Why Us
Hanifah Karadi Foundation aims at creating a long lasting "Mothering Community" nature across all regions in Uganda. As quoted by "Arlene E. Edwards", The Relationship Between Mothering and the Community Work of Women, is very essential for maintaining a flourishing environment in a Century fast evolving with the help of science and technology.
Scholars have recently focused more on work-life balance among professionals, especially for women. The literature often explores the complicated skills needed by women to enable them to navigate between competing demands in their professional careers and their domestic lives as mothers. Although the boundaries between working outside the home and mothering as a domestic responsibility have been narrowed by advances in technology, most women still find it difficult to blend their professional careers with the home space while simultaneously playing mothering roles (Fonner and Roloff 205-31; Leonardi et al. 85-105)
Hanifah Karadi Foundation was founded in 2015 with aim of creating a long lasting "Mothering Community" nature across all regions in Uganda. We have been able to reach out to different communities for example people with disabilities, orphaned children, street children, the elderly among others. We have a variety of community uplifting programs for example tailoring, knitting, home economics, small scale industries, reading and writing among others. Our office is found in Naalya, Kampala - Uganda.
What we know
We know that birth marks not only a mother but also an entire community, as new identities and sociocultural networks are formed and expanded. In this chapter, we explore the ripple effects of one birth as well as the role that friendship plays in connecting and impacting global mothering communities. To assist this exploration, we follow the ripple effects of birth from one community to another—taking us across international borders.
Advocacy
We believe in the power of one voice. It has the ability to achieve the impossible, overcome inequality, challenge harmful behaviours, and call for justice for children.
We mobilise voices across the world. We amplify those voices, especially those of children. We harness these voices to call for what is right, fair and just.
We want to change the way the world works for children and create a lasting, sustainable impact.
Hanifah Karadi Foundation brings together workshops for children and adults, performances, talks, live concerts, listening sessions, picnics, plays and experimentation. The Foundation explores forms of communal care work: How can care workers be shared beyond existing but often inadequate family and institutional structures? How can caregiving be reinvented and organised for existing and future generations?
Mothers, Community, and Friendship is an anthology that explores the complexities of mothering /motherhood, communities, and friendship from across interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. The chapters in this text not only examine how communities and friendship shape and influence the various spectrums of motherhood, but also analyze how communities and friendship are necessary for mothers. Through personal, reflective, critical essays, and ethnographies, this collection situates the ways mothers are connected to communities and how these relationships forms, such as in mothering groups and maternal friendships.
Gender Equality
The foundation is growing steadily and we aim at achieving goals that include girl child empowerment through education, street children rehabilitation, vocational skills training, mothering community programs among others.
By calling attention to these central and current topics, Mothers, Community, and Friendship represents how communities and friendship become means of empowerment for mothers. The central pivot and location of the project is in Naalya and we also have offices in Mbarara, Uganda.
This is a world built on transformative change – to the dismantling of patriarchal, discriminatory gender norms and the inequalities they sustain.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future.
Discrimination has no place in the 21st Century, and every girl has the right to go to school, stay safe from violence, access health services, and fully participate in her community.
Fundamentally, this is a human rights issue.
Our vision is for a world where all girls and boys are equally heard and valued, where they have equitable access and time to devote to education, to work, to rest and to play.
These norms affect both boys and girls but have a disproportionate impact on girls, preventing them from claiming their rights, exposing them to harmful practices, driving rights abuses in their homes, relationships and communities, and through embedded structural inequalities that shape their lives from childhood through adulthood.
Some girls face even greater challenges due to multiple and intersecting forms of deprivation and marginalization based on poverty and characteristics such as ethnicity, displacement and location.
The world we want is a world in which no girl faces gender-based discrimination, suffers violence or marries before her 18th birthday, and every last girl fully enjoys her right to be protected from harm, to learn, survive and thrive. Her world is one in which her aspirations know no limits and she is free to fulfil her potential, to have equal opportunities, to decide her own future and empower those around her.
Sexual and Gender based Violence:
- Around 120 million girls worldwide (slightly more than 1 in 10) have experienced forced sex or other forced sexual acts.
- Girls represent nearly three out of every four child trafficking victims, with the majority trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
- By 2030, over 150 million more girls will marry before they are 18 - despite global progress. Today, the poorest girls are 4 times more likely to marry in childhood than the richest
Why empower girls
3. Empowered girls are key to breaking the cycle of poverty for families around the world.
Research from Makerere University has found that every additional year of school increases a girl's eventual wages by an average of 12% - earnings she invests back into her family. Empowered, educated children and higher wages - helping to break the cycle of poverty.
4. Empowered girls strengthen economies.
According to a new University research report, "Increasing the number of women completing secondary education by just 1 percent could increae a country's economic growth by 0.3 percent." Additionally, a report just released by the Makerere University found that if women's level of participation in the labor market was the same as men's it would add up to 20 percent of the global GDP in 2025.
5. It is the right thing to do.
investing in girls is one of the smartest things we can do to promote a healthier, more prosperous world. More importantly, its the right thing to do. Every girl has the right to be in charge of her future and fate, and we have the collective obligation to protect her rights and promote her wellbeing.
Change is needed to ensure that girls are the drivers of their own futures
To achieve these goals, Hanifah Karadi Foundation is committed to working with governments to end child marriage globally and to create the conditions where every girl has the opportunity to not only live, but also to thrive and achieve her full potential. Save the Children is striving to ensure:
Decision-makers are accountable to girls:
International and regional actors, governments and donors are held accountable for advancing girls’ rights and to accelerating progress to end child marriage and its consequences.
In Uganda, street children are mainly found in city centers for example Kampala City, Gulu, Mbarara among others. Due to their vulnerable position, street children can get trapped in a cycle of violence and exploitation.
It’s hard to reach them with vital services such as education and healthcare. They miss out on their right to education because they are trying to support themselves or their families, so less formal approaches might be needed to try to get them into learning.
Empowering street children
Hanifah Karadi Foundation has greatly impacted on society through the following activities;
1. Its her right
Fundamentally, this is a human rights issue. Discriminationhas no place in the 21st Century, and every girl has the right to go to school, stay safe from violence, access health services, and fully participate in her community.
2. Empowered girls mean healthier families.
When girls are educated, healthy, and empowered, families are healthier. According to UNESCO, 2.1 million children under age 5 were saved between 1990 and 2009 because of improvements in girls' education. And closing the gap in the unmet need for family planning for the 225 million girls aand women who want to delay or avoid pregnancy but aren't using modern contraception would reduce maternal deaths by 67% and newborn deaths by 77%.
Who are Street Children ?
Many street children are still in contact with their families, who may be extremely poor, and will work on the streets to contribute to their family’s income. They might be working out on the streets during the day and going back to their family home at night.
Hanifah Karadi gives hope to street children
Cores Values
" James (1993) provides three reasons for the usefulness of an understanding of the roles of other mothers which gives shape to rationale and to the purpose of this study. First, understanding the roles will address feelings of importance by indicating historical ways in which women empowered themselves. Second, understanding allows for reconceptualization of power as a means toward action rather than a commodity. Third, the talents exhibited in analyzing and critiquing situations and developing workable strategies may be viewed as possible resources for addressing contemporary community needs. Given these premises, the study investigated the concept of mothering as it relates to the community work experience of women, through use of phenomenological research methods.