Causes: Children & Youth, International, International Relief, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The Village2Village Project mission is to provide comprehensive, empowering, respectful and compassionate care for vulnerable children and their families, one life at a time. Our priority is children who have at least one parent affected by HIV/AIDS or violence, and their families. We serve in Serere, Uganda; a district of rural villages in the Teso region of northeastern Uganda.
Target demographics: transform children with stolen futures into tomorrow's leaders
Direct beneficiaries per year: 130 families --comprehensive care for 165 children from age 2 to University level; 100 guardians, including medical and nutritional care for 30 HIV+ adults; we fed nearly 5000 people during famine relief for two weeks, and provided 1000 primary students with new, clean sanitation facilities at school.
Geographic areas served: rural northeastern Uganda in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Programs: Village2Village Project makes lasting change in Ugandan communities by investing deeply in vulnerable children and families, building leaders and changing lives one at a time. We do this through comprehensive, holistic family based support for individual children from preschool through the university level. Village2Village Project also provides support to the children’s guardians, who in most cases are extended family members. We recognize the need to keep families from being separated and provide the resources needed to empower the guardians to care for both the V2V children in their care, and their own children. Our Hope Ministry program provides intense nutritional and medical support for 11 HIV+ children, as well as those with other critical long term medical problems such as Cerebral Palsy, asthma, Sickle Cell Disease, severe scoliosis, multiple organ differences, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Hope Ministry also provides nutritional support, microloans, savings groups, and peer counseling for more than HIV+ adults who are guardians to our children, along with others with life threatening illnesses.