COMMUNITY OUTREACH

From the time of its establishment, Kayden Foundation International has been making community outreaches to different parts of Uganda. one of these is the Kawempe community outreach particularly Kiganda zone. This is an effort directed towards helping vulnerable pregnant women and teenage mothers.

Kayden Foundation International has registered tremendous success when it comes to community outreaches. For example in March 2022, Kayden team conducted an outreach in Kawempe area in the village known as Kiganda zone.

What was the target of Kiganda zone outreach?

One might be wondering why Kayden Foundation International chose Kiganda zone over other areas. The answer is that we target people but not the area. The organization has a heart of serving vulnerable pregnant women and teenage mothers from all corners of the world irrespective of where they stay or come from.

We partnered with authority / leaders of Kiganda zone, pregnant women and teenage mothers and other community stakeholders for the success of the outreach.   Indeed the outreach was a success!
Our target was extending a helping hand to the vulnerable mothers and pregnant women in Kiganda zone.

What exactly was done during the Kiganda zone community Outreach?

A lot of work was done during the Kiganda zone outreach and it included the following activities;

• Teaching pregnant women about postpartum care.
• Educating pregnant women on the recommendable food during and after pregnancy.
• Giving clothes to pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Encouraging teenage mothers to go back to school.
• Reconnecting teenage pregnant girls to their abandoned families.
• Preaching the word of God.

What are some of the stories of pregnant women and teenage mothers in Kiganda zone?

Like any other person in living on earth, Kiganda zone people have / had stories to tell. The fact that they are vulnerable people some of whom have experienced difficult lives at a young age, they all have touching stories. However, the beauty about their stories is that, after our conversation with them they assured us that they are hopeful that their stories will change in the shortest time possible. We give the glory back to God!

Below are some of the stories from the women and teenage mothers we met in Kiganda zone.

1. “I am mother of two kids, I have faced a number of challenges with rising the kids since my husband abandoned me and married another wife. When I was pregnant with my second child, I had to wash people’s clothes in order to be able to get some small money that would cater for my baby as well as the pregnancy. I regretted why I was leading such a life but God has been there for me up to this point. As a teenage mother I was challenged by the stigma from the people who were around me. I remember there is a day I intentionally poisoned my babies so that they could die. Fortunately they did not die. I did this in order to hurt their father who was not helping me. Everybody used to look at me as a nonsense until when I accepted Jesus as my personal savior.”
2. “I am the father and the mother of my two kids. I get a number of life challenges. I do not know what to do but I am trusting the Lord since I chose Him as my personal savior.
3. “I came to Uganda as a refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo some years back. I a mother of four kids and I am taking care of other two kids with whom I came from Congo. I met them during the war and I could not live them behind. Taking care of the kids has not been an easy venture for me but I hope God will continue to support me like He has always done. “
4. “I am 19 years old and I am 7 months pregnant. My parents chased me away from home. They told me to go and stay with the man who impregnated me.”
5. “I am 14 years old, I am 7 months pregnant. I was raped by a man who later ran away from the village. When I told my mother, she could not believe me and thus chased me from home claiming that I did it out of consent and I should go and stay with my so called husband. I now sleep at our church and I do not know what to do about my situation. I want to go back to school if I get an opportunity.”
6. “I was in my senior five when my boyfriend impregnated me during the covid-19 lockdown. When I told my boyfriend that I was pregnant, he ignored me, he does not answer my calls as well as providing anything. My mother is a matron of the school I was studying from. I am now staying with my brother. I am so desperate, I have nowhere to get what to eat. I also do not know where I am going to get clothes for my baby after giving birth. I wanted to become a nurse but I feel like my dream has been shattered however, I have hopes of going back to school after giving birth.”

 

Such are some of the few stories we know guess how much we have not known and it is happening it the world. They are bitter realities of life which we need join hands and find solutions for.