Medical centers

High-tech medicine and the latest equipment are not the goal of FYO Medical Centers. The aim is to provide basic and emergency care, education in the fields of hygiene, nutrition and the prevention of disease, vaccination programs and childbirth services.

Overview

The medical facilities run by FYO work to meet the basic medical needs of the people in their surrounding areas.

So far FYO has set up four medical centers to help people who have little or no access to medical facilities nearby. FYO attaches it self to already existing centers with a plan to set up our own in the future. The centres are able to provide basic local medical needs, cover specialist needs such as obstetrics and provide preventative medical services.

The aim of these Medical Centers is to improve the standards of public health in the local communities to play a preventive role through information and vaccination programs, to reduce infant mortality rates, to stabilize and feed up undernourished children and to provide first aid in the case of accidents.

The clinics are open six days a week and normally offer out-patient treatment and preventive medicine (vaccinations, prophylactics, nutrition, first aid, etc). Some clinics also have their own laboratory, a small ward and a pharmacy. They have a qualified staff of state registered nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians and doctors.

One of the biggest challenges of the past few years and for the future has been and will be the dramatic increase in HIV/AIDS. This is especially the case in many African countries. The rate of HIV infections has taken on such proportions that the social basis, the economic strength and the inner structures of whole communities have been weakened.They now stand before challenges, which Uganda is unable to cope with.

The Medical centers must also develop new concepts and strategies in order to be able to react to the changing demands. An increasing number of information campaigns about the risk of infection and against discrimination against AIDS infected people are being carried out in many of the centers, especially in the African countries. Advice and support is being offered to the relatives of people with HIV as well as treatment for those infected.

Foundation for Young Orphan's primary mission is to reach out to the Orphans and "Street Children", and their families by helping them have a better life now and a constructive future through initiating community sustainable projects and programs aimed at uplifting the standard of life of the rural communities through our aims and objectives.

Our Aims and Objectives:

1.     Uplift economic standards of orphans in our nation through creation of employment opportunities.

2.     To create a source and solicit for funds and other contributions by which the initiative can afford to run it’s activities and satisfy all it’s objectives.

3.     To develop, maintain and promote the welfare of orphans by setting up income generating activities.

4.     To contribute to the reduction of health epidemic prevalence through mobilization and sensitization of young people, youth and elders on health and physical issues.

5.     To integrate behavioral change and communication through interactions and participation youths in the area. Therefore strengthening peer-to peer coordination.

6.     To assist the rural families to overcome poverty and the hopelessness by easing the financial burden of many families who are caring for orphans, provide an opportunity for financial self sufficiency from which the whole family unit can benefit and by so doing ensure that some of the root-causes of poverty are redressed.

7.     To provide education and an opportunity for orphans to grow up in a caring family and environment.

To avoid cultivating aid dependency. This is done by providing the assistance in the form of either a loan or a once-only gift (seed money) for the specific purpose of achieving the goal of self-sufficiency.