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STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP IN THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HIPPOPOTAMUS IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK IN KASESE DISTRICT

Uganda is home to an incredible array of animal species, making it one of the most bio diverse countries on the planet yet, Uganda’s precious hippopotamus is continuously declining in population because of multiple threats specifically poaching for cultural and bush meat exploitation. Good Hope Foundation for Rural Development withRead More

Community members launch a war on Poachers of Hippopotamuses in queen Elizabeth national park

Good Hope Foundation together with the community wildlife ambassadors organized neighborhood assembly which is a community parliament through which community members come together to dialogue on a community challenge and come up with community-based solutions. The neighborhood assembly attracted 116 (57m and 49f) people from Bukangara village which neighbors queenRead More

SANITY RESTORED IN SCOVIA’S HOME

As it is said, a violent home is non- habitable. This was the case for Masika Scovia’s home. Her husband has been violent all through her marriage. He has been drinking alcohol throughout the time she got married to him. “Alcohol makes him more violent to an extend of hittingRead More

A Bright light shinning

When Good Hope Foundation with support from Children’s rights and violence prevention fund (CRVPF) introduced school clubs in the communities, many children rejoiced and thought “the long wait is over”. They viewed this as an opportunity to gain more class knowledge and also gather to share experiences of how theRead More

Hope for Adolescents out of school.

The adolescents and youths out of school have been targeted to build their skills to participate in prevention of violence against them and challenge their negative practices towards violence against children and adolescents. The youths out of school are among the victims and also among the perpetrators of different formsRead More

Raising awareness on peaceful co-existence

Good hope foundation is implementing a project on increasing tangible benefits from Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to communities neighboring the protected areas of Queen Elizabeth as well as raising awareness about peaceful co-existence between front line communities and the conservation area. We are working with the District Environment Office andRead More

Enhancing improved cook stove utilization in Bukonzo East constituency

Good Hope Foundation in partnership with WWF-Uganda is implementing a project on providing Information about access to renewable clean energy technologies among the community members of our project coverage areas, and encouraging and supporting them to voluntarily plant trees to modify the climate. We distribute and link community members toRead More

Accelerating epidemic control in fort portal region

Good Hope Foundation for Rural Development in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) with funds from USAID is implementing a project on Accelerating epidemic control in fort portal region using the “Bi-directional clinical, community and OVC referrals, linkages and service delivery implementation strategy. We serve a numberRead More

Chairperson local council ones warned against injustices against women and children.

Local council one chair persons have been warned against handling defilement cases and other injustices cases against women and children in their homes. At the function of commemorating the 16days of Activism at Mundongo Primary school in Nyakiyumbu Sub County, the Resident District Commissioner of Kasese Lt. Joe Walusimbi soundedRead More

Community driven Approaches for Prevention of Violence against Children and Adolescents in Kasese District.

The project is built on the notion that community-driven approaches to prevent violence against children is sustainable and recognizes community as the strong board to prevent violence against children. The project is implemented at family, community and school level and it targets parents at household level to build their skillsRead More