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Medical Camps:
Every six months, Guiding Light Orphans holds two free medical camps that provide prevention education health talks and awareness, counseling, testing, treatment, and other informational programs. These medical camps serve approximately 3,000- 4,000 patients in two days with a team of about 100 volunteers who include medical personnel who travel from other clinics and health facilities to come and care for the many sick children and their caretakers in attendance. GLO brings basic health care services closer to the community due to the remoteness of their location and carry out prevention and treatment of people of Nyantonzi and Kasenene parishes in order to reduce morbidity and mortality
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GLO's Epilepsy Intervention Program:
Incorrect perceptions about epilepsy are the reasons why people suffering with epilepsy are stigmatized. For this reason GLO decided to train Peer epilepsy ambassadors and also hold an outreach clinic every month, specifically for those that have epilepsy and their families as well. They receive education on management, counseling, and treatment for their epilepsy and any other health issues as well.
Guiding Light Orphans staff provides educational programs through informational gatherings, reading materials, and posters on epilepsy. The hope is to decrease the social stigma and to promote a change of attitude towards people who suffer from the condition.
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GLO's Health Clinic:
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Government of Uganda, GLO will deliver comprehensive, primary healthcare, to a target population of about 1,200 patients per month at the Nyantonzi site. The health clinic will emphasize delivery of essential, basic healthcare at the Community Health Center (Level 2) and make referrals to Levels 3 and 4 for more complicated cases that will need further management. Using a comprehensive, community-based approach through our local community health workers, we will focus on improving the interface between the community and the health systems, providing ambulatory primary care, fostering maternal, newborn, and child health, reproductive health, family planning, sanitation and hygiene initiatives, and controlling malaria, TB, HIV, and other childhood illnesses across all life cycles in a coordinated manner at all levels of care. |
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Community Health Worker Program:
Community health workers or Village Health Teams (VHTs) are some of the most effective ways to provide education and primary health delivery to poor communities not just in Africa, but around the globe.
GLO recruits and trains VHT’s in disease-specific interventions such as maternal and child health, family planning, HIV/AIDS programs, reproductive health, Nutritional education, immunizations, sanitation and hygiene, and childhood illnesses.
The role of VHT’s is to provide basic medical care to people WHERE THERE ARE NO DOCTORS or limited access to primary healthcare in a health facility.
Importantly, Village Health Teams (VHTs) create the trust and pride of ownership that ultimately enables a long term sustainable solution for local populations to improve their own health and well-being. |
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Special Projects:
Many of the children are taken in by elderly grandparents, aunts, uncles, and at times, the eldest child becomes the head of the household. GLO staff works with families on the ground to determine their needs using comprehensive household and individual assessments.
GLO’s programs will engage and empower orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers to build a foundation of action and hope for a healthy and sustainable future by offering access to training and development of their skills and education, child protection, food security, psycho-social support, medical care and economic empowerment. |
