SPAU mobilises single parents into small units called “SPAU groups�, reflective of the various communities in which they originate and also in which SPAU operates. A typical SPAU group consists of between 15-30 members. It is through these groups that SPAU extends support to the single parents and their families.
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SPAU campaigns to achieve equality of opportunities for single parents -both men and women. SPAU supports single parents in Uganda regardless of tribe, race, nationality, gender, or religion. SPAU is concerned with promoting the welfare and development of people in poor single parent families in Uganda.
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SPAU is a small local non-governmental organisation that has so far survived on a limited budget to achieve most of its goals. The primary objective of the projects that we undertake is to ensure that the poorest and often most disadvantaged single parents and their children live better lives. Please contact us to learn about how you can support our work in Uganda.
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
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We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from thei
Our advocacy activities involve supporting and enabling single parents to: Express their views and concerns Access information and services Defend and promote their rights and responsibilities Explore options and choices Our advocacy revolves around the belief in equal opportunities for everyone, including single parents.
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Our advocacy activities seek to influence social change by enabling often marginalised single parents to have a direct say in the issues that affect their lives. Through our advocacy, SPAU provides support and information to single parents with the aim of empowering them and enabling them to express their needs and choices.
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Our advocacy activities seek to influence social change by enabling often marginalised single parents to have a direct say in the issues that affect their lives. Through our advocacy, SPAU provides support and information to single parents with the aim of empowering them and enabling them to express their needs and choices. Our advocacy activities include: Rights awareness advocacy and Education advocacy. Our advocacy activities seek to influence social change by enabling often marginalised single parents to have a direct say in the issues that affect their lives. Through our advocacy, SPA
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Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
Our core values are those values that we hold which form the foundation on which we work and conduct ourselves. The core values are not descriptions of the work that we do or the strategies that we employ to accomplish our mission. On the contrary, these core values underlie our work, how interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfil our mission. They are the practices that we use every day in everything that we do. Our core values are:
Single Parents Association of Uganda (SPAU) is a Ugandan charitable organisation that aims to empower poor single parents and their families to increase their household incomes and provides a forum for marginalised single parents to advance their rights.
SPAU's vision is to overcome poverty and stigma among single parents and help create a society that recognises, respects and accepts single parents as equal members of society who can contribute to its socio-economic development
SPAU’s vision is to overcome poverty and stigma among single parents and help create a society that recognises, respects and accepts single parents as equal members of society who can contribute to its socio-economic development
SPAU’s mission is to improve the welfare of poor and marginalised single parents and their families through empowering single parents to meet their own needs.
SPAU’s mission is to improve the welfare of poor and marginalised single parents and their families through empowering single parents to meet their own needs.
SPAU’s mission is to improve the welfare of poor and marginalised single parents and their families through empowering single parents to meet their own needs.
Collectively address common concerns
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Increase their household incomes
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Raise their children successfully
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SPAU seeks to demonstrate to the public that single parents are equally able members of their communities, who when given a chance and the empowerment, can contribute positively to the socio-economic development of their communities.
Linking remote communities to direct AIDS service providers, such as mobile clinics, blood testing and counselling
HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns among the wider community
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Rights-awareness and lobbying activities to enable single parents to advance their rights
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Training services -manageable and sustainable income-generating activities
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Through encouraging the formation of single parents groups, through which members can offer group counselling and also build resilience, from interacting with fellow single parents, so as to face the challenges that come with single parenting.
Through mobilising single parents into functional and productive group/individual units, SPAU seeks to empower single parents with skills, knowledge and working capital to engage in practical and sustainable service delivery projects, through which they can gain empowerment to address their socio-economic needs.
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HIV/AIDS is the major threat to development, economic growth and poverty alleviation in much of sub-Saharan Africa. SPAU seeks to break the HIV/AIDS-poverty vicious cycle by fighting HIV/AIDS, even as we implement development projects targeted at improving the socio-economic livelihoods of single parents. SPAU is also an active participant in the national and global battle against HIV/AIDS by engaging in various activities aimed at directly containing and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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In many societies in Uganda, single parents are marginalised because of their status. This marginalisation extends beyond simple stigma. It involves single parents being denied their constitutional rights; such as the right to ownership of matrimonial property in cases of spouse death or separation, the right to custody of their children, the right to be heard and participate in their local community policy making. As a result, single parents -especially women- are sidelined during such important processes of decision making and their chances of being heard and issues that affect them negative
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Laying down new strategies: Strategic Planning II
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Advantage Africa is a British charity organisation that supports the ideas and work of inspirational people in Africa to overcome poverty and disadvantage. In partnership with Advantage Africa, SPAU is supporting the collective aspirations of 500 single parents from across five groups in central Uganda to become financially self-reliant and gain the skills and knowledge to combat HIV/AIDS in their communities.
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Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Between 2005 and 2008, SPAU worked with CONCERN to improve the socio-economic livelihoods of urban-dwelling single parents across 18 zones in Rubaga division, Kampala.
