Primary Focus

Our primary focus has been and is;

"We believe the heart grieves for what the eye can see! The heart is always torn in pieces watching widows and orphans grieving before you when you have no reasonable assistance to help her enjoy life on earth and also gain hope in the life to come in heaven, Matthew 25: 30- 40."

	To lobby for scholarship towards basic education for orphans and disadvantaged children.
	Offer counseling services (social and health) to people living with HIV/AIDS
	To establish a health centre where all our clients could gain access to health services.
	HIV/AIDS awareness services to the community
	Sponsor widow’s micro- businesses.
	To train HIV/AIDS infected widows in Income generating projects.
	Offer welfare support to people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans.
	Train members of ‘CAN’ and church leader in counseling skills, craft and other different skills that they use in their support groups.
	Defend CAN members in legal issues of property inheritances.
	Providing Christian counseling services and nutrition supplements to people living with HIV/AIDS, linking up care and treatment of opportunistic Infections.
	Mobilizing funds through registration and membership contributions, charity organizations and donors to support CAN activities.
	Evangelize through sowing the seeds of love to people living with HIV/AIDS and their families
	Networking with the already existing organizations and foundations addressing similar problems.
	Working alongside Churches to sensitize them towards this noble cause of reaching out to HIV/AIDS infected and affected groups.

The greatest areas of need include:

	Education
	Medical health care
	Shelter
	Food, water
	Clothing
	HIV/AIDS sensitization
	Information services (Current Awareness Services & Information Dissemination)
	Counseling and Evangelism

CAN-Uganda started over 25 support groups to address the education needs, welfare needs of the orphans and widows/widowers in Uganda. CAN have a total of about 500 widows. Counseling is conducted on regular basis and we also teach the people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans to make handcrafts and many other skills that could help them to earn some money for their families. And it is our commitment to look for market for their handcraft. We have given out piglets to groups of widows as a start up towards project of self-support. We identify widows and orphans mostly in need of services through local or community leaders, church leaders, affected family groups and home visiting.

A group of CAN Widows under instruction on how to tie up the pieces of materials before dumping them in paint to come up with the Nice African clothes that are on Market today. A sample is one that most of the ladies in the photograph are putting on right now.

Mission Statement