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.