About FLEP
Where we workFamily Life
Education Program (FLEP) serves communities of the 7 districts of Busoga
region namely; Bugiri, Iganga, Jinja, Kamuli, Kaliro, Mayuge and Namutumba.
The distribution of the 52 FLEP health centres per district is; Bugiri (3),
Iganga (8), Jinja (7), Kamuli (13), Kaliro (6), Mayuge (4), and Namutumba
(11). Plans are underway to extend FLEP’s catchments of intervention to
other districts nationwide.
Our Mission
The mission of the
Family Life Education Programme (FLEP) is to serve local communities
throughout the Busoga Region by promoting and providing integrated high
quality clinical, community based and mobile reproductive health services
regardless of gender, creed or other circumstantial factors and
conducted under the auspices and within the context of Christian principles
and throughout sustained mutually supportive partnership and dialogue with
communities and organizations.
Our Vision
FLEP’s
vision is to be the preferred partner for community initiatives in health.
FLEP operates against the following principles:
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Inclusiveness:
To serve all people regardless of sex, age and creed.
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Community
participation: To work
with, not for, the people, animating their talents, resources and energies
in their own development.
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Community
management: To give
the people themselves the opportunity and responsibility to the direction
and management of the self-help initiatives.
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Integration:
To forge health sector initiatives into a holistic and mutually reinforcing
response to the situation of communities, households and individuals.
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Distinctness:
To remain rooted in the church’s ministry structure, but to offer its services as a distinct entity.
FLEP AIMS
and Objectives
In furtherance and
pursuit of the above described mission, the aims and objectives of FLEP are:-
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To promote reproductive health
services and education;
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To improve, encourage and
promote community outreaches, community participation and involvement in
health care services;
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To create a resource
development strategy and sustainable plan for the realization of
the aims and objectives of the organization;
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To enhance the quality of
health/ medical care in respect of particular services needed in the local
communities;
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To enhance the local populace
to be supportive of beneficial reproductive health and sexual practices;
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To strengthen the reporting /
collection of service delivery of literary materials/ data for efficiency;
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To focus and fight the
significant community concerns like rampant STI, HIV and AIDS transmission
and reproductive health problems especially the children, youth and women;
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To develop and strengthen
linkages between other Ugandan and Non Governmental institutions, which have
technical input and can make contribution to programme implementation;
and
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To perform any other lawful
things and other matters and acts incidental to the above aims and
objectives.
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Staff
Rev. Chris Kyewe
Chris heads up the FLEP organisation. |
