Touching Hearts, Transforming Lives
PROFILE
GENERAL INFORMATION
| Name | Comfort Africa Ltd |
| Adress | P O Box 9491 Kampala – Uganda |
| Contact Person | Mrs. Beatrice Nabulwala Oburu Managing Director Comfort Africa P O Box 9491 Kampala Uganda Email: nabuzaleh@yahoo.com |
| Contact Person 2 | Ms. Abello Suzan Okae P O Box 9491 Kampala Tel: +256-782 -969462 Email: outstandingokae@yahoo.com |
| Contact Person 3 | Pr. Martin Ochieng Ngollah Harvest Vision Africa Tel: +256-776-842843 Email: ngollah@yahoo.com |
BACK GROUND:
Comfort Africa is a Christian based organization operating in Uganda with its head quarters in Kampala. Comfort Africa grew out of a weekly fellowship of young women in 2007. During the fellowships, the young women used to worship together, pray and intercede for one another, their country, friends and family, communities, ministry and share the word of God together. These young women then felt a conviction to change hearts and transform lives of the most vulnerable people in communities, putting emphasis on the children in need and at the greatest risk in Uganda and Africa
Comfort Africa Vision: To create a society where the African child lives in comfort, free from social evils and injustices.
Comfort AfricaMission: To Nurture the African Child in a loving Christian based relationship as a way of promoting pro-poor values and upholding social justice issues.
Comfort Africa Objectives include the following among others:
a. Advance strategies to protect children from physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse.
b. Reach out to children at risk by ministering the unconditional love of God to hurting hearts.
c. To satisfy the information needs of the local people by devising practical strategies through which information technologies (IT) are made accessible and stable in rural communities.
d. To promote intergenerational learning where the young and the old can share ideas and learn from each other through dialogue, electronic discussion boards, music, dance and drama, art and craft.
e. Support women, children, and grandparents living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
f. Create a platform and generate ideas to help reduce the HIV/AIDS prevalence particularly among the African girl children.
g. Increase literacy levels and education through IT strategies and facilities to the rural African children in need.
h. promote inter-generational learning where the young and the old can share ideas and learn from each other through dialogue, electronic discussion boards, music, dance and drama, art and crafts
i. To Network with other organizations that share Comfort Africa values and ideology.
j. To provide basic housing care, rehabilitation, education and bible training to street children leading to reintegration in to the community.
k. To mobilize Christians through seminars and sensitization programmes towards the noble task of bettering the lives of the less priviledges in our societies by contributing to their resources and potentials towards the same..
l. To afford help for the needy as far as the limits of our potentials can ebanble us visit the sick, prisoners, comfort the afflicted, help in the rehabilitation of prisoners, promiote Christian works of mercy and widen the frontiers of knowledge.
m. To print and publish news papers, periodicals, books or leaflets which the association may think desirable for the promotion of the objectives of the association.
n. To acquire land and buildings for the carrying out of such projects and other projects that will be decided and approved by the organization.
o. To sell, manage, lease mortgages, dispose of or otherwise deal with all or part of the property of the organization.
p. To start up an orphanage to provide a home for the children who become orphans as a result of child abuse, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and any other natural disasters.
q. To improve the quality of rural youths, orphans, children with disabilities lives through provision of training skills that help them to start a job/business, earn an income and be self reliant.
r. To provide counseling to the children especially the orphans, children with disabilities, adolescents and youths about sexual promiscuity and drug abuse.
COMFORT AFRICA BENEFICIARIES AND STAKEHOLDERS:
The primary beneficiaries of Comfort Africa are most vulnerable orphaned children at risk in communities. Other beneficiaries are the vulnerable youth and women, grandmothers struggling with life, people, both children and the elderly with disabilities.
Comfort Africa Values:
The values of Comfort Africa are based on the principles of:
(a) Love
(b) Service beyond self
(c) Courage
(d) Integrity
(e) Respect
(f) Team work
(g) Empathy
(h) Unity in Diversity
(i) Dependability
(j) Innovations and Creativity
WHAT WE DO:
Comfort Africa has four major programs and they include following.
Child Care and Education Program:
This program entails nurturing the children in a loving Christian family, bringing them up to be happy and cheerful little soldiers of the most high, and providing education services, empowering them to lead better lives. The child care and education program will reintegrate the most vulnerable children in to families where the love of God is ministered to them, enabling the children to overcome all the fears and social injustices they have gone through through encouragement, counseling, and ministering the Love of God to them..
The program also offers quality education to the children, giving them a foundation to be effective competitors with all the other people of the world as the world today is very competitive and education is one factor that enables people to succeed in life.
At the moment,, Comfort Africa is sponsoring 20 under privileged children from a very poor background. These children are attached to different schools in their communities. Our Vision is to have a school where all our children study together in one vicinity, supporting and encouraging each other in this life.
The Child Sponsorship Program:
In the child sponsorship program, we look out for individuals, groups of people, or organizations that can partner with us in the upbringing of the children through sponsoring a child or children’s basic needs such as education, food, shelter and clothing among others. Whosover partners with us in this venture plays a very critical role in building the Kingdom of God, and enable a child to leav and lead a comfortable life free from This world’s social injustices.
Alive and Healthy Program:
The Alive and Healthy program entails different activities such as healthy living sensitization, nutrition sensitization for first child young mothers, hospital outreach and evangelism, community health outreach were communities shall be granted free health services. The Alive and healthy program also includes sensitization of communities especially the youth’s on sexual reproductive health through school outreach, community outreach, awareness creation and sensitization.
This program grew out of the need to create awareness on health issues in communities. In rural communities, many people mistake cancers for witchcraft, and never seek medical advice until the cancers have reached a fatal state. Many youth’s think that abstinence is an old fashioned lifestyle and therefore need to be made aware of the value of virginity and abstinence.
Economic Empowerment Program
The Economic Empowerment Program (EEP) entails empowering the youths, women and people with disabilities economically through training beneficiaries with income generating skills.
ACTIVITIES THAT COMFORT AFRICA HAS PERFORMED:
The following are the activities that Comfort Africa has performed so far.
Education:
Comfort Africa is currently supporting 20 children, offering them scholastic materials, and education service. The children are maintained in the schools around the community, or the schools nearest to the children so that they can always travel back home safely. We look out for partners who can work with us to offer scholastic materials and support a child or children with school dues.
Hospital Outreach:
Comfort Africa has performed hospital outreach and evangelism in Mulago Hospital Kampala. We go to hospitals, pray for the sick, evangelize the gospel, lead the people to Christ, encourage them, and offer some food items to the patients.
Youth Empowerment:
In partnership with Harvest Vision Church, a one day youth empowerment seminar was held, empowering youth to become self confident, think big and realize their potential to do exploits in the Kingdom of God and in the competitive world.
School Outreach:
Comfort Africa has conducted school outreach in schools especially secondary schools preaching the gospel of God, and empowering the youths to be better people.
Economic Empowerment:
Comfort Africa has supported women economically, encouraging women to make paper beads that Comfort Africa buys from them then sells off the beads to support the 20 children that CA is currently taking care of.
PARTNERS:
Comfort Africa believes in the power of partners and networks. We are open to individuals and groups that would like to partner with us to support this call/Vision of nurturing the marginalized communities and children, and comforting them with the love of our father God.
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