KITOVU MOBILE AIDS ORGANISATION

Our Vision:::::To See an Empowered Community With the Ability to Cope with HIV and AIDS and its impacts:::::

 

 

 

Kitovu Mobile Premises

Community Volunteers

 

 

Background

“Kitovu Mobile” was started by the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) in the year 1987 as a response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the district of Rakai. By then, they were based at Kitovu Hospital. . more

Programs

The Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation work through Programmes which include more

Coverage

Areas of operation. more

Sensitization on VCT done in schools

 

Welcome

The focus of the Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation (Kitovu Mobile) is to enable orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) who have completed their primary education to continue with secondary and tertiary education. Every step a child moves ahead in their education gives them a better chance to survive.
Sr. Ursula Sharpe of Medical Missionaries of Mary initiated Kitovu Mobile in 1987, caring for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) in their homes. Counseling and HIV-related prevention programs were added. The first volunteer community worker joined Kitovu Mobile in 1987; now there are more than 700 community volunteers. Educational support for orphans became increasingly important as Kitovu Mobile developed. Thousands of orphans have received support with school fees, uniforms, and scholastic materials. Kitovu Mobile also supported the community's construction and rehabilitation of school buildings, teacher trainings and income-generating activities. Kitovu Mobile is currently supporting over 140 Orphans and Vulnerable children (OVC) in secondary schools and Tertiary Institutions for the whole of this year.
Kitovu Mobile is enabling OVC to acquire the education necessary to sustain them in life through the provision of school fees, exam fees, and other scholastic materials. To minimize both the short and long term psychological problems, we are providing individual, group and family counselling. We are also encouraging community participation and involvement in orphan care and support through regular community meetings with the beneficiaries.
Currently Kitovu Mobile is constituted of three major programmes which include:

1. Basic Home Care and Palliative
2. Orphans and Family support
3. Counselling and training

These programmes provide holistic care to people that have been infected and affected by HIV/AIDS within the four districts of Masaka, Rakai, Ssembabule and Lyantonde in central Uganda.

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