TARGET GROUPS

OVC and HVCs: This is a ‘ Threefold Approach’; Health, Education and Economic Empowerment to reducing HIV/AIDS deprivation, suffering and prevalence. This program is focusing on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation and prevention in the four sub counties of Ruhinda, Bugangari, Bunyanja and Nyakishenyi. Under HIV/AIDS affected children and their families. The program suppTTorts medical care, nutrition; Kitchen gardening and soya booster with sugar, Educational materials, and home care items; soap, Vaseline, blankets, mattresses, mosquito nets for the enrolled child and care giver households, and beneficiary groups are mobilized into cluster groups for saving mobilization and enterprise development.

Women and Grand Mothers: we initiate Economic development programs that help women and grandmothers to create a sound economic future for themselves and their families. Our work focuses on increasing productivity, employment and household incomes.

Youth and Young People: Youth Mobilization and Sensitization activities through sport, spiritual youth camps and conference, formation of youth groups, encouraging and building the saving culture among the youth under the HICDEF program called VSLA [Village Savings and Loan Associations] and encouraging and supporting the to start some income generating activities [IGAs] as a way of having increased standards of living, and addressing un employment problem among the youth most especially the un educated youth.

Rural Small Holder Farmers: HICDEF conducts sensitization and Small Holder Farmers’ trainings on key issues Concerning Farming as a Business, Pre and Post-Harvest Handling Techniques and Other Farm Field management for them to have Increased Agricultural Productivity, Agricultural Value Addition, Family Food Security and practicing agriculture for job creation for both Youth, Entrepreneurs, Women, and other stakeholders to HICDEF and its projects within the communities.