ODASOV

The goal of Odasov  is to give victims of, and people left vulnerable by war the chance of future life, the opportunity of hope for a safe and better future with dignity, regardless of race, or article of faith. Our goal is to give the desperate some hope.

Area of work: orphanages, craftsmanship, promotion of women and children wellbeing, facilitates access to education, health, hygiene and alimentation, malnutrition.

Activities: projection of films to raise awareness of problem areas, facilitate workshops on various craft and trade such as bricklayer, carpenter, sewing, cobblers, bee keeping, fish breeding and how to mentor orphans.

Educate people in the prevention, diagnose and fight against AIDS

Distribute tools and seeds.

Project description

Given the atrocities committed during the war, the population that has returned to Walungu needs to be assisted in rebuilding their lives.

Some families who have weathered the dire circumstances better than others have been identified and designated as “welcoming centres”, they are part of the rehabilitation program.

These households are designated to receive the funding which gets distributed and which is to be used to start some mercantile enterprise in order to build a starting capital and increase their income which in turn will lead to autonomy.

The Public Sector is not capable to provide for this large portion of the “needy” population.

This is mainly due to the political instability experienced by the country as a whole for quite some time.

The whole project consists of taking charge and caring for a population of about 1,500 orphans and street kids – both males and females, whilst educating the population understanding the problems and raising awareness to promote general assistance within the group.

Specific actions

• Build and fit-out new centres to accommodate orphans as well as equipped them as necessary.
• Train educators and social workers
• Organise seminars about orphans and street kids issues
• Organise visit to existing centres in neighbouring countries.
• Set up a farm and a cooperative for farming products
• Identify the needy
• Receive identified youths and provide them with food, clothes and medication if needed and enrolled them in school
• Build and fit-out a training / apprenticeship centre equipped for bakery, carpentry, bricklaying and brick kiln, sewing for the youths.
• Set-tup a series of rotating loan of goats to 500 families in order for them to acquire financial independence
• Educate women and young girls about responsibility and prevention against Aids.
• Counsel women and young girls who have suffered from rape and assault to help them re-enter society

B. Beneficiaries

• Orphans and street kids
• Trainers and counsellors from both the public and private sector.
• Vulnerable and victim of war
• widows

Where street kids are concerned, insecurity, violence, exploitation and abuse of all kind are the main characteristics of their life.

Violence comes from the police whose role it is to maintain law and order.

Young females fall into prostitution, with resulting pregnancies leading to dangerous abortions and a variety of sexually transmitted diseases.

Sexually transmitted diseases and drugs are two themes systematically addressed by the social workers.