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Namungona Road near Kasubi Parents P/S
WE BELIEVE WOMEN & CHILDREN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!
OUR VISION: DOMINION RESCUE FOUNDATION (DRF) seeks to build self-sufficient communities where women and children survive and thrive living life to their full potential.
OUR MOTTO: Transforming communities through women and children.
OUR MISSION: We exist to respond to the plight of vulnerable women and children through community based approaches that empower them to be the change they want to see
We pursue a Women led development path. DRF delivers its model for social change by training local Children and women who often lack the opportunities for education and employment, and then mobilizing them to improve the care for their community’s most vulnerable babies and children. This lays the foundation for healthy development and a lifetime of benefits to the child who can grow to be a positive and active member of their family, community and society.
We understand that skills acquisition is key to transformation of children, women and community at large. We are guided by our hands-on model to facilitate an empowering process for the communities in ways that give them more control over their own resources through strengthening their analytical capacity, skills, and confidence to drive their own development. Our ideology is premised on understanding that the primary role of education is to change mindsets to those that are developmental.
DRF believes that the ECD approach being taken at the learning centres designed on the three (3) components of Talk, Read and Play present…
Effective measures, both preventive and corrective, to protect children from all these forms of violence and mistreatment and direct support…
Early childhood diarrhoea is not only deadly; it also contributes to Uganda’s high levels of stunting, which in turn affects children’s cognitive…
We at DRF believe that art and literature can have a profound effect on the present and future…
To address this challenge DRF will seek to seek mind-set change by engaging local farmers in modern farming both in the rural and…
Integrated approaches are required to tackle discriminatory social norms through delivery platforms such as community dialogue…
Young women lack the assertiveness required to protect themselves from risky situations…
Uganda has one of the youngest populations on the African continent (UNICEF, 2015), Children comprise up to 56% of Uganda’s population, yet they continue to be seen as secondary. By 2014, Uganda had a population of 40 million people, including about 19 million children (UNICEF Uganda statistics, 2019). The living conditions for this important group of the Ugandan society is anything you would call undesirable. Children continue to live in conditions characterized by inadequate access to education and health services, biting poverty in homes, exploitation and violence. The given living conditions for children in Uganda undermine the four cardinal rights of a child to survival, development, protection and participation. Kidnapping, child murdering, and child sacrifice remain widespread in Uganda.
In Uganda, the prevalence of gender-based violence and discrimination against girls and women remains high. In this context, DRF pays particular attention to the vulnerabilities that girls and women face such as sexual violence, early and forced marriages, forced labour, child labour, trafficking, barriers in access to education, etc. Violence against girls and (young) women and the denial of their economic rights stand in the way of achieving substantive gender equality and increase their vulnerability to child labour, child trafficking and (commercial) sexual exploitation. Once trapped in physical and economic forms of exploitation, it is even harder to turn this around, more so because both forms of discrimination and exploitation are driven and endorsed by the same set of norms and values. Therefore, DRF will not only address economic and physical aspects of gender-equality; It will also address underlying social-cultural norms and the policies and legislation that reflect and sustain these norms and values
We believe that if we tackle the discriminatory perceptions, attitudes and practices that underpin and condone violence against women; and if we equip young women and girls with the tools, skills and knowledge to be financially independent and to challenge patriarchal structures; we will create an environment in which girls’ can exercise their agency to challenge the status quo, resist abuse, and discrimination.
