About Us
Child Friendly organisation Uganda ( CFOU) is a non-Governmental organisation which was established in 2002 we registered as a CBO in 2009 and NGO in 2019. It promotes the rights of orphans and vulnerable children. The Organisation has an interest in reaching out OVC in the rural setting and has its permanent offices in a rural sub-county in Busede Jinja District.
Our mission is to contribute towards improved quality of life of Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) through psychosocial support, increasing access, advocacy, empowerment and cooperating with other Organizations both local and international.
CFOU engages in Psycho-Social activities to support the personal and social development of traumatized and vulnerable children, Advocacy activities related to fulfilling the orphans and vulnerable children’s rights. Capacity building for youths, a local leader, orphans and their caregivers.
Skills training for youths/adolescents in soap making, sewing, knitting and basic use of a computer. Organizational capacity building of CFOU (including staff training in child and adolescent counseling/therapy and accounting, training of board members, training of volunteers, networking and advocacy methods and children’s right). We produced two psycho-social modules to be used in different organizations and by volunteers within CFOU.
Our vision is A Uganda with Health children accessing quality and equitable services through a holistic approach
PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED
- The intervention was to contribute to reduction of maternal mortality among women of reproductive age in the five sub-counties of Buyende District (2017-2018) funded byAmbassadors’ Self Help USAID Kampala
- Nielsen fond Denmark funded the construction of CFOU Premises and Centre for the children (2017)
- Empowerment of orphans and vulnerable children through skilling in Busede Jinja District by USAID PEPFAR (2017-2018)
- Skilling teenage mothers in tailoring and hair dressing in Jinja supported by One step Denmark (2018)
- The aim of the intervention was to empower communities in two Parishes of Nalinaibi and Kisasi in Busede Sub County, Jinja district- Uganda, to fulfill the rights of the Orphans and Children living with HIV/AIDS according to UN’s convention on the rights of children. (2018-2020) supported by CISU Civil Society in Development (CISU)and Senior without Borders SWB Denmark
- Make CFOU’s psycho-social model available for other organizations(2021-2024) SWB Denmark
- CRVPF funding the girl power programme under a consortuim (Child Friendly organisation Uganda- the lead, Bugembe youths Family and Empowerment of children and Households (ECHO) funded 2023-2026