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0 PROJECT TITLE: Elgon Youth Development Centre

2.0 PROJECT LOCATION:

Half a kilometer from Mbale Town Palisa road, Indian quarters, plot 18 Mbale District, Eastern Uganda.

3.0 LEGAL OWNER:

Elgon Youth Brass Band Association, P. O. Box 674, Mbale, Uganda

4.0 STATUS OWNER:

Elgon Youth Brass Band Association was founded towards the beginning of 2009 by a team of dedicated
members with commitment to fulfill the needs of the marginalized youths. It is a Community based
Organization with its head offices located in the Republic of Uganda.
It was registered in February 2010 as a Community Based Organization under 1897 as its registration
number. It was established to focus on holistic needs of young people and their families in Eastern Uganda.

5.0 IMPLEMENTER
EYBB- Uganda
P. O. Box 674 ,Mbale , Uganda
Tel: +256 - (0)774 - 697395
Email: Elgonyouthband@gmail.com

6.0 BACKGROUND:
6.1 Background of the country where the project is implemented.
Uganda has an area of 241,000 square kilometers. It is landlocked and different countries surround it, Sudan
in the North, Kenya in the East, Tanzania in the South, and Rwanda in South West and Democratic Republic of
Congo in the West. It has large water masses has fertile soils.
For a long time Uganda has been described as "the Pearl of Africa” The country was once a British
Protectorate but gained her political independence on 9th October 1962, since then it has gone through many
political challenges and has coup detats and counter coup detats had in addition, it has gone through armed
conflict due to civil strife which has had devastating social economic effects on the population. The result has
been many orphans, widows and widowers.

The new government of National Resistance Movement (NRM) came to power by the barrel of the gun and
ushered in what many people describe as "parent peace" in different regions of Uganda . However, there is
still some presence of armed conflicts in yet other regions of the country.
On the other hand, the country has the problem of AIDS, which has claimed a large section of the population
like wars leaving behind hundreds of thousands of orphans, widows and widowers.
The country is also experiencing poverty, which means a great number of people especially in the rural areas,
cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

6.2 Background of the organization

Elgon Youth Brass Band Association was founded in 2009 and its head office is located in the Republic of
Uganda. It was established to focus on holistic needs of people in Eastern Uganda.

Background to the project and problem statement.

As indicated by the statement on the challenges Uganda has gone through, one of the categories of the
population, which has been affected greatly, are the children. There are many vulnerable children who are
at risk, which include orphans, street and displaced children.
It is with this background that Elgon Youth Development Centre will be launched to bring healing and offer
childcare and protection of the children who are especially in difficult circumstances. The project takes
advantage of the cultural practices of childcare, which is community based with a focus on the extended
family.

7.0 TARGET BENEFICIARIES:

Elgon Youth Development Centre is to provide support to an estimated 100 children initially.
However, the number of children will be increased as need arises and resources allow.

8.0 MISSION STATEMENT.

Reviving the hopes of disadvantaged children by creating opportunities for them to be skilled, self-sufficient
and productive.

9.0 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT:

The objectives for which the Centre has been established are as stated below: -
9.1 To meet the physical needs of the children and foster families by providing food, clothing and other basic
needs of life.
9.2 To promote the spiritual well being of the children.
9.3 To establish and operate a sponsorship scheme to give education opportunities to 100 vulnerable
children.
9.4 To empower 100 children and 50 foster families with resources that will enable them engage in income
generating activities for self-reliant living.
9.5 To offer career guidance and counseling services to children and foster parents.
9.6 To promote community based health care among the children and foster parents.
9.7 To conduct child evangelism, make available bibles and Christian literature.
9.8 To enhance water and environmental sanitation facilities within the communities where the children
and foster parents live.
9.9 To establish and run Vocational Skills Training programmes to impart market - oriented skills to
children.

