Home stay immersion experience June 2019

By Si Ning Chan MPH Candidate, Department of Global Communicable Disease & Epidemiology University of South Florida Upon arrival to Papoli on May 24th, we were immediately swept off into a 3-day and 2-night home stay experience to immerse ourselves within the Papoli community and obtain a deeper understanding of the culture and lifestyle of the community that we will be spending the next 10…

PROMOTING SAFE MOTHERHOOD

Health education of pregnant women is a routine activity during antenatal care visits at Papoli Community health center. It is done to achieve better health for the mothers by influencing behavior change. The Reproductive Health Voucher Program in partnership with Marie Stopes Uganda has encouraged many women to come for Antenatal care visits at the health facility, this has provided a key entry point for a…

Livelihood Support

We work with community members with the focus of improving the quality of life through a wide variety of community based livelihood enhancement initiatives including: Agriculture and environment Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 15 are on agriculture and environmental sustainability. We at PACODEF are working with the community to develop a sustainable response that addresses the element of food security and peacefully co-existence in harmony…

PACODEF guest house, Papoli.

Papoli Community Development Foundation (PACODEF) is a community based organization to better serve the needs of the community. Over the years the foundation has had a number of both local and international guests who visit the foundation and in most cases they would love to stay longer and interact with the community which interaction was limited due to lack of proper befitting and affordable accommodation. The foundation…

– Mr. Osabalo David and Hitla Alfred, Provision of Clutches

Provision of Clutches Has Its Time and Target!! I am grateful to say that our community volunteers are doing their work effectively and precisely to meet the demands of the vulnerable community members in their respective villages. We always share with them the technical approach to always organize planned home visits and communities where the status and the consensus of people can easily be accessed.…

Berekia back to normal from 2010 to 2014.

It is evident to justify that PACODEF is doing it all to save lives; The nutrition centre  initiated way back in 201 0 to crack down the malnutrition pandemic which was very high in Papoli and beyond, has proved real and justifiable. To show course it is preferably evident to follow the history of Berekia who survived the arm of death from malnutrition. This was…

Construction of Papoli Primary School dormitories

The construction of Papoli Primary School dormitories dining hall kick started amidst cheers and joy. Looking and flashing back at the history of Papoli village and that of the school, the existing development in terms of academic and infrastructural, history has been made to be told to generations and generations to come. Papoli Primary School before the inception of PACODEF projects, like any other rural…