Welcome! to F.S.C.U foundation

FORMER STREET CHILDREN UGANDA:

sseludingo@yahoo.com
+256782295147
ronnieseruyyange@hotmail.com
roniese@gmail.com

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FORMER STREET CHILDREN UGANDA ORGANIZATION PROFILE
INTRODUCTION:
FSCU is a charity non-profitable organization that operates as Community based organization (CBO) and Non Government Organization (NGO)
It was established way back in the year of 2005 with the purpose to restore back Hope and improving the condition or situation of Street Children and Orphans vulnerable children category in Uganda.
The founders of FSCU, where once “street children” who lived with many Non Governmental Organizations in Kampala District. FSCU started operating in Kampala Central Division on City streets like Nakasero market street, Namirembe road and in areas like Kisenyi, Katwe and Kivulu wandgaye slums and suburbs.FSCU has an orphanage of street Children (Orphans Vulnerable Children’s) including former street children who are now reformed just amend their talents to live self-determining life in the community.
FSCU is location in Bulenga Zone B,(Mengo) Rubaga Division. But used to be in lungunja Busega zone 8,
Uganda is a landlocked country located in East Africa boarded by Republic Of Kenya in East, Republic Of Tanzania and Republic Of Rwanda in South, Republic of Congo in west and Republic Of Sudan in North
The children under rehabilitation programs are taught in various skills which enables them to acquire acknowledge for example, Basic literacy Formal education and practical vocational skills training as a tool for them to become responsible and productive citizens of our country and on the entire Africa continent.

MOTTO: change the world for a better tomorrow



VISION:
1 To see Uganda in future free of street children by change the world for a better tomorrow
MISSION:
1 To develop effective economic, social and political community participatory confidence amongst street children and other vulnerable children, to enable them participate in molding a better world for other children in the same situation.

2 To implement positive strategies to address social and economic activities to reduce poverty measures and increase awareness of HIV/AIDS epidemic in the families and to ensure self reliance through engaging them in income generating activities


OBJECTIVES:
1 To train and reduce the number of children living on the streets and within the slums communities
2 To create education opportunities to address the influencing factors that lead children on streets and
3 To create awareness on children legislation and policies in homes and communities.
4 To restore self confidence in children by training them recreation activities like acrobatics, tradition music, dance, drama and art and craft.
5 To ensure networking system with the development partner using multi-sectoral approaches to develop effective and practical children policies.

6 To establish reliable data bank and strengthen research documentation and dissemination for information, and staff development strategies

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Street children is a term used to refer to children who live on the streets. They are deprived of family care and protection. Most children are the streets are between the ages of about 5 years and 18 years old. They are three categorized named, street children, street youth and street adults, and them popular between different cities is varied. Street children are those that are not taken care of by parents in other protective guardians. Street children live in abandoned building, street verandas, sleep in sacks, feed in cardboards boxes parks or on the street child, but the primary difficulty is that there are no precise categories, but rather a continuum, ranging from children who spend some time in the streets and sleep in a house with ill prepared adults, to those who live entirely in the street and have no adult supervision or love care. Street child exist in many major cities especially in developing countries and may be the subject of drug abuse, neglect, exploitation, or even in extreme cases murder by clean up squads by local business street child is increasingly recognized by sociologists and anthropologists to be a socially constructed category that in reality dose not form a clearly defined homogenous population or phenomenon (Glause 1990, Ennew 2000, Moura 2002) street children lovers children in such a wide variety of circumstances and characteristics that policy makers and services providers find it difficult to describe and target them upon peeling away the street children label individual girls and boys of all ages are found living and working in public spaces, visible in the great majority of the world’s urban centers.
The definition of street child is contested but many practitioners and policy makers sue UNICEF’s concept of boy and girls aged 18 from whom the street (including unoccupied dwelling and wastel and had who are inadequately protected or supervised black 1993

Depending on the definition used, estimates of the number of street children range from 10 to 100 millions the majority being located in major urban areas of developing countries by regions estimates have included about 40 million in Latin America 25 30 million in Asia and over 10 millions in African boys predominate 971 – 97%0 but girls often have more difficulties for the purposes of the street children project the 1980 estimate by UNICEF of 100million has been accepted, representing those with current difficulties and those at risk who report July 1993 (WHO/PSA/937)

The study case, employing participatory rapid appraisal methodology, covered all the major towns of Uganda. A total of 3728 children of whom 924 where females was counted. The children come to the streets for a variety of reasons.Th e most Important of which were broken families and poverty. Both the recent wars in northern Uganda and the AIDS epidemic contributed and continue to the growing number of broken families in rural urban areas J.C. Munene and Janet Nambi 1996).
FSCU started with over 400 children living in the slums and suburb areas of Kisenyi, Katwe and Kivulu engaging them in various activities both recreation and tradable skills for example traditional music and dance, drama, poem gymnastics, Brazilian caporier and visual art and craft in 2008.Ten children were identified and transferred to the orphanage for rehabilitation. In 2007 6 children where placed in primary school to acquire formal education skill, since that time the children foundation has been constantly receiving street children and OVCs through its implemented activities like street/slum outreach and information education and communication and slum family visit. This has made the numbers beneficiaries of the foundation to reach 800 people both in the slum communities and on the streets, part timer and full timer

FSCU currently has 120 children in the program 20ehere placed in the orphanage, ready for school, both secondary and primary and 5 are placed in vocational skill training, 18 where resettled with their respectively families in different community, where by family is the best place for a child.

