ABOUT US | Bakenga Empathy

Vision

Provide sustainable future in a safe environment to the most disadvantaged children, women and youth.

Mission

Bakenga’s Empathy aims at providing effective overseas development aid to the most disadvantaged targeted groups in East Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

To support and partner with organizations that aim to improve the quality of life of orphaned children and young adults in communities impacted by war and AIDS.

Objectives

Provide financial support to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) caring for children orphaned or displaced by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Make equity-grant investments in sustainable development projects that will improve the quality of life of orphans. i.e. (building schools & orphanges)
Use the individual abilities and skills of volunteers to support projects and consequently help alleviate the suffering of orphans.

Bakenga’s Empathy is looking to support several NGOs in multiple countries in Africa, with a vision to expand in number and geographic locations as our financial resources grow. Our collective efforts in the next 5 years will contribute to improving the lives of more than 10,000 children in the communities our NGOs operate, Build 50 houses for disadvantaged single mums, send 15 tousand youths to a Vocational Training Program, build 1 orphanage and one Primary School so that orphans will have free education.

With your assistance, we aspire to help many more!

A key objective is to recruit volunteers around the world and give them the opportunity to provide hands on assistance to personally make a difference in the lives of children.

Help engage their knowledge and abilities by providing technical expertise in addition to financial support to the projects we’re funding.

We aim at organizing an international group of Bakenga’s Empathy Volunteer/employees at least once per annum, at their own expense, to volunteer a week of their time and energy to assist. The NGO will host volunteers for a week of hard work and fun. Future trips will include the following countries as destinations:

Uganda
Kenya
The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwanda
Burundi.
Tanzania
South Sudan

Uganda
Kenya
The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwanda
Burundi.
Tanzania
South Sudan

Funding

Bakenga’s Empathy uses three types of funding for projects:

One-time Grant Funding.
Enterprise Development / investment funding i.e. social and patient capital.
Skills Development and Education funding.

One-time Grant Funding:

The intent of this type of funding is to provide support for immediate assistance for short-term / emergency situations that vulnerable people encounter. This might be building a home or paying a hospital bill to save a life of a single mum or an orphan. The organization is required to demonstrate a genuine need and report how the funds will be used. This type of grant does not require a commitment from the Trust for further funding.

Enterprise Development & Investment Funding:

Social capital (loan) – with the expectation of income generation or in support of income generating ventures.
Patient capital (loan) – expansion of existing income generation ventures – this is the preferred funding mechanism for enterprise development.

Skills Development & Education Funding:

Funding for bursaries, schools and Early Childhood Development, technical training and life experiences opportunities.

Should you want to know how we chooses the NGO’s we support or what the decision making process is choosing / supporting new projects contact us.

Statistics:

The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Issues facing children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Rates of infant, under-five and maternal mortality are staggering. One in seven children dies before reaching the age of five. Mothers die in childbirth in 13 out of every 1,000 deliveries.
Nearly one quarter of children are underweight. Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies are responsible for nearly half of deaths among children under age five.
Vaccination rates for the most common childhood diseases are approximately 45 per cent.
Less than half the population has access to a safe source of clean drinking water. Less than one third has access to adequate sanitation facilities.
The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among 15 – 45 year olds is 1.3 per cent overall with some geographical disparities. The rate is 1.6% among women and 1.9% in urban areas.
There are over 4 million orphaned children in the country.
School enrolment rates are declining. More than 4.4 million children (nearly half the school-age population) are not in school. This number includes 2.5 million girls and 400,000 displaced children.
Child labour is commonplace: More than a quarter of children ages 5 to 14 are working.

For more details go to: https://www.unicef.org/wcaro/Countries_1749.html

For more details on specific countries go to: https://www.unicef.org/wcaro/Countries_1749.html