Our Dances are all about inspiring kids from impoverished communities. Walkfree Children's Foundation currently has over thirty kids from less privileged backgrounds and families. We feel excited about any challenge that comes our way because such barriers have helped us morph into a resilient team of hard-working, sweet and polite people. We attribute the endless motivation we gain from the kids through their smiles, dances, educational progress, solace from their troubled pasts and general transformation into lovely beings.
What we do: Providing a solid hope for the orphaned, vulnerable, deprived and destitute children seeking a second chance at life. This is achieved through the provision of education, healthcare, mentorship, clothing and other relative basic needs.
Walkfree Children’s Foundation is registered under the Non-Governmental Organization Act 2016 of Uganda at a Community District Office, Masaka (Regd. No. CD 19/ 1405).
1.2 Vision
A society where all children are free, safe, healthy, receive a quality education and have the opportunity to realize their potential.
1.3 Objective
The main objective of Walkfree Children's Foundation is to collaborate with and support Excluded and the Most Vulnerable children towards the creation of a better future.
1.4 Specific Objective
1. Keep Children in schools
2. Keep children safe from harm
3. Ensure Children get food
4. Ensure Children grow up in a loving family
1.5 Motto
Build Strong Children! They are our Future
1.6 Approach & Strategy
Walkfree Children’s Foundation always appreciates and respects positive endeavours from individuals, communities and national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. The organization always takes consideration into the following approaches during the programmes implementation process:
Participatory approach: we engage our children's beneficiaries to participate in our programmes right from needs assessment to clarity, implementation, and feedback.
Pbeneficiarieseople-centred approach: community people are central to all our development efforts and interventions.
Coordination and collaboration approach: activities will be effectively coordinated with governmental and non-governmental organizations from the grassroots to the district, national and international levels.
Accountability and transparency: all the program activities and corresponding budgets allocated for that particular place are transparent; anyone at any time can have access to this information if requested.
Needs-driven approach: programme activities will not be imposed from the top, but are selected based on the demand made by the beneficiaries.
1.7 Core Values
The organization consistently embraces the following components while implementing the programmes:
Collaborative: Create and nurture relationships and partnerships and is committed to diversity
Accountable: Talking responsibility for our work, relationships and our results
Courageous: Strength to stand up for what we believe in and to foster an environment where improvement is a norm
Innovative: Openness to new ideas and willingness to test them.
Transparent: Being open in all we do with the public and our stakeholders
2.1 The Executive Board
Chairperson
Ms. Nanyonjo Josephine
Business Woman
Vice Chairperson
Mr. Balinda Steven
Business Man
General Secretary
Mr. Kizito Henry
Accountant
Member
Mrs. Nabajja RCounsellor
Counsellor
Member
Mrs. Nantale Berna
Dr. Kats Children’s Hospital
Member
Mr. Ssaja Frank
Social Worker
2.2 System & Policies
Walkfree Children's Foundation has the following systems and policies:
Finance Policy
Child Protection Policy
Emergency Rescue Policy
Volunteering Policy
Conflict Management policy
2.3. Bank Details
Bank: DFCU Bank, Masaka Uganda
A/C in the name of Walkfree Children's Foundation (WCF)
A/C NO; 1018202161704
2.4. Organizational Structure
Administrative staff 01
Field staff 01
Technical Staff 01
Volunteers 02
Walkfree believes that opportunity, equity and access are the aspect of poor health, low educational levels and poverty, and pursue an integrated approach to create opportunities among deprived and isolated communities of Masaka.
Current Programs
Our activities follow our all-child-aid model. Excluded and the most vulnerable children, mostly from deprived communities of Masaka, are first enrolled on our waiting list awaiting our intervention. We then match them with related projects and empower them to grow into productive citizens in their communities. Reflection sessions are organized where their talents and skills are promoted. Our showcase and mentoring stages help our children in their self-discovery and expression, inspiring them to earn people’s love and support.
(a) Education Support: This project is a chance to escape poverty improve health and to ance opportunities. It takes a village to ensure that a child can grow up safely, securely, and with access to education and hope for opportunities in the future. It takes their family, teachers, leaders and other community members. How we do it, we match children with their sponsors, we also use children’s talent to earn school fees, requirements, uniforms and lunch boxes.
Step 1 Choose A child
Step 2 Your gift is multiplied
Step 3 Stay in touch
(b) Child Rights Advocacy: This project was created to keep children safe from any harm. Violence against children is a global concern that is often predictable and preventable.
1. Strengthening the first line of protection.
2. Partnering with communities
3. Educating & Empowering children
(c) Pads Distribution – Walkfree works to improve girls & women’s menstrual health and hygiene in four areas;
1. Social support
2. Knowledge & Skills
3. Facilities & services
4. Absorbent materials and supportive supplies.
(d) Relief Food: We explore ways to expand access to food for children, schools and families in Masaka. Activities are
1. Food 4 kids @ school,
2. Food 4 street children, and
3. Food for disaster response.
(f) Walkfree Kids: We use talents to keep children in school, and to leverage, and demand pen the impact of our child support program. Through dance we
1. Ensure they realize their dancing dreams and
2. Promote their well-being through talent
3. Ensure they get food
4. Ensure they grow up in loving families
Physical Address
Walkfree Children's Foundation
PO Box: 636, Masaka Uganda
B. Contact Person
Uganda
Henry Kizito
Tel: +256 753 235 225
Email: info.walkfreeug@gmail.com
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