M-Lisada Africa Foundation

ASSISTANCE TO M-LISADA ORGANIZATION:ACHIEVEMENTS MADE IN 2021 BY M-LISADA ORGANIZATIONM-LISADA Organization managed to thrive amidst the global pandemic. Uganda was under lock down for a very long time and our schools were locked the longest in the whole world. This implied that children were home through out the year and they experienced abuse, neglect, child labour and even sacrifice. In 2021, our Organization hosted the highest number of children in the premises and this would never be possible if it was not for the commitment of our Board in carrying out fundraisings online for the Organization. 1.Our Organization designed a new system of service delivery to all school going children despite the lockdown. The schools in Uganda remained locked and most of the children lost their learning period. However, Our Organization was able to keep their teachers employed through out the year. Teachers delivered work for the children and at the end of the year all the children sat Home assessment examinations and 87% of the children passed their exams and are currently promoted on merit to the next classes.2.We registered academic excellence with our candidate class that sat final Uganda Examinations in 2021. There were 8 candidates who sat Primary Leaving Examinations and 4 got first grade with the best scoring 7 aggregates. 5 were in the second grade. 7 students sat Ordinary Level and did their Uganda Certificate Examinations and they performed well and all of them got admissions for their Advanced level. And 5 students sat Advanced level and all of them scored points that are sufficient for University admissions.3.Our Music department successfully recorded and shot music video in 2021. And carried an online concert that gave visibility for the Organization. Our Music is played in most of the local radio stations in Uganda.4.We accommodated, fed and transformed lives of over 250 children last year and we kept the children engaged through out the lockdown period. Broken children who were brought to our custody by the authorities were resettled to their families when they were healed and looked happier. Justice was given to the children who were abused by remanding the perpetrators of the victims.5.The adult children created a pilot choir consisting of 15 members, which in turn was able to teach the young ones. This enabled them to improve on their skills of facilitation and also build their self-esteem. Because of the big numbers, there was a significant growth in the choir due to an effective recruitment system that was administered.6.A more sustainable operating system has been created in the music department as concerns the borrowing and accountability of the musical instruments. It will help us be able to manage them well and give easy access of tracking where they will have been taken, who took them and when they would be returned.7.Due to an all access pass to the music room, the children have been able to improve on their skills when it comes to playing different instruments and execution of assignments is made easy as the children can be able to have time to do them when the normal time settings are done.8.M-LISADA Organization paid staff salaries throughout the year despite the financial challenges. Greet gratitude to out sponsors and the Board from the USA.9.We launched a community program at the beginning of the year 2021 and 475 children were in attendance and parents of all the children gave their support to the Organization. Community members gave free and safe places to the Organization so that our staff could meet with the children two times a week to offer services like Music, Life Skills, Psycho-social Support, Health and Mobile Library during the Lock down. Although the space at our premises was limited and many children from the community could not all come to our centre to attend the programs, our social workers were able to reach out to the children with the standard operating procedures.10.We trained 14 community mobilizers who were very passionate about their communities to work with our Organization during the implementation of the community programs. This made mobilization of children and parents very easy for our Organization and it created very good relationship with the wider community because our programs were extended to other communities.11.We carried out hygiene and sanitation program in partnership with the Uganda Peoples Defense Force and Kampala Capital City Authority. Members of the community joined us during the community cleaning and the community was very clean.12.Our Organization joined the rest of the world in celebrating the World Aids Day, Members of the community came willingly to test for HIV. In partnership with the Uganda Aids Support and the Red Cross Organizations, professional Doctors and counselors attended to people who were victims of the virus. COVID-19 Vaccinations were also administered to the people.13.We celebrated great academic achievements from our university graduates last year. Four of our students graduated from Public universities in the fields of Bachelors Degree in Law, International Relations, Public Health and Procurement and Supply Chain Management.