BACKGROUND
Kinawataka Women's Initiative (KIWI) is a Non-Government Organization established in 1998 to help raise the standard of living of the people in the community.
Kiwi
is located at:
Mbuya I Parish,
Kaggo Zone,
Nakawa Division,
Kampala District.
It has 75 registered members.
We seek to mobilize and sensitize the less privileged women in our community about their rights in various sectors so as to fight poverty, disease and illiteracy. We encourage them to get involved in projects that use locally available materials.
We aim to eliminate poverty and raise the standard
of living amongst women and our community
as a whole.
OBJECTIVES
1. To inform and encourage women in Uganda to know their rights, to live in God's faith and to be mature in child care.
2. To inform women on environment protection, management, and modern farming methods.
3. To sensitize women on: HIV / AIDS and
prevention of mother to child transmission,
TB, Malaria preventions and
control.
4. To organize workshops and seminars on project management, poverty eradication, and laws which can guide them in the community.
5. To investigate abuses and violation of women's rights by relating to The Human Rights Commission and Uganda Joint Christian Council in every quarter of the year.
6. To gather and settle women and children who come from internally displaced camps from Northern and Eastern Uganda to our community.
