{"id":4065,"date":"2020-12-08T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2020-12-09T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:32:13","slug":"christmas-comes-early-for-the-grandmothers-of-reach-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Christmas comes early for the grandmothers of Reach Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0489xxxx-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0489xxxx-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0489xxxx-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0489xxxx-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0489xxxx.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><br> Anjelica A Evans (Right ) hands of a cheque &nbsp;to Hilda Achayo of Reach Out Mbuya&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SKAL International Kampala Chapter, a\nprofessional organization bringing together all sectors of the travel, tourism\nand hospitality industries promoting global tourism and friendship has donated 2,000,000\/=\nto the grandmothers of Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;To date, Reach Out Mbuya takes care of 1061 grannies among whom 15 are men. &nbsp;At Reach Out, they are supported with  health care, nutrition, food support and economic empowerment activities for income generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 grannies will benefit from SKAL international \u2018s donation &nbsp;of food and nutrition a need coming at the time of Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reach Out Mbuya elderly project funded by the Stephen Lewis Foundation focuses on improving the livelihoods of elderly women (50+years) affected and infected with HIV\/AIDS to live a dignified life and offer adequate support to the orphans and Vulnerable children(OVC) in their care through a holistic approach. 84% of the elderly women supported by the project live in the rural areas of Luwero District and 16% in the slum of Kampala such as Acholi quarters and Kasokoso where poverty is rife and economic opportunities are limited, coupled with limited family support.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project operates a system of a grandmother-to-grandmother (GM2GM) community support model with a robust surveillance system of grandmothers\u2019 village committees (GVCs) that continuously monitor and capture emerging issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKAL International Kampala Chapter, a professional organization bringing together all sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industries promoting global tourism and friendship has donated 2,000,000\/= to the grandmothers of Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative. &nbsp;To date, Reach Out Mbuya takes care of 1061 grannies among whom 15 are men. &nbsp;At Reach Out, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}