10.0 PROJECT STRATEGY: In order for the objectives of the Centre to be implemented the Board of
Directors for Elgon Youth Development Center has designed the following strategy: -
10.1 Resource Mobilization
The planned activities of the Centre can be achieved when various resources are obtained. The Board
focuses on the following:
* Human resource: The Centre needs to be run by qualified staff that possesses skills and talents, which are
useful for the Centre. The staff needed include Managers, social workers, health workers, church leaders,
officers, cleaners, cooks and watchmen.
In building construction of the Centre, there is need for masons, architects, painters and decorators. The
Board have made a plan to recruit the personnel at different stages when need arises and resources are
obtained.
* Money: The Board needs to rise the necessary funding in different ways in order for this project to take
off.
* Materials: The Project requires a variety of materials including building materials such as cement, sand,
stones, timber, water, metal pieces, and iron sheets. There is need for training materials and craft raw
materials.
* Equipment: The Centre requires equipment ranging from that used in building construction works,
office, and kitchen for cooking and compound cleaning, Vocational skills training tools and for workshop use.
2. Land: The construction and eventual establishment of the Centre requires a sizeable piece of land. That is
on addition to the already acquire piece of land, that is purposely for future expansion.
3. The Board has designed a schedule of activities to include management meetings, staff recruitment,
contracting engineers, constructions, recruitment of children who will benefit from the Centre programmes,
designing training manuals for vocational skills training scheme, finally monitoring and evaluation of the
Centre programmes.

11.0 JUSTIFICATION:
The Board is justified to establish and operate Elgon Youth Development Centre because of the following: -
11.1 there is a pressing need of HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
11.2 There is favorable peaceful environment
11.3 the government policy encourages intervention mechanisms of voluntary organizations.
11.4 There is open support by local and international communities.

12.0 FEASIBILITY:
The Centre activities are feasible because:
12.1 there are hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children within the community of Namatala a slum in
Mbale.
12.2 There are people with qualifications and skills required by the Centre.
12.3 The Board has identified sources of funding and hopes to continue with fundraising activities
throughout the life of the project.
12.4 The building materials are available within the area
12.5 the required equipment can be obtained within the country at favorable costs.
12.6 The infrastructure favors the project since there is electricity, piped water and accessible road.

13.0 SUSTAINABILITY:
The Board hopes to sustain the activities of the Centre through: -
1.Continued staff development through training and retraining.
2. Continued resource mobilization using different strategies including membership and subscriptions,
grants, donations, charges on services offered by the Centre from the music departments extra.
14. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The Board of Directors for Elgon Youth Brass Band Association has put in place a management structure for
Elgon Youth Development Centre as indicated below: -

15. ACTIVITIES

Communities mobilization to identify OVC A1. Identify their needs

Training of OVC A2: Train them in needs assessment
Counseling of OVC A3: Undertake needs assessment
Conduct home visitation A4: Make reports of specific beneficiaries and their need
Training peer educators A6: Capacity building workshops
A6: Monitoring
Children retreat
A7: Evaluation

16.0 MONITORING AND EVALUATION:

The Board hopes to carry out monitoring and evaluation of the activities of the Centre as follows: -
16.1 Internal Monitoring and Evaluation.
* The staff working in different positions will monitor and evaluate the Centre activities on day - to - day
basis and will submit activity reports to the Programme Coordinator.
* The Programme Coordinator will receive monthly reports from staff under him.
* He will compile and submit monthly reports to the Executive Director of the organization.
* The Executive Director will submit quarterly activity and financial reports to the Board of Directors.
* The Board of Directors will cause the writing of annual activities reports and audited accounts.
16.2 External Monitoring and Evaluation.
The Board plans to hire independent persons with expertise in management skills to carry out an evaluation
exercise. This will give outsiders opinion in the programmes of the Centre. The evaluation report may give
recommendations for improvement of the programmes of the Centre.
The external partners/donors will carry out monitoring and evaluation annual at a time convenient for
them. This will be in addition to quarterly and other regular reports.

17. PROJECT BUDGET

The Board of EYBB has worked in consultation with technical and management consultants to produce the
budget estimates in two phases.

