Action for Disadvantaged People provides scholarships, mentoring, and academic support for children who have demonstrated academic excellence and potential, even as they suffered from the effects of their congenital heart defect. We are committed to giving these children opportunities to build a better future for themselves that goes beyond the operating room.
Our commitment to our ACDIPE scholars supports the recipients through university and finding employment. They all have a very bright future ahead of them! Our students have varied goals. Some want to be doctors who can help children like the doctors who saved their lives. These children are a true joy to mentor, and because of their illness and years of uncertainty about their future, they have a spirit of determination not often seen in young people.
These programs are focused on children aged 0-6, a period of tremendous growth in all areas of a child’s development. ACDIPE’s Early Child Care and Development interventions aim at bringing all efforts to enable parents or caregivers promote brain development, health and well-being as their children prepare for school.
Our Basic Education programs help school-age orphans and vulnerable children develop vital skills to ensure their success both in and out of school. Through her OVC Education Support Projects ACDIPE is ensuring children acquire foundational literacy, formal education and socio-emotional skills, which will prepare them for a lifetime of learning.
We all know that despite the provision of the basic essentials for to acquire basic and formal education for these OVC’s, without a good health and safe environment all efforts will have been a waste. This program therefore aims at helping school age OVC’s; be healthy to learn and learn to be healthy. Here, we use comprehensive approaches to overcome the effects of chronic malnutrition, illnesses, like malaria and diahorrea, as well as working to improve oral and vision health, access to water and sanitation including menstrual hygiene and road safety.
ACDIPE’s dedicated researchers have continuously built the capacity of the organization to better understand what works are best towards supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s learning and development efforts. This has helped increase innovativeness and productivity as well as realization of a great impact amongst the beneficiaries.
ACDIPE’s education in and after emergencies program ensures that OVC’s operated from Congenital Heart Defects and those experiencing disasters return to learning as quickly as possible after proper healing from Open Heart Surgeries and onset of a particular disaster respectively. OVC’s experiencing such severe health difficulties and other hard situations benefit from our Learning and Well-being in Emergencies approach which provides them with essential academic and socio-emotional skills to start to recover and resume some normalcy
ACDIPE is a registered Non-Profit Organization located in Kagoma along Bombo Road in Wakiso District.