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1. Introduction
Malanti self-help group is an independent, Non-religious, Non-political, Non-
denominational, Non-Governmental and Non-profit making community based organization in
Uganda established for among other things. It was founded in 2014 by four Ugandan
professionals in Biira community; led by, Mr.katumba David a professional poultry farm
based in Biira-Wabale, Mr.Ssabakooloto James a retired public health officer and tutor,
Mr. Sajabbi Fredrick an Engineer by profession and Mrs.Nakayiza Betty a retired social
agronomic Worker. This organization has initiated other members in the community.
This organization was led by Mr.katumba Arinkiza David following his profit less support to
the community, who offered 15 acres of land at free lezzy for 40yrs, to Malanti self-help
group, being a community based organization its has initiated up 20 membership who have
contributed to supportive programs like making brick for sell and building of the
organization office structures and support the organization works, Malanti self -group
started with a Vision to An empowered old-aged population in community based
developments, health access and rights hence reduction to deepening poverty in the
community. MASE brings together doctors, famers, nurses, care givers and other
professionals with NGOs interested in promoting human rights, reduction in poverty among
the community. Due to the proven and tracked solidarity record of addressing community
problems, health and human rights violations and influencing policy change in the
community through advocacy-oriented research, awareness camps and Volunteer
recruitments of members to support the venerable people in the community. Mase is well
established community based organization ready to transform the basic and help sustain
and change the lives of people in the community.
It is a service delivery and advocacy organization working with the aged, men and women
including their specified support less grandchildren as far as they are concern.
2 .Vision
An empowered old-aged population in community based developments,
health access and rights.
3. Mission
To contribute to the reduction and prevention of old age suffering,
discrimination and poor medical access, through empowering elderly people

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and their less fortuned grandchildren within our community and nation wide.
Empower elderly people in our community through; social community
N.B this organization/association shall not only stand to support elderly
people, it shall allow/ listen to other human problems if they are
manageable.
4. ORGANIZATION PHILOSOPHY AND CORE VALUES
The Association philosophy is a chore in conceiving responsibility to the
increasing numbers of elderly discrimination, violence and abuse of their rights,
HIV and STIs, alcohol and substance misuse and increase the literacy rates
community for their entitled properties. In light of these, MASE will became an
outreach entity whose purpose of establishment is to increase awareness, and
economic stand, health behaviors and medical easier access, project practices
through life skills education, counseling, small scale poultry farm training help
startup, belief and awareness of the community about the necessity of elderly
people in community decisions.
The Association is committed to renaming a responsible corporate citizen that is
bound and guided by the following core values.
 God fearing, the members and staff shall be encouraged to have trust in God
for wisdom and guidance.
 Team work and commitment to the vision, the association attaches the
highest importance to team ethics to ensure reinforcing coordinated efforts
by all staff members and supported by responsive.
 Integrity transparency and accountability- All staff of this association and
members are duty-bound to be truthful and honest in their dealings with the
organizations to respect public office, and be answerable to their action.
 Hard work, diligent services and commitment to our objectives in order to
optimally realize our corporate goals and the economic needs of our
members.

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 Social responsibility, discussing issues to reach a common understanding
and encouraging the exchange of ideas.
 Value for money, individual staff and the association as a whole seek to
promote cost-effective-utilization of all scarce resources including time.
 Spirit of volunteerism, help for the needy people and extension of helping
hand everywhere necessary.
5. GOAL
 To spear head community development through small scaled community
poultry farming projects for the elderly people, entrepreneurial/vocational
skills training; making valuable crafts even for elderly people with Disability,
carrying out awareness/sensitization programs, thus educating the public on
how to reduce and prevent old aged discrimination and abuse of their rights;
through empowering the aged people and their grandchildren within and out
of the community by: providing micro loans and helping them to adopt a
culture of financial saving and reinvestment for projects sustainability,
providing free legal assistance and judicial support at community level; to
effectively tackle accusations of witchcraft, property inheritance scandals
and related violence against the elderly people.
6. Executive summary

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Malanti Self-Help Group (MASE) is an independent, Non-religious, Non-political,
Non-denominational, Non-Governmental and Non-profit making community based
organization established for among other things.
 To create an informed community; conscious of their rights and forms of
abuse.
 To reduce deepening poverty, numbers of homeless suffering old-aged
people and their orphaned grandchildren by providing different skills which
can be turned into income generating activities.
 To rehabilitate and transform the minds of traumatized
dependents/community victims, old aged who have lost their children and
caring relatives, PWDs and abuses like rape, abductions for as sacrifice gifts
and accusations for witch craft in the community.
 Provision of free legal assistance, and judiciary support at community level;
effectively to tackle accusations of witchcraft and related violence against
older people especially women.
 To sensitize/create awareness to the public about disable/vulnerable
persons amongst community groups, after a careful assessment and
observation of youth, adults and elderly. It has shown that the great majority
of the community members are so poor and poverty is related to the above
main areas of concern vice versa.
N.B. Malanti-self-help group (MASE) in its other hand also shall form a team of
member’s among its own group to take care of vulnerable elderly aged people in their
homes, patients in hospitals where necessary.
7. PROBLEM STATEMENT
 Poor corrupted pension schemes; most times the funds are stolen and not
delivered to very community and benefit nothing from economic growth and
development
 Chronic poverty and Food shortage. ;Low levels of income among the
vulnerable old aged hence leading to malnutrition ,
 Poor health medical access, many elderly people live in rural areas where
there is few or no medical access

