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Namutumba District (Eastern Uganda)

Vision Save for Vulnerable Children and Women has 20 volunteers supporting the two Namutumba District County constituencies of Busiki and Bukono. This because according to the National Population and Housing Census 2014.

The Illiteracy status Rate was 72 percent among persons aged 10 years and above. Out of the 17.7 million persons of working age (aged 14 to 64 years), 13.8 million (78 percent) were working in the (Labour Force), with the most common occupation being subsistence farming (65%)

At personal level, vulnerability is a state of being in which a person is likely to be in a risky situation, suffering significant physical, emotional, or mental harm that may result in his/her human rights not being fulfilled (MoGLSD, 2004).

The 2014 Census measured some of the dimensions of Child Vulnerability. The results show high levels of vulnerability as highlighted below;

• One in every eight (12.5%) of children aged 6 – 12 Years were not in school;
• Two out of every 25 (8%) children less than 18 years of age were orphaned;
• One in every 16 (6% ) of the girls aged 12 to 17 years had already given birth;
• One in every 15 (6.5%) of the girls aged 12 – 17 had ever been in a marriage union;
• Seven out of every 10 Children (70%) aged less than five years did not have a Birth certificate. (UBOS 2014)

Map of namutumba district

OUR HISTORY OUR INSPIRATION

For five years, Vision Save for Vulnerable Children and Women has been committed to supporting children in need, youth and vulnerable women. From our founder Mwondha Bosco sacrificing his first monthly salary of $100 to help care for three orphaned children without hope of sitting for their primary leaving exams due to lack of school fees to supporting an abandoned dying teenage girl after giving birth to a child, since the traditional attendant could not give her any more herbs without clearing the bill. VSVCW has reached out to support the most vulnerable children, youth and women.  So, our mission continues.

Mwondha Bosco Pierce founded Vision Save for Vulnerable Children and Women in 2016, one year after he came face to face with an abandoned teenager and three orphans without school fees and chose not to look away. Determined, his monthly income of $100 wasn’t enough given the increasing number of vulnerable children within the community, he knew more people had to be involved for a long-term solution and broader impact.  Initially the organization focused on sponsorship of three orphan. Today Vision Save for Vulnerable Children and Women is sponsoring 25 of 50 children identified and 10 of 40 youth identified and assessed within Namutumba District both at primary and vocational education respectively. 

 

Mwondha Bosco the founder and Director of Vision Save for Vulnerable Children and Women was burdened by what he both witnessed and what he experienced through his childhood. At the age of 12 years, Bosco had not realized his full potential as a pupil due to lack of school fees and scholastic material. He was sent home for more than 8 times in a term and failed to sit for his primary promotional examinations for four years due to lack schools’ fees, this was a frustrating moment since his parents could not afford. All through secondary school, life did not get any better, he had to register for dead years twice while pursuing his three-year bachelor’s degree in Accounting in IUIU. In 2014 after witnessing 15 pupils being denied to sit for their primary leaving exams due to lack of school fees was the starting point of the passionate journey to support the most vulnerable access quality education through sponsorship programs and increasing access to health and nutrition services for vulnerable women.