- Promoting safe, child friendly schools. (Integrated and participatory strategies to reduce gender-based violence in schools) 2021-2022
This project was to help prevent and stop violence in schools and communities. The outcomes of the best practices and lessons learnt was to help inform any future HORD intervention designed to promote a child-friendly safe school concept and combat child sexual abuse and the use of corporal punishment. School children, parents, families, communities, child protection organizations, law enforcement organs and school policy makers were challenged to take action against violence in schools which in the long run is to promote the creation of a safe, child-friendly environment. This is to enable the provision of quality basic education and opportunities for life-long learning.
- Health promotion project 2016-2020
Support in the providing of critical basic needs such as food, wheel chairs, clothing, bedding, modern agricultural skills and medication to the vulnerable people, Distribution of agricultural improved seeds to community households to improve food security. HIV/AIDS awareness and sensitivity training programs, including innovative sports activities made up of the local youth and volunteer counselors and AIDS educators who educate through sports and other skits which help to reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence and promoting behavioral change among the youth who are the most risky and vulnerable groups to HIV/AIDS.
- Stop child sacrifice now 2009-2015
The goal of the Project was to increase the prevention of child abuse in Kamuli district where the practice of child sacrifice and female genital mutilation was most prevalent. Initially, the Project was intended to reach 9,300 adult males and 9,700 females as well as 1,078 boys and 1, 423 girls in Kamuli district.
Since 2009, HORD has been implementing a STOP CHILD SACRIFICE NOW Project aimed at reversing the high demand for children’s body parts in the communities by changing their behavior against the use of body parts in rituals and treatments of illness. The Project employed three approaches — the community Alert System, the Social Norms Change Approach and the Geographical Information System.
Child sacrifice and mutilation has been one of the most cruel and harmful practices in Kamuli District, placing children’s lives at the greatest risk imaginable. The Stop child sacrifice Now campaign was made up of the Government of Uganda and civil society groups in Uganda — calls this “[the] harmful practice of removing a child’s body parts, blood or tissue while the child is still alive.”