ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012

ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN THE FINANCIAL YEAR  July 2011- June 2012

1          School fee and Scholastic Materials

As you are  all aware that we have 25 orphans in (SUO) we were able to provide them with books and pens for the whole year i.e three terms a year.

We bought 50 dozens of  books per term at 270,000 Ugshs and  5 dozens of pens at 30,000 Ug shs. The total cost was 900,000 Ug shs.

This project was funded by the organization members through their contributions.

This project is an ongoing program.

2          Blood Donation

In March 2012, We mobilized community members to come and donate blood to Uganda Transfusion services. This project was carried out at our offices in Kyalusowe Masaka district. This project was co funded by Uganda Blood Transfusion Services. SUO provided lunch for both staffs of UBTS and SUO , We contributed  50,000 Ugshs  towards transport and bought 2 pair of cells for the public system at 2,400Ugshs. This project was a success because 147 people donated blood.

3          HIV Counseling and testing

In April, 2012, We held an HIV counseling and testing project.

We held this project in partnership with Uganda Cares which provided the testing kits, tents and transport. SUO provided the venue, mobilization of the community members and lunch. We tested 547 people and 4 discordant couples. 18 people tested positive and were advised to go for medication to Uganda Cares. This project costed  250,000 Ugshs

4          Hygiene and Sanitation

We always have  walk in village activity whereby we went to various households training people how to dig up  rubbish bins, how to set up the plate stands, and bush clearing around homes. We  bought 3 hoes, 2 slashers,1 panga and 2 pairs of gumboots. The total cost of this project is always been 200,000 and 250,000 Ugshs.

Financial Report

• Income inflow

We were able to  collect  2,150,000 Ug shs ( two million one hundred fifty thousand)

• Expenditure

Our expenditure  was 1,452,400 Ug shs ( One million four hundred fifty two thousand four hundred.)

• Sources of funds

Our source of funding has always been through the membership contribution and annual subscriptions, we collected 500,000Ug shs. With in this financial year, we got a small grant of 650,000 from the well wishers.

We were able to collect 1,000,000 Ug shs (One million shillings)  from our film which we sold out to the community members. We made this film has one of our income generating projects.

Challenges

We faced  some challenges which included:-

-        Lack of enough money to carry out most projects.

-        There is  lot of  illiteracy in the community.