About Us
2006
Welcome to SIKYOMU DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
Background
SIKYOMU DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS started as a Community Based Organization that was established in 2006 by a group of five people who tested for HIV and found out that they were positive.
The Organization was started as a result of the HIV effects and infections in the community and since the majority members were infected and affected by HIV/AIDs a local organization was formed to ensure that the affected households are supported to live positively with the burden of HIV/AIDS.
In addition the organization also wanted to bring together people to access HIV prevention services including HIV counseling and testing, Access ART services and the marginalized most especially the HIV/AIDs infected and affected get a platform and have their voices heard in the economic, political and social transformation/Development of the society in which they live.
In May 2009, the Organization was officially registered as a Community Based Organization under charity number: MKN/CBO/244/2009
Our Vision
To reduce further spread of HIV/AIDS in the society with emphasis on equal rights for both HIV positive and negative persons
Our Mission
To advocate, promote, protect and sustain rights of the most disadvantaged/vulnerable people most especially HIV/AIDS positive people, orphans and vulnerable Children (OVCs) and the elderly.
Our Goal
To enable households reduce the incidence of HIV transmission; take the adverse effects of AIDS through mitigating its socio-economic impact on the community.
Our Core Values
- Transparence
- Non-political
- Stewardship
- Non-religious
- Non- sectarianism
- Respect for human Rights/Dignity
From the above pie chart it should be noted that the MARPs that were reached since the start of the project for one year are 2% of fisher folks, 4% of the CSWs, 17% of PLHIVs and another 17% of the boda boda riders, 22% couples including pregnant women, 38% for the youth out of school and many other target populations in our projects.
Note: The above computations were made basing on the total target populations of all those targeted in the projects of SIKYOMU for 1 year
Staff
Sikyomu Development organization for PHAs has a dedicated staff headed by the programs Coordinator which carries out the day today works of the organization, these full employed staff are 8 in number and these include the Program Coordinator, Accountant, Assistant Accountant, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, 2 field officers and the Askar (to safe guard the office premises and property). It should be noted that the staff is a mixture of HIV/AIDs Positive and negative members. Below these staff members are 8 Village Health Teams (VHTs), 10 Paralegal Officers, 8 Network Support Agents (NSAs) and 36 Community Resource Persons (CORPs), All these were trained by Sikyomu with support from its partners and all are working as Volunteers for Sikyomu in its programs.
MARPs reached in all programs of Sikyomu
Note: MARPs = (Most At Risk Populations)
From the graph it can be noted that there was an increase in the number of people reached in HCT as we had an increase from 251 to 491 females tested and the male increased from 225 male to 313 male this reporting quarter and the cumulative increased to 2,572 people reached (This is a cumulative total for all the 4 quarters (1year) of the project life.
This was computed basing on a one year target plan of Sikyomu, note that these numbers are still low according to the Mukono district general population and the target group hence we are striving hard to receive more funding so as more population can be reached
A line graph showing female and male involvement in HCT program
Our Partners
Our Achievements
Offices
Sikyomu Development Organization has its own offices built with funds from the international HIV/AIDS Alliance in collaboration with USAID and it has its own land were the offices are located. These offices include a state of the Art main hall, kitchen, board/staff room/office and financial managers’ office.
Members
Sikyomu has 876 registered members out of these 567 are women and the remainder are male, all these members are beneficiaries of the programs in one way or the other, These members receive ART services that include HIV care, Treatment and support at the Organization premises under a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with The AIDs Support Organization (TASO)