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 Environmental changes i.e. floods and mad which gives them difficulties in
moving with on foot/wheelchairs, the major cause of the problem is lack of
mobilization, information and advocacy among the leaders.
 Low levels of Education; literacy levels remain low is old aged people and
most especially the women.
 Age discrimination and changing of roles and practices within the family and
among the community members and rarely report these abuses due to fear
of fear of ignorance of their rights.
 Deep rooted socio-cultural exclusion factors.ie belief in witchcrafts
,human sacrifice
 The experience of economic exclusion, and are often denied employment
and credit schemes
 Rape, Murder and false witchcraft accusation; old aged are often murdered
by their children and relatives; thus properties inheritance and marriage
disputes are often at the heart of these accusation.
 Absence of free legal; assistance, and judiciary.
 Lack of right identity documentation; to prove their eligibility for free or
subsidized service
8. BENEFICIARIES AND BENEFITS
NB. This non-organization is not only made or written for those with abuse it’s an
association for all.
Therefore the beneficiaries and benefits are:
 The beneficiaries are elderly, old vulnerable aged men & women , and less
fortuned grandchildren dependants, disabled HIV/AIDS victims living with
the abuse and the benefits of the organization include:
 Increase knowledge and skills in the field of development
 Increase income to the beneficiaries.
 Improved standards of living.
 Poverty reduction in communities.
 Freedom and hope to live better life.

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 Reduction in abuses.
9. THE ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES
 To create awareness in people about human rights, old-aged care giving with
hygiene and sanitation and recognition of the importance of key documents
such as birth certificates, land titles etc
 To create awareness to the people/community to always have time and
mercy for the above vulnerable victims that they need your help.
 To mobilize and organize the old aged in the community to form groups and provide
and startup a small scale life sustaining poultry project. And others like weaving,
crafts making this will empower them with start up income generation through this
community based old aged project, income generated will help starting a village
saving culture to help them sustain their grandchildren.
 To support NGOs/government to extend their activities to the old-aged in the
communities.
 To give support to vulnerable old aged families, with related family’s food
supplement and provide daily life materials to widows and scholastic
materials to their orphanage vulnerable children (OVCs).
 Provision and insurance of the four basic needs to the vulnerable old aged
people in the community.ie provision of materials like brackets, bedcovers
mattress, cups, plates etc
 Lobby and advocacy is also another concern required.ie in acquiring of
pensions and grants.
 To mobilize fund and start up a the first free elderly home in Uganda to care
for the vulnerable aged people with an orphanage home which in future shall
care for their less fortuned abandoned grand children.
OBJECTIVES IN SUMMARY
In order to realize the above vision and attain the stated mission, MASE is guided
by the following objectives:
 Helping individuals and groups to solve frequent obstacles hindering
development amongst the needy orphan’s, and HIV/AIDS.

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 Promoting older people in economic inclusions and access to insurance or
credit schemes
 An adequate standard of living to the older people as recognized in the
international human rights treaties ratified by African states.8 the charter on
human peolpe1s rights (1981) includes the right of older and disabled people
to special measures of protection in keeping their physical and moral needs
(article 180)
 Promoting skills, knowledge and proper planning for rural groups using
methods for active participation (MAP), participatory learning approaches
(PLA) and self-reliant participatory development (SRPD) among the PWDS
and others.
 Promoting the importance of identification documents i.e. birth certificates,
national ids to prove their age eligibility to benefits like pensions.
 Promoting/Encouraging the sustainability of self help groups for
development.
MASE intends to develop from a project organization focusing mainly on three
aspects:
 Training community elderly aged members, to a program organization with
several projects being implemented under an integrated development
program.
 Sponsoring those who have the love and heart to study, the organization
shall try its level best to raise fund for them.
 The CBO also has a plan in hand to build up a small factory industry
association for the following project that shall generate income for the
Association:
 Poultry farm basically commercial layers.
 A soap making
 Agro-processing and marketing project
 Animal power utilization
 Wheelchair workshop and walking crutches for the disabled.
 Bridgette making project(charcoal made from waste materials to
protect the environment)

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 More awareness session regards children /old aged
people protection, domestic violence, human rights etc.
MASE as a young organization is planning to introduce and put in use these
projects in a nearby short time, both formally and informally but has not yet built
its capacity to fully to implement all these projects under one amalgamated
program.
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On that, the project is also being planned to extend its branches to the Districts that
are in need of its planned project.
10. OPPORTUNITIES
 15 acres of land.
 Co-operation among the members and development partners
 The majority of the member have integrity and reliable
 Members own the Association
 Skilled board
 Team work
 Fast decision making by the board.

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Some of the members and their Grand children.
10.0 CHALLENGES
 Financial illiteracy of members
 Source of funding is still very meager
 Networking, lobbying advocacy as skills in the resource mobilization are
still very inadequate within the Association.
 International partners.
Yours sincerely,
…………………………………………
David Arinkiza Katumba
Chef Executive director

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Malanti Self-help group
P.o Box 1192
Kampala- Uganda.
Tel/Mob: +256 782-268269, 256-782-731-182
E-Mail: malantiselfhelpgroup@gmail.com, dvd_katumba@yahoo.com
TREASURER
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Otim Bisegerwa
Email: malantiselfhelpgroup@gmail.com , ibisegerwa@yahoo.com
Funds campaigner
Kaate mike
Email: kaatemike1@gmail.com,
Proposed land given to Malantselfhelpgroup land site

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Malanti selfhelpgroup proposed land site.
Board of trustees, From left. Nakayiza Betty (seniouconsellor), Mr.katumba David, Mr.Bogole Eric, Najingo
Florence, Mr.SSabakoloto James

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Mr Katumba David Executive Director in white coat, Bogole Eric,Namuli ,Marry , Kaate Mike and other members
in the Malantiselfhelpgroup.