Background
Choose Life Home Base Care (CLHBC) is a community based organisation founded by the Sacred Heart Sisters in Moroto in 2007. Together with a group volunteer and educators CLHBC promotes positive living and care for HIV/AIDS people including children affected and infected.
Objective
To provide comprehensive and holistic care and support services for the adults and children infected and affected with HIV/AIDS to improve their quality of life and enable them to choose life and live positively.
Activities
I. Choose Life Home Based Care (adult programme)
- Regular home visits (making sure they are taking ARVs, eating properly)
- Individual counselling and individual review
- Group meetings and sharing
- Volunteers networking meetings
- Psycho-social support
- Referral to the hospital as needed.
- Family Guidance/ counselling
- Follow up in the voluntary counselling and test, in Moroto hospital.
- Community awareness campaigns: to extend awareness on HIV/AIDS outside Moroto Municipality to prevent new infections and re-infections in three villages per quarter.
- Income generating activities :Tailoring
- World Aids Day district
- Support on burials
- Support for orphans (embraced by family)
II. School of Life (children programme)
- Tuition support for the most needy
- Provision of scholastic materials
- School follow up with regular school visits
- Psycho-social support
- Domestic and family follow up through regular home visits
- After school programme
- Saturday activities
- Holiday activities
Results
- Stigma and discrimination is overcome
- Life is lived with dignity
- A sense of solidarity among patients grows and there is readiness to help each other
- Family spirit has gained the community (sense of belonging)
People being served
People being served : People who are marginalised
Age group : Adults 26-60, Children 0-17, Young people 18-25
Number of participants : 51-100
Schedule
Project status : Ongoing
Collaborations
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Overview
Society presence : Uganda/Kenya
Focus of the project : People
JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed
UN Sustainable Development Goals : 1 No Poverty, 3 Good Health and Well being, 4 Quality Education