Cooperaid is a Swiss non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, humanitarian, organisation that works together with national and international aid agencies to support local initiatives at the grass-roots. Cooperaid also seeks to enable AIDS orphans, refugee children, as well as girls and boys from poor and socially disadvantaged families to attend school. Our partnership with Co-operaid is currently benefitting up to 1,000 individuals and 150 households affected by HIV/AIDS in Wakiso district, to learn and implement Memory Work strategies within a family setting.
Cooperaid is a Swiss non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, humanitarian, organisation that works together with national and international aid agencies to support local initiatives at the grass-roots. Cooperaid also seeks to enable AIDS orphans, refugee children, as well as girls and boys from poor and socially disadvantaged families to attend school. Our partnership with Co-operaid is currently benefitting up to 1,000 individuals and 150 households affected by HIV/AIDS in Wakiso district, to learn and implement Memory Work strategies within a family setting.
Uganda Reflex is a U.K. charity that was set up in 2004 to provide assistance to SPAU activities in Uganda. Uganda Reflex and SPAU provide human scale responses to the alleviation of poverty through intensive micro-projects targeted at reaching communities with single parents. Most of our projects are suitable for carrying out around the homestead where children can be looked after quite easily at the same time. Uganda Reflex also promotes and assists Ugandan trade to Britain. Together, we aim to help as many people as possible and so we endeavour to make our projects self-sustaining within th
HIV/AIDS is the principle underlying factor for a number of diseases including TB, meningitis, and several other opportunistic infections. Consequently, HIV/AIDS has increased the demand for health care and drugs, exerting immense pressure on scarce resources, which has in turn, reduced accessibility of health care for everyone, but hurt the poor the most.
At least 50% of SPAU’s members are people living with HIV/AIDS. At least 90% of SPAU members come from families that are affected by HIV/AIDS. Single parents -especially women- are also considered at a high risk of catching HIV/AIDS in the communities in which they live. SPAU designs programs for women, men, and young people of all ages; to explore their social needs, to analyse the communication barriers that they face, and to practise different and better ways of addressing their relationships and changing their behaviour, both individually and collectively to mitigate the effects of
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SPAU HIV/AIDS mitigation activities currently being run are: Community and Home based care training HIV/AIDS awareness exercises such as community workshops and video-shows HIV/AIDS counselling Linking remote communities to direct HIV/AIDS service providers who provide: mobile-blood testing, counselling and referrals Memory Work SPAU seeks to mainstream HIV/AIDS in its development projects to support single parent families. Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS is the process of analysing how HIV/AIDS impacts on various sectors both currently and in the future, to determine how
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HIV/AIDS affects all strata of the population in Uganda and poses a serious threat to the socio-economic life and development of individuals and groups of people alike. Although much has been done to create awareness of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, promoting testing and facilitating care for people living with HIV, a lot still needs to be done to reduce HIV infection further and to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the epidemic at individual, household and community level.
Memory Work consists of several key elements: Communication skills Child development and parenting Disclosing HIV status Planning for the future and legal support Loss and bereavement The memory book is an important part of this work, and is a simple tool that can support children, strengthening their sense of identity, and helping them to understand their family background. The memory book is only part of the approach, and is stronger when it is not used in isolation from the other elements of memory work. In partnership with Co-operaid, SPAU is currently impl
SPAU took on Memory Work to meet this need. In Uganda, Memory Work was first adapted by the National Community of Women living with HIV and AIDS (NACOWLA) to help its members and their families cope with the realities of HIV in their lives. Memory work developed as a creative response to the impact of the HIV epidemic on children, particularly children who faced being orphaned. Memory work is an example of a child-centred approach – that is, an approach that involves children in decision making processes in a way that is appropriate for their age and stage of development.
Children suffer profoundly as their parents fall sick or die. Their experience is often characterized by:
Paul LwangaPaul saw much of the overseas aid going towards awareness projects and medicines for people suffering from AIDS, but very little going to their family dependents who had to keep their own lives going in spite of economic hardship. Paul shared this idea with his two colleagues, Anne Lubega (RIP) and Alex Ssenyama, who were also single parents at the time facing the growing pressures and needs of raising children on their own. The trio eventually set up SPAU in December 1999, registering it with the government of Uganda as a non governmental organisation under charity number S.5914/29
SPAU maintains a large network of volunteers who are all community-based and usually also single parents and/or members of local SPAU groups. SPAU volunteers also include single parent group leaders and other executive-office bearers of their group committees. A typical SPAU group committee consists of at least 5 people who include: the chairperson, vice chairperson, treasurer, general secretary and information secretary/mobiliser. The SPAU group committees are responsible for the day-to-day operations of their respective groups. SPAU members in each group agree on the roles and responsibiliti
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Sharing and learning from mutual experiences
Enabling the mainstreaming of single parents’ issues/needs in the respective service providers’ programs
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Today, I came across a single mother of 6 as a result of the man she met while doing a house job here in Kampla left her with 6 years ago..They structure they live in, is licking and almost collapsing. Children go to but just the small money required can't be got.They depend on maize porridge one in a while.She has teenage girls and boys. How can this mother be helped? I'm also a single of 6 who is making ways in life insurance sales agency . It has help me BUT I'm unable to give help to this single mother. It will be too heavy for me !!
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