Most At Risk Populations' Society in Uganda (MARPS in Uganda)

We are a member organisation under Advocacy Network Africa-AdNetA. We participated in the recent MIT -COVID-19 CHALLENGE- Africa Takes On COVID-19. We were a team of many other organisations in this challenge. Ours was called: COVID-19 Loser Africa Campaign. We are so thankful to all who made it successful. Togetherness means power in social justice health promotion. We are various CBOs whose models are as follows: 1. Family Based Therapy Model 2. Rescue, rehabilitation and nurturing 3. Rescue, rehabilitation, skills development, translations of skills into self-determination  and community -based civic-duty engagement The excitement behind the scenes is palpable when we are prepping, practicing and going over the nitty-gritty details of preparing a marathon, rather a hackathon as a team. We deliberately mine our brains, books of reference and various models to come up with a tailor made operational model. Health promotion is our task. There are 10 difficulties tha...

There are those moments that make one go on,  despite the challenges. There are those anecdotal conversations one picks up as a result of their work, which invigorate them.  Which make them committed  and lit up with a zealous fire.  The conversations that keep one driven.  This month alone,  we have 80+ Persons Living With TB who are all tested TB Sputum Negative!  This is the last month for them  and they are about to become TB Survivors.  We hope to form a larger TB Survivors' network.  The reason I am sharing this is not only to talk about our  jubilation but to also share with you what kept us going.  We have had to beg, lobby and beg some more for the money to take us through May 2020. We are grateful to different CSOs which share with us some of their food, detergents and morale boosting. The words that keep us  going are the communal thank yous as well as your support: "Thank you for prov...