugees from neighbouring countries as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and Ethiopia, forced to flee from poverty, famine, intertribal conflicts and war.
Half of Bwaise’s population is living in informal settlement, hoping for an improvement of their own living conditions. Fled from poverty in their places of origin, they now are confronted again with a challenging situation, as they face a lack of access to most of the basic public resources such as water supply, sanitation, health care and education.
Accordingly, the unemployment rate within the informal settlement is tremendously high. Apart from that, over the past years the population of Bwaise struggled with an increase of HIV-infections, which caused a large number of households headed by orphaned children. As all of the affected families face a lack of financial resources, they are not able to provide the monthly amount of school fees. That is why the majority of the children have very limited access to formal school education. Moreover, a high number of children are forced in labour in order to secure the daily income of their families. Consequently, Bwaise has to struggle with a large number of school dropouts, whose future prospective is accordingly limited. Criminality, early pregnancies, forced marriage, prostitution and drug abuse are some of the major problems the area has to deal with.
Qualitative Impact
The real impact of our work is seen in the transformed lives of the children and communities we serve. Stories of resilience, academic achievement, and personal growth are a testament to the effectiveness of our programs. Children who were once living on the streets are now thriving in school and dreaming of a brighter future. Girls who faced significant barriers are now empowered and confident in their abilities. These success stories inspire us to continue our mission with renewed vigor.
Target Group
The direct beneficiaries of Fecane’s activities are the most vulnerable children and youths living in informal settlements. Living in an unprotected environment, struggling with a wide range of challenges, children and youths are in particular at high risk of becoming victims of rape or other physical violence, drug abuse and forced child labour. Moreover, the lack of literacy and sensitisation results in an increased risk of HIV infection.
Having a very limited access to formal education, the future prospective of the targeted children and youths remains a challenge to them and the community.
Fecane’s work approach implies the empowerment of the target group at an early stage in order to reduce the risk of them becoming victims of their circumstances, unable to mobilise own resources.
Major Objective
To provide a holistic transformation of vulnerable children, youth and disadvantaged communities by offering training, empowerment and exposure to life changing innovations.
Specific Objectives
- Increase of access to public resources and future prospective for the most vulnerable children and youths in the slum area of Wakiso District
- Raise community awareness in terms of health and hygiene matters as well as human rights issues.
- Social and economic capacities of families in the community are strengthen in a long term.