Education for Peace and Prevention of Violence and HIV/AIDS (EPPOVHA)

For the last ten years our work has been focused on educating people on peace, conflict resolution, and prevention of violence and HIV/AIDS. We carried out peace education through youth groups in and outside schools; supported peace clubs in schools and communities through life skills and livelihood
programming ; charity work in the community accompanied by sensitization of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through drama on early pregnancy and HIV; educational and scholastic support to vulnerable children due to HIV and other causes; and engaging policy makers on issues concerning stigma, discrimination and child rights due to HIV status. We have taken up microfinance in Bungatira Sub County in Gulu and Lamogi Sub County in Amuru district.

Vision
A peaceful Acholiland and Uganda as a whole where there is peace and non deadly HIV/AIDS disease

Mission
To educate the people how to live in peace, resolve conflict non-violently and eradicate AIDS.

Proposed Programme Areas

• Governance
• Policy Advocacy to empower citizens to demand for accountability in policy`Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Microfinance
• Climate Change
• Agriculture

We hope to influence development and governance policies for the promotion of social justice.
We seek to evolve into a Think Tank and play the following roles in relation to other policy actors;

NGOs Agriculture and Rural Livehoods, HIV/AIDS, Microfinance, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Social Research and Policy Advocacy