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 an 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.
Clean Water Commissioning
Boreholes are considered to provide the best and safest water for domestic, industrial and communal work.
Benefits of Clean water include the following;
- Reduces headaches
- Helps mental alertness
- Benefits digestion
- Helps with constipation
- Replenishes skin tissue
- Anti-aging properties
- Regulates body temperature
- Maintains healthy fluid
The Foundation is involved in;
- Education outreach
- Religious interactions
- Health seminars
- Clean water commisioning
- Street Children rehabilitation
- Mothering Community
- Girl child empowerment
- Pactical skills development
- Community fundraising
Activities
Health care advocacy
Many communities throughout the country have limited access to proper health care. We intend to work hand inhand with all government and non government organizations to ensure advocacy for setting up of health facilities and functioning units especially in remote areas of the country
As people age, they might not receive the best care, particularly if they don’t have children or other family members advocating on their behalf. People aged 65+ currently make up about 14 % of the Ugandan population, and this number is expected to rise.
This prompts us to take affirmative action towards to the stable and prolonged elderly care provided to them at all times. Strong emphasis put on this subject matter will enable the increase on the life span of elderly people living in Uganda.
Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults. It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care.
Elder care
Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare. Much elderly care is unpaid.
Elderly care includes a broad range of practices and institutions, as there is a wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly throughout the world.
Cultural and geographic differences
The form of care provided for older adults varies greatly by country and even region, and is changing rapidly. Older people worldwide consume the most health spending of any age group.
There is also an increasingly large proportion of older people worldwide, especially in developing nations with continued pressure to limit fertility and shrink families.
Traditionally, care for older adults has been the responsibility of family members and was provided within the extended family home. Increasingly in modern societies, care is now provided by state or charitable institutions. The reasons for this change include shrinking families, longer life expectancy and geographical dispersion of families. Although these changes have affected European and North American countries first, they are now increasingly affecting Asian countries.
In most western countries, care facilities for older adults are residential family care homes, freestanding assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). A family care home is a residential home with support and supervisory personnel by an agency, organization, or individual that provides room and board, personal care and habilitation services in a family environment for at least two and no more than six persons.
Due to the wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly, there is a broad range of practices and institutions across different parts of the world. For example, in many Asian countries whereby younger generations often care for the elderly due to societal norms, government-run elderly care is seldom used in developing countries throughout Asia due to a lack of sufficient taxation necessary to provide an adequate standard of care, whilst privately-run elderly care in developing countries throughout Asia is relatively uncommon due to the stigma of exhibiting insufficient filial piety, having a relatively relaxed work–life interface and insufficient funding from family to pay for privately-run elderly care.
However, institutional elderly care is increasingly adopted across various Asian societies, as the work–life interface becomes more constrained and people with increasing incomes being able to afford the cost of elderly care.
Improving physical mobility
Medical (skilled care) versus non-medical (social care)
A distinction is generally made between medical and non-medical care, the latter not being provided by medical professionals and much less likely to be covered by insurance or public funds. In the US, 67% of the one million or so residents in assisted living facilities pay for care out of their own funds.
The rest get help from family and friends and from state agencies. Medicare does not pay unless skilled-nursing care is needed and given in certified skilled nursing facilities or by a skilled nursing agency in the home. Assisted living facilities usually do not meet Medicare's requirements. However, Medicare pays for some skilled care if the elderly person meets the requirements for the Medicare home health benefit.
People pay for care in assisted living facilities through their Medicaid waiver programs. Similarly, in Uganda, the National Health Service provides medical care for the elderly, as for all, free at the point of use to introduce any legislation on the matter and so social care is not funded by public authorities unless a person has exhausted their private resources, such as by selling the home. Money provided for supporting elderly people in Uganda has fallen by 20% per person during the ten years from 2005 to 2015 and in real terms, the fall is even greater. Experts claim that vulnerable people do not get what they need.
However, elderly care is focused on satisfying the expectations of two tiers of customers: the resident customer and the purchasing customer, who are often not identical, since relatives or public authorities, rather than the resident, may be providing the cost of care. If residents are confused or have communication difficulties, it may be very difficult for relatives or other concerned parties to be sure of the standard of care being given, and the possibility of elder abuse is a continuing source of concern. The Adult Protective Services Agency, a component of the human service agency in most states, is typically responsible for investigating reports of domestic elder abuse and providing families with help and guidance. Other professionals who may be able to help include doctors or nurses, police officers, lawyers, and social workers.