Unverified non-profit organisation

Hope Orphans and Rural Development (HORD) is a non-political, non- economic Community-Based Organization (CBO) registered with the District Community Development Department of Kamuli District in Uganda. Since its inception, HORD has scaled up its support especially to the vulnerable women, child-headed households (CHH), orphans and others affected by HIV/AIDS.

A network of community counselors and the community members manage HORD affairs on a voluntary basis. Volunteers carry out HORD’s programs in our areas of operation.
HORD was formed to specifically create a platform for the vulnerable women, children and the youth for community development and to enhance their social and economic empowerment.

Worldwide, women and children are the most vulnerable as far as economic development is concerned. In most cases, issues arising from social, tradition, economic and political interests combine to exclude women and children from development and the prevailing fundamental general human rights.

Majority of the women and children today have grown up in societies where acts that violate human rights like (wife battering, murder, rape, Domestic Violence and other forms) are the order of the day. They therefore have little respect for observance of human rights and generally excluded from development processes.

It is very important to empower the women, child mothers and other vulnerable children so they understand, respect and promote Human Rights in their communities.
Hope Orphans and Rural Development operates in most rural communities of Uganda’s Kamuli District in Bugulumbya, and Wankole– where the greatest problems of the African continent seem to co-exist. Lack of clean water, extreme poverty, limited access to quality education, tropical diseases, and a visibly horrific HIV-AIDS infection rate that has widowed thousands and orphaned thousands more– these communities could not wait for others to help, and so began to help themselves.

Website

http://horduganda.weebly.com/

Year established

2008

Organisation annual cash turnover (in US$ equivalent)

Less than 500,000

Participant in relevant networks

GBV Prevention Network PO Box 6770, Kampala, Uganda Tel.: +256 414 531186 Fax: +256 414 531249 Email: info@preventgbvafrica.org