ONE-YEAR MAJOR BUDGET JAN-DEC

AMOUNT
PARTICULARS £GBP
USHS
RENT FOR THE OFFICE AT 120, 000 PER MONTH x 12 1,440,000 343.63
SPONSORSHIP FOR 50 CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 18 TEXT BOOKS, PENS
15,000,000 3579.51
ETC @ 100,000 PER TERM x 3 ITEMS
2 SCHOOL UNIFORMS EACHS, SHOES, SHOOLBAGS 50,000 x 50 2,500,000 596.59
SUPPORT TO 30 FOSTER PARENTS PER YEAR @ 200,000 6,000,000 1431.80
5,000,000 1193.17
BEDDINGS FOR MEMBERS STAYING AT THE CENTER AND FEEDING
3,000,000 715.90
CHILD HEALTH CARE 5,000,000 1193.17
OFFICE FURNITURES 2,000,000 477.27
COMPUTERS AND ASSESSORIES 2 PIECES FOR OFFICE USE 4,000,000 954.54
STATIONARIES AND OTHER OFFICE EQUIPMENTS 3,000,000 715.90
WATER AND ELECTRICITY 4,000,000 954.54
STAFF ALLOWANCE FOR 3 MUSIC INTRUCTORS@200,000 AND 400,000 FOR THE
12,000,000 2863.61
DIRECTOR ANNUALY
RETREATS, BOTH EASTER AND CHRISTMAS PARTIES FOR THE CHILDERN 3,000,000 715.90

SUB TOTAL 57340000 13683.27

GENERATING INCOME SO AS TO MAKE IT A SELF-SUPPORTIVE PROJECT

VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME

AMOUNT
PARTICULARS £GBP
USHS
LAND WHERE THE PROPOSED CENTER WILL BE BUILD ON. 5,000,000 1193.17

(30 SITTER 4 X 4) FOR OUTREACH ; THE 30 SITTER 4×4 FOR OUTREACH, THIS
IS A MIN BUS/ COASTER THAT WILL BE USED WHENEVER THE CHILDREN
ARE GOING FOR CONCERTS AND TAKING THEM BACK HOME AFTER
22,000,000 5249.95
REHEARSALS AT THE PROJECT. WE HAVE ALWAYS FOUND DIFFICULTIES
IN TRANSPORTING THE CHILDREN AND THEIR INSTRUMENTS TO PLACES
WHERE THEY ARE TO PERFORM.
CONSTRUCTION 20,000,000 4772.68
ASSORTED BUILDING TOOLS 6,000,000 1431.80
2 MOTOR CYCLES TO SUPPORT BACK TO MY ROOTS PROGRAM OF REUNITING
6,000,000 1431.80
FORMER STREET CHILDERN WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
15 SEWING MACHINES @ 200,000 TO WIDEN THE INCOME GENERATING
3,000,000 715.90
ACTIVITY

7 PIECES OF COMPUTERS AND ASSESSORIES @ 2,000,000 THESE WILL BE USED

IN TEACHING THE CHILDREN I.T/ICT TO PREPAIR THEM FOR THE
MODERN WORLD WHERE EVERYONE IS ATLIST REQUIRED TO HAVE SOME
MODERN COMPUTER SKILLS HENCE THERE IS LIMITED OPPORTUNITY TO 14,000,000 3340.88
GET A JOB WITHOUT THESE SKILLS.

HAIR DRESSING MACHINES 5 @ 100,000 AND OTHER SALON ITEMS TO WIDEN

1,000,000 238.63
THE ACTIVITY

SUB TOTAL 77,000,000

18374.82
GRAND TOTAL - Ushs: 134,340,000
AMOUNTS REQUESTED FROM DONORS, WELL WISHERS
£ 32058.09

17.4 STATEMENT OF APPEAL:

Elgon Youth Development Centre is established to meet the needs of, HIV/AIDS ORPHANS and the hurting
children at risk. The Board members will be delighted to enlist local and external partners in assisting this
important section of the population.
Money can be sent as a cheque in the names of Elgon Youth Brass Band Association.

18.0 COMMENCEMENT: 2012 and when funds are available.

20.0 SUBMITTED BY:

Kyewalyanga Fredrick
Executive Director

P. O. Box 674,
Mbale , Uganda

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