Queen Elizabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF) is Community Based Organization that has been in existence since 2018 with the mission to help the needy by adopting practical ways to root out poverty from the world through provision of health, education and livelihood services to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC). QEMF emphasizes more on the HIV infected and affected populations in communities near Queen Elizabeth National Park in western part of Uganda with the aim of extending its services to the whole country and internationally. We have experience in supporting vulnerable children and adolescents, who do not go to school due lack of support in raising scholastic materials and the necessary dues at school. It has been observed that such categories fall victim of circumstances like sexual harassment, food denial, child labour and their health is deprived. These challenges hinder them from achieving their career potentials.
QEMF’s projects generate support from key stakeholders/donors to champion mechanisms to end Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Wildlife protection, early child marriages and teenage pregnancies, ensuring safe delivery of age-appropriate reproductive health education. QEMF offers child education and protection support, livelihood skilling and health promotion to orphans, vulnerable children, women and youth both in school and out of schools through empowering them with SRH information, integration of education and training and implementing a systematic behavior change communication campaign to transform attitudes of target community on wildlife crime and eradicate gender based violence and empower affected families, women and youths to know there is hope and recourse to the violence.
The Organization works in collaboration with local groups, local leaders and other organizations through partnership in order to raise awareness on SGBV issues, improve people’s livelihood and improving prevention care and treatment for TB/HIV/AIDS in Kanungu district.
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