Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD)

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD) is a not for profit organization, which started its work way back in 2006 as a Community Based Organization (CBO) operational in Kayunga Sub County, registered under the Gender and Culture Department of Kayunga District in Uganda (E.A) and was approved as an Non Government Organization (NGO) by the NGO Board, on the 11th of May 2011.
Our NGO Permit number is INDP8563460NB and the file number MIA/NB/2011/03/4840

BUVAD is an indigenous founded organization, which with a humble beginning started its work way back in 2000, as an initiative of concerned local youths of the area. On realizing the challenges that their community always faced, these born-children undertook numerous sensitizations by the central government and were prompted to set up an association whose background would be able to collectively address the community challenges for a common good and better life.

BUVAD’s focal region of Kayunga District is located in the remote central region of Uganda has a population that has grown tremendously from 295,000 people (2002 Population census) to 359,153 people (2014 population census), of which 93 % dwell in rural areas. Kayunga District has a cultural diversity of more than 52 tribes, some of which are from the neighboring countries like Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and India.
The land mass in the district measures approximately 1,587.8 square kilometres (613.1 sq mi).

BUVAD has been operating in a rural area of Kayunga Sub county in Kayunga District since 2000 and are starting to roll out to more Sub counties of Kayunga District, following request and legal support by the District Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee of Kayunga District.
By far, BUVAD has achieved successful activities like:
Orphaned Vulnerable Children care and support for over 6000 vulnerable children in 10 schools. Of these at least 10% are disabled. Construction of 13 borehole safe water sources of these 6 have been constructed at remote rural community primary schools with vulnerable children, waste plastic bottles accumulation management through bottle brick construction of 10 bottle-brick rain water harvesting tanks of 10,000ltrs at remote community rural primary schools with vulnerable/disabled children and 3 bottle brick toilets with consideration of accessibility for the disabled children, communal sensitization workshops on; child care and protection with advocacy for disabled children inclusion, water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management, climate change issues resilience, poverty eradication, , girl child educational support, youth and women empowerment.
BUVAD has carried out these activities based on volunteer support of staff and funding from various local and international sources based in and outside of Uganda.

VISION:
BUVAD has a vision of realizing an improved standard of living for the people of Kayunga Sub County, Kayunga District and Uganda as a whole.

MISSION:
Our mission is to promote human values for the people of Kayunga such that they may realize their full potential towards development for a sustainable living.

ORGANIZATION PROGRAMS:

BUVAD’s schedules of programs include;

1. Orphaned Vulnerable Children (OVC) care and Support. BUVAD is a member organization to District Orphaned Vulnerable Children Committee (DOVCC) with specific focus on
Educational Support and Care for the Orphaned Vulnerable Children and youths through;
- Construction of adoptable, cheap innovative rainwater harvesting tanks and latrines using waste plastic bottles as bricks in homes and schools with a target to improve water and sanitation levels. Specificity is given to accessibility of latrine facility, handwashing facility and body washing facility for the vulnerable/disabled children.

By the year 2022, BUVAD is targeting to construct rainwater harvesting tanks and latrines in 30 schools and 2400 households with vulnerable/disabled children.

- Sensitization of rural remote communities in Kayunga about disabled/vulnerable children care and protection.
- Providing educational support to girl children.
- Setting up accessible borehole water wells at community schools with a view of improving education, water and sanitation for the disabled/vulnerable children in the distant remote rural communities of Kayunga. By the year 2022 BUVAD is targeting 32 borehole water wells in 32 rural community primary schools of Kayunga on addition to the 7 borehole water wells that have been set up in community.
2. Water and Sanitation setting up borehole wells and training beneficiary communities in basic Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). By the year 2022 BUVAD is targeting to set up 25 borehole water wells in 25 remote rural communities of Kayunga.
3. Improving the health services in the focal areas through; sensitizing communities in primary health care, sensitizing communities about Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and diseases like; HIV/AIDS while emphasizing prevention and Care for the affected, providing family planning services, training community health workers in partnership with Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU)
4. Women and Adolescent girls’ empowerment project through; soft loans, sensitization about their rights, family planning services extension, and advocacy for their rights,
5. Environment and Nature Conservation (Re-Using Waste Plastic Bottles as Bricks to Construct Toilets, Rain Water Harvesting Tanks, houses and other useful structures)
6. Networking and partnership with related agencies

ORGANIZATION’S BASIC WORKING PRINCIPLES:
1. Transparency and proper maintenance of financial records.
2. Sticking on the set vision and mission of its programs.
3. Respect for humanity and advocating for it in all forums.
4. Net working with partner agencies that share similar vision for the benefit of society.
5. Respect for donor partnership principles

TARGET GROUP / BENEFICIARIES:

a) Orphaned Vulnerable Children and Youths
b) Women groups
c) Child mothers
d) Child headed families
e) The aged and disadvantaged
f) Disadvantaged homesteads

PROSPECTS:
BUVAD intends to extend its services all over the whole country of Uganda.