After analyzing the core course and problems regarding street children. The children’s foundation thematic focus is street children, street youth, street adults and disadvantaged children. FSCU will stand in position to expand its programs with needy children, youth and Adults (woman ) in Kampala hence other towns along Uganda’s villages as well as other parts of African (World)
The on going programs are tailored to increase the self sustainability of children and youth in virus communities. FSCU will always emphasize capacity building in life supporting activities for children to be resettled back in their communities, homes as self reliant and empowered with knowledge and skills to help them earn a better living in future.

FSCU SUSTAINABILITY:
There is cordial working relationship and support from the local government, civics teacher’s religious leaders, and annual. Subscription of members in their respective categories, contribution from well well-Wishers, development partners and friends The proceeds from some of the children foundations activities like sales of art and craft and traditional music, dance,Gymnastic and drama shows, how helped to support the programs and activities of the children foundation. The children foundation is networking with its mother institution organizations local and international. Non government organization and individuals. This has helped a great deal because us an organization we managed to get a family in the work for one of the child. He made a visit and came back in the orphanage with enough experience around the world… The children foundation has managed to for child mothers in their homes with skills in hair dressing, Art and craft. Knowledge these donates some of them productive to the children foundation. Former street children Uganda has been transferring some reformed children to sister’s organization for education and vocational skills upon agreements on the terms and conditions.
There is routine monitoring and valuation of the children foundation (former street children Uganda) programs and activities.

NETWORKING
Former street children Uganda, advocacy efforts target with the following:-
Government institutions, culture and opinion leaders and policy makers, local leaders religious leaders, school local and international NGO, FBO, CBO and research organizations, individuals, community members parents, not forgetting kampiringisa National Rehabilitation center and all other companies with similar goals objectives and interest.

FSCU ACTIVITIES:
2 Recreation Activities e.g. Music Dance Drama, Poem
3 Vocational Skill And Knowledge
4 Street and Slum Outreach
5 Visual Art And Craft Industry (Designing & Painting)
6 Monitoring And Evaluation
7 Spiritual Counseling And Guidance.(Bible study and scripture share)


FSCU PROGRAM’S:
8 Pre And Post Primary Education (Basic literacy)
9 Tracing And Resettlement (vulnerable children’s)
10 Shelter, Medical , Feeding
11 Networking And Situation Analysis Research
12 Staff development (Resource center)
13 Information Education and Communication. (IEC)

FSCU MEMBERSHIP:
Membership is opened to individuals and organization that subscribes to FSCU objectives upon payments of a fee. FSCU would like to continue networking with other development part partners to strengthen its implemented strategy future plans.

CONSTRAINT:
14 There is an increasing number of children on street
15 There are inadequate resources to reach out to vulnerable children
16 High cost of rent and inadequate space for orphanage
17 Inadequate funds for feeding, medical care, education and other basic requirements to more express rights and freedom of children.
18 Inadequate vocational tools equipment and materials to boost art and craft industry,
19 Inadequate marketing strategies for our ready product and services
20 Lack of a reliable data management.(Training and capacity building )

STRATEGIC FOCUS:
Further, to implement social and economic activities to reduce poverty in families and to ensure self reliance through engagement in income generating activities to overcome the hard measures of poverty in urban rural communities.

FUTURE PLAN:
To establish fscu infrastructure development as a home for the orphans from the streets and a multi disciplinary transitional centre.

PHILOSOPHY: with God nothing impossible
CONCLUSION:
The organization is looking forward to increase its service with children by raising more awareness about their future life and also strengthening the capacity of lobbying and networking to develop the activities that had been implemented to reach directly to the needy children or family where the children are resettled.
The organization advocate its system of operating with government and local communities in order to address the causes and the problems influencing children to join streets Life,
Therefore, we thank all those who contributed to former street children Uganda since its existence.
Further more we acknowledge all the sponsors’ and donors for supporting FSCU kindly, May the lord bless your Handwork

Former street children Uganda (profile)
P.O. Box Kampala – Uganda
Tel: +256782295147
Off: +256782295147
Email:fscu@yahoo.com executive director Mr. Sseruyange Ronald
sseludingo@yahoo.com fscu.wetpaint.com




My team
Street children and former street kids are my life and because we are being despised a lot in the society we want to change the negative mentality by showing an example that once given a chance we can be instruments of purpose. My team includes former street children and experienced people who have the spirit and heart of making the future of children better like my friends……………..


Why am I interested in former street children?
Being a former street Kid I feel I have a strong attachment with all former street children and children who are still on the street, and when they are despised, and abused due to their nasty past experience I get affected as well. Former Street children in Uganda are seen as despicable lot in the community; people believe they are wicked; they can’t do any thing instrumental for the community. Working together with these kids I believe it can change the negative attitude in the community and give confidence to all the kids in the process of transformation that irrespective of their past they can do productive and achieve greater things in life. we have our talents and gifts like dancing , playing instruments, and acting among others.