Marie Wright Children's Foundation
PROJECTS
Fence Project
Currently, a fence is beginning to be built around the entire Marie Wright Children's Foundation Orphanage compound. This is due to the Child Protective Services requiring it due to wild animals and attacks by wicked men on children in Uganda.
Please pray that this fence will finish being funded quickly (We still need $4900 to complete the fence.)
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Garden
The Marie Wright Children's Foundation Orphanage grows a garden to help with the food needed for all of the orphan children. The children all get involved with the planting and cultivation of this garden. This not only provides an opportunity to learn how to grow their own food, but also teaches them community and service.
This project ties into Project Number 4.
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Health and Nutrition
We believe that all children have a right to adequate nutrition as envisaged in the Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC). Yet, access to nutritious food remains a huge challenge to Orphans and Vulnerable Children and/or poor and vulnerable children given the high poverty levels that continue to strike the country. As such, children’s physical growth and or immune development are severally affected. Once the immune system is affected, children become prone to serious illnesses and diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and other health conditions. Helping provide healthy food and good medical care is essential.
Water and Sanitation
Marie Wright Children's Foundation’s WASH Program is focused on Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
WASH is central to the proper growth and development of Orphans and Vulnerable Children, and Marie Wright Children's Foundation therefore, focuses on Safe water, improved sanitation, menstrual hygiene management for girls and hygiene promotion.
The following are the activities that we invite you to partner with us:
1. Provide and sustain safe water supply systems for children in communities and schools. This encompasses supply, management and maintenance activities to ensure quality water and functionality of water systems. We believe that availability of safely available water services increases school enrollment, attendance, retention, healthy learning, and performance.
2. Implement community-based behavioral change and market-based sanitation approaches in rural communities and schools to end open defecation. Marie Wright Children's Foundation plans to construct sanitation facilities for schools and families with vulnerable children. This will help to ensure that our children live in clean environments for quality life, disease prevention, reduced infant mortality and increased productivity.
3. To supply re-usable pads to vulnerable girls in under Marie Wright Children's Foundation ministry. This is to be done alongside Menstrual Hygiene Management training of children break taboos associated with Menstrual Hygiene Management in rural schools. 4. Develop and implement hand-washing practices using appropriate technologies that meet needs of the children under Marie Wright Children's Foundation ministry while upholding inclusiveness and dignity.
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Education
The Marie Wright Children's Foundation Orphanage works hard to help provide a quality education for all of the children in their care. This is a goal that is vital at the Orphanage. This is one area that as a Marie Wright Children's Foundation Child Sponsor, you can directly help change the life of the child. It costs $150 per quarter for the tuition per child. If you are interested in sponsoring one of the children, contact us for more information. You can also see our sister Foundation for information at: Sponsor A Child | Friends Of Marie Wright Children's Foundation
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Marie Wright Children's Foundation WASH & COVID-19 Activities
Marie Wright Children's Foundation believes that provision of safely managed WASH services coupled with sensitization and awareness creation remains central to the control and prevention of COVID-19. As such, to break the routes of coronavirus transmission, Marie Wright Children's Foundation is to focus on:
1. Marie Wright Children's Foundation goal to develop appropriate and contactless technologies and designs, it is working to implement regular hand washing for all children under its ministry. All children have to appropriately and effectively wash hands at key critical times using soap and water.
2. Marie Wright Children's Foundation goal is to ensure availability of safe water for children to wash their hands.
