ROM at the Interest 2022 International Conference
Almost 600 attendees joined the conference and took part in the discussions around HIV care and prevention, COVID-19 and HIV medicines, key populations programming, and many other important and diverse topics. ROM’s ‘Men’s Uptake of HIV Testing’ abstract was one of the unique elements during the Interest 2022 International Conference held in Uganda recently. ROM […]
Psychosocial Efforts for Grandmothers
An annual Grandmothers’ Day is one of the much sought-after joy filled events for Grand Mothers in the ROM Project that restores hope, brings back many happy memories, offers company at the lone stage of life building tenacity among the extremely vulnerable elderly. A very big percentage heading their households and burdened with taking care […]
Skilling of Young Mothers & Adolescents
55 adolescents and young mothers under the care of the ROM supported grandmothers received certificates of completion in hair dressing and tailoring infused with life skilling and practical entrepreneurship from ROM. Cutting extreme vulnerabilities starts with one owning of their success. At ROM we offer second chance schooling that works as a springboard for multiple […]
ROM’s support for OVC yields at COWA: Patience and Bildard credit ROM for agribusiness skills
As a first-time visitor at Companionship of Works Association (COWA) Banda, you will be taken up by the astonishing beauty of the institution’s compound. Never will you miss to ask who is behind all this, so nice that it is hard to tell whether these amazing plants, are for food or decoration. Most of them […]
Improved Service Delivery Site Improvement Through Monitoring (SIMS) visit at ROM
The US Centre for Disease Control officials in June were at ROM on a Site Improvement through Monitoring (SIMS) support visit. The periodic visit is aimed at offering site support to the facility with the overall objective of offering improved services during implementation. Through this continued support, ROM scores high in providing quality services in […]
Drake University commend ROM for Community empowerment
On 19th of May 2022, Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative in collaboration with Makerere Business School was pleased to host students from Drake University, USA. The 13 students were on a study abroad program under the theme “Sustainable Development in Sub-Sahara Africa”. ROM has over the years always participated in this program and is […]
SHE-SOARS- ROM strives to improve lives of out of school girls
ROM has launched yet another intervention to support adolescents’ life skilling. The Sexual, Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment Supporting Out of School Adolescent girls’ Rights and Skills (SHE-SOARS) project aims at increasing equitable use of ASRHR services by diverse groups of adolescent girls particularly those out of school and children’s rights holders. ROM will be […]
ROM On Track In Building Resilience Among Vulnerable Children
ROM is implementing the Integrated Child and Youth Development Activity (ICYD) Project in Kampala District. The intervention strives to ensure Uganda’s children especially girls and the most vulnerable lead resilient and productive livelihoods. Justine Amera (not real name) is one of the mothers who had lost hope after her sixteen-year-old daughter conceived the during Covid-19 […]
Lactating Mothers learn care for infants at Postnatal Care training
Reach Out Mbuya organized a postnatal Care training on 21st May, targeting 80 lactating mothers and their partners from the three Reach Out Mbuya sites; Kinawataka, Banda and Mbuya. Clinicians took the mothers through a number of important pointers including Antenatal Care, its importance to pregnant mothers and when to enroll at health facility in […]