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ChildReach Africa

Concerned Parents Associa

Millennium School

Location:

Orisai Village, Kumi District – North Eastern Uganda.

Mission:

CREED (Center for Research, Education Enhancement, and Development in Africa) is dedicated to transforming a war-affected community through grassroots ownership of development efforts in education, health, and agriculture.

Who they serve:

Creed Africa serves a generation of Ugandans who grew up in camps for Internally Displaced People due to the civil war that spanned the last two decades. The camps are now disbanded and the parents in Orisai are trying to provide a better future for their children, but have missed out on learning life skills and farming skills necessary for survival.

What they do:

Child sponsorship to support educational opportunities and secondary schooling for the most motivated students
Work with District Education Office for greater teacher attendance and accountability.
Provide basic health care services and timely referrals to community health clinic or government hospital.
Conduct research and advise the community on increasing crop yields and improving agricultural practices in the difficult farming environment.
Research on social issues that have direct correlations with household poverty and malaria prevalence to enhance grassroots policy advocacy.

Year Founded:

2004, by Clement Aleku- Otai

Website: To be reconstructed

Needs:

Staff salaries as programs are currently run by part-time staff and over-extended volunteers
Professional advice or consulting in education, health, and agriculture.

Their story:

Clement Otai founded Creed Africa in 2004 and alongside him, a board of seven members from the community. Clement grew up in Orisai and left to complete degrees in Social work and Social Administration which he did in 1985. He returned to Orisai on a grant from the Church of Uganda to do rice farming back home in Orisai. Unfortunately, the rebels reached his village before the first harvest and the people of Orisai had to flee their homes. Clement returned to Kampala and pursued advanced studies in accounting which led to his move to Kenya 1989 to work for a prestigious international accounting and audit firm.

Clement has lived and worked in Kenya ever since. The founding of Creed Africa was a fulfillment of his desire to do social work in his home area that was cut short in 1986. He is now able to lend capacity to Creed Africa on a part-time basis and travels to Orisai very often.

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