Annual General Meeting

Who We Are

Hope Community Action (HCA) Africa is a Non-Governmental Organization registered, incorporated and licensed in Uganda since July 2019. HCA Africa is a community-led mission with focus on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Our vision is to see the people we serve living in peace and family health, spurring hope in the lives of their children. Areas of intervention: Education, Health (Psychosocial support, Nutrition) and Community (Life Skills, Child protection).

Inspiration

It is Christ’s revolutionary love that Africa needs to bring radically new relationships – between clans, tribes, nations, races, political parties and ideologies. It alone can cure economic exploitations, rampant corruption, unjust laws and hostility between religious denominations. 

Bishop Festo Kivengere (1988)

Incorporation

Hope Community Action Africa (HCAA) is incorporated in Uganda by the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, registered and licensed as a Non-Profit organization by the Uganda NGO Bureau. HCAA is registered with the Finance Regulatory Authority (FIA) of Uganda, and has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kisoro District Local Government – District National NGO Monitoring Committee.

Our Focus

Demonstrating the love of Christ through word and action. Our current priorities:

  1. Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) 3-17 years, born with HIV and attending an AntiRetroviral Therapy (ART) program with a registered hospital or health center.
  2. Caregivers of the orphans and vulnerable children.

Areas of intervention:

  1. In Education: School fees, uniform, lunch
  2. In Health: Psychosocial support, Nutrition
  3. In Community: Protection, respect, relations, support.

Community Engagement:

  1. Linking OVC to HCAF prayer groups (every member linked to a child to pray for)
  2. A children’s transitional rehabilitation home

Location

Countries we are working in: Uganda (East Africa)

Our Locations within Uganda:

  1. Kisoro district (Southwest Uganda, bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo).
  2. Kampala and Wakiso districts (Central Uganda).

Active Programs by Location:

  1. Kisoro district – Kisoro OVC Intervention Project (Education, Psychosocial support, Nutrition, Protection).
  2. Kampala district (Rubaga division) – HCA Fellowship Prayer and Conference Hub (Focus on children).
  3. Wakiso district – Location of the National Liaison Office

Values

  1. God-fearing – While we respect all people categories we work with, we never compromise our loyalty to the one God who has graciously given us this assignment and by whom we shall effectively accomplish our goals. He created all of them, loves them and has the solution to the problems they face.
  2. Sustainable – Ensuring high impact and continuity, thereby reducing dependency and the rate of vulnerability for the beneficiaries. We are motivated by seeing lasting positive changes out of our interventions.
  3. Focus on Children – All our interventions are directly or strategically focused on children. Even when we may work with adults, it’s for the children that we engage their caregivers in order to reach sustainable goals.
  4. Unity – We work for unity and cohesion and live as examples in that regard. We are outside religious, social and political differences.
  5. Transparency – Our openness is intended to motivate stakeholders and increase level of investment.
  6. Accountability – We ensure timely accountability in accordance with partnership agreements. Our work is tremendous and the need is great. It’s imperative that all our partners remain confident that every donated penny with us is in safe hands.
  7. Participation – We engage the beneficiary community to own the programs intended for them, to ensure effectiveness and sustainability.
  8. Collaboration – Whatever we do, we do it to the glory of God. We achieve better results when we work with others.
  9. Equal Access – Our field operations are designed to benefit all people without religious, social, or political discrimination.

Background

The work of Hope Community Action (HCA) Africa was first inspired in August 2012 as a transformational agency encouraging parents to take responsibility for nurturing their own children into Godliness and productivity. Seven years later (July 2019), the ministry was officially established.

A Review of Bishop Festo Kivengere’s book, ‘Revolutionary Love’ (1988), created a sense of urgency to help young people find the Truth, and help adults reconnect with the true God.  Kivengere wrote,  

“It is Christ’s revolutionary love that Africa needs to bring radically new relationships – between clans, tribes, nations, races, political parties and ideologies.  It alone can cure economic exploitations, rampant corruption, unjust laws and hostility between religious denominations.”

Observing widespread leadership challenges in the 21st century creates an even deeper sense of urgency for action.  With the current human corruption and excessive worldly orientation towards competition, struggle for fame or in effort to preserve self-dignity against hard work and faithfulness, we have more hope to save the children’s future by choosing the right actions now, with whoever is willing to make a difference.  This cannot be possible unless God’s people make themselves available enough to freely interact and pray with other leaders without any selfish interest.

The HCA Fellowship was established in effort to address this need.

In December 2021 HCA learnt of the most hurting and neglected category of children, and redesigned its operational strategy to reach them. An estimated 85% of children identified then had no access to a regular food supply and about 50% of them were not in any form of school or education, due to the complexities of their circumstances and their extremely low socio-economic status.

HCA has identified Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), who are living in even worse conditions than children in refugee settlements.  Housing is as basic as anywhere in the world, children have few if any clothes.  Children are mainly in female-only-led families, and the home-head is likely to literally ‘dig for money’ as this is the only form of paid work.  Digging for money involves digging other people’s land, it’s physically brutal and very low paid.

Poverty is complex and the children are victims of circumstance. They have little or no clothes by the time we reach them, deprived of education, and living in the most basic way. The children are traumatized by the multiple challenges they face.

The OVC intervention project has been established for this purpose.