COTFONE

ORGANIZATION NAME:

COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION NETWORK (COTFONE-UGANDA)

P.O BOX 589, MASAKA-UGANDA

TEL: +256 78 2 920 995 , +256 75 3 472 146

Email: cotfoneorg@yahoo.com

Website: cotfone-uganda.blogspot.com

COTFONE’S MISSION STATEMENT:

To advocate for underprivileged children and empowering the communities to transform themselves socially, economically and culturally to become self sustaining.

COTFONE’S VISION STATEMENT:

Having a Ccmmunity where underprivileged children and community members are able to sustain themselves using their potential and live a better life.

BACKGROUND

COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION FOPUNDATION NETWORK (COTFONE-UGANDA ) is a community based charitable Non-Governmental Organization legally registered by the republic of Uganda under the National NGO Board-Uganda.

COTFONE-UGANDA was founded in 2003 by community members of kiwangala to address the alarming poverty situation and the need to care for Vulnerable children and orphans (OVCs) provoked by frequent migrations of youths to towns for better living standards and employment opportunities ,lack of social capital and unending HIV/AIDS cases and orphans.

KAYINGA MUDDU YISITO spearheaded the mobilization of the community members into this initiative.

COTFONE-UGANDA headquarters are located 158 km from Kampala in kisekka sub-county, Bukoto south county, Masaka District (125 km) Kampala – Masaka and 33 km Masaka-Kiwangala Road.

OBJECTIVES OF COTFONE –UGANDA

-To assist slum children, the orphaned and other vulnerable children (OVCs) through medical and educational support programs and to carry out intensive advocacy campaigns to enhance their rights.

- To mobilize and initiate income generating projects such as Live stock keeping, bee keeping, fruit growing etc for the self-sustenance of vulnerable children and their families.

- To carry out intensive mobilization and educational campaigns on reproductive health and family life education, to ensure good moral uprightness and prevention of sexually transmitted disease /infection (STD/I s), early preginances, divorce, wife bashings and other related problems among the poor communities.

- To promote and support health programs, counseling, nutrition, and childcare, AIDS awareness and prevention and provision of health services for the wellbeing of vulnerable children and communities.

By working with other National /International Organizations and Ugandan government, COTFONE-UGANDA hopes to realize its mission of providing the sustainable positive future for the community by empowering them to help them selves. Your cooperation in helping COTFONE fullfill it;s mission is of upmost importance to us.

Monday, June 2, 2008

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