Rural Health Care Outreach

Here at YOFAFO, we aim at reaching rural communities with programs and strategies that will help them in Family planning and Child spacing, Malaria prevention, Dental services, plus HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness. We also distribute Mosquito nets and provide home-based health care to our communities. We give support to children born with physical disabilities.

When combined with clean water and sanitation, improvements in healthcare reduce the number of children dying from preventable diseases like malaria. YOFAFO facilitates access to medical and dental assistance and provides information sessions on many health related topics like, HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases(STDs), the human body, reproduction, hygiene, nutrition, etc. YOFAFO, with the little funding availabel, aims at constructing boreholes where the communities can get safe water. We also encourage the people to always boil all drinking water in order to avoid diseases like diarhoe and typhoid.

In Uganda, Malaria kills most of the people and the most affected are the babies and their mothers. At YOFAFO, we strive to reduce the number of deaths due to malaria by distributing mosquito nets and teaching the mothers on how to use them. They say Prevention is better than cure so we believe that it is more cheaper to give out nets than it is to treat malaria.

We also organize workshops for adoloscents and youth on how to prevent HIV/AIDS. We impart them with knowledge and information on the deadly virus by using Uganda's ABC strategy.

YOFAFO also encourages the communities to participate in the different government of Uganda initiatives like immunization and vaccinations. It presents to them the benefits and advantages of having thier children immunized and vaccined against the six killer childhood diseases like Polio, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, among others.