“GLOBAL HEATH AND FAITH INSPIRED COMMUNITIES”

CAPE TOWN, 21-24 JUNE 2015

PRESENTER: REV CANON PROFESSOR GIDEON B BYAMUGISHA

Ahimsa Round Table 2015

Topic

Education for an AIDS free future: The Ministry of Friends of Canon Gideon Foundation, Uganda

Who are we at FOCAGIFO?

We are a small faith- based, faith- inspired and friends propelled Non-Governmental Ministry in Uganda.

We develop innovative ideas on “Faith & HIV” and implement them with one objective in mind: To effectively contribute to global, regional and national

goals of quickly reaching and evidentially sustaining… Zero new HIV infection and transmissions Zero stigma and discrimination Zero AIDS related deaths

What are we focused on?

What are our ambitions?

Our ambition is to (a) Strengthen Our Hope Institute for Transformational

Leadership & Development (b) Build the Hope University Semuto (HUS) (c) Establish our Hope Social Enterprise (HOSE) unit

We aim at educating, training and graduating 3,600 youths annually as (i) Community and family health competent (ii) Spiritually empowered (iii) Gainfully and technologically skilled (iv ) Productively employed (v) Social justice sensitive (vi) Environmental health aware leaders.

Imagine the impact over the next 10, 20 and 30 year period!!!

We have so-far graduated 1,300 through the FOCAGIFO Hope Institute for Transformational Leadership & Development

Through founding INERELA+, 13,000 religious leaders living with and or personally affected by HIV and AIDS in 25 countries are active champions of hope

We are Persistent in FAITH and Resilient in HOPE

The Friends of Canon Gideon Foundation (FOCAGIFO) is the result of hardnosed faith and sacrificially engaged work by friends , supporters and well wishers

Our goal is to end the vicious cycle of “deprivation, vulnerability, infection risk and early death”

We remain unwavering in siding with the most vulnerable youths and young adults that are stigmatized culturally shamed sexually abused economically deprived socially mis-understood educationally discriminated against Pejoratively referred to as ‘drop outs’

Our Contribution to the Global Health Landscape

We have succeeded in growing a global movement of wounded healers through INERELA+ . Through the Global Working Group on Faith, SSDDIM & HIV; we are engaging leaders of

religion and ‘congregations of faith’ to ‘see’ the pitfalls of our health intervention models, messages, theologies and sermons that focus on changing individual risk behavior without taking into account the risky environments.

Through our global health advocacy and experience sharing sessions like this one ; we have consistently called upon policy makers and programmers in state, inter-state and non-state sectors to (a) take religion and religious beliefs seriously (b) stimulate respectful dialogue with religious leaders (c) fund their engagement in a non-patronizing manner (d) invest in holistic education, integrated training and interdisciplinary research ministries (like ours in

FOCAGIFO) to promote holistic health literacy, leaders, communities and congregations of faith.

The Key Lesson Learnt in the last 23 years is : We ignore the role of religious belief, religious leadership and religious practice in global health at our own peril!

Our Key Challenge

Our key challenge is in making The complete transition to becoming A Social

Business entity that Engineers A Sustainable Future Without AIDS- through Education.

Our Social Business to be a Mission that is vocational, intentional, relational and excellent in Skilling youths and Transforming their health futures and out comes.

What We Need

Yes, we are prophetic leaders and social visionaries in FOCAGIFO. But we are also realists that are conscious of our resource

limitations. The implementation of our vision will need the involvement of more

social investors in (i) holistic education (ii) integrated training (iii) youth empowerment (iv) interdisciplinary research as vehicles to reach our global health and national

HIV goals faster, smarter and better To achieve our targets in the next 120 months

(a) Strengthened Hope Institute for Transformational Leadership & Development (b) A Built and fully functional Hope University Semuto (HUS) (c) Established Hope Social Enterprise (HOSE) unit supporting HUS and HI-TLD

We will need a resource investment envelope of USD 35 million Hence our “One Dollar, One Person Living With HIV”

Resource Mobilization, Investment & Endowment Drive.

Our Key Ask & Key Thank You

We need your technical resource support in preparing a bankable business plan of international standard to be used as a negotiation document in accessing venture and private equity capital for our three-tiered social business in education and training for improved health

We thank all of you our friends and Dev Partners who have made us a success over this 23 year period

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