The process of recovery is multi-faceted and Invisible Children Inc recognizes that. Their process of recovery includes many tiers: Mend, Wash, Adult Literacy, Village Savings and Loans, Teacher Exchange, Schools for Schools, Legacy Scholarship, and Rehabilitation. These programs are all owned by the community so that they can again become self-sufficient as Invisible Children Inc. emphasizes.
Mend:
This is a program directed at the recovery of women in Uganda affected by the LRA conflict. Mend is a social enterprise that not only produces handbags but instructs women on how to tailor high quality products, manage finances, and develop interpersonal skills. The seamstresses are taught to sustain themselves. Through Mend, Ugandan women can also receive counseling and education. This allows the seamstress to live a sustainable life possibly investing in their children's future and education as well as providing a home for themselves and their family as well as maintain income generating activities.
Wash:
WASH focuses its recovery efforts on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. They drill safe water drinking points. Invisible Children then selects members from the community to ensure that this drinking point remains clean and safe. The community members are also trained how extensive sanitation and hygiene practices. This yields better, survivable living conditions for the residents of the community as well as knowledge on how to maintain these living conditions for themselves. Tools and materials are even provided to homes not obtaining the means to maintain safe and sanitary living conditions.
Adult Literacy:
Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) provides instruction on numeracy, reading, and writing in their local language, Luo to members of the Village Savings and Loans Association.
Village Savings and Loans:
This association empowers residence of these affected communities to take control and learn to manage their own finances. It empowers them to take charge over their own lives. A group consisting of about 30 community members meets once a week to save, take out loans, repay loans with interest, and invest. The group is managed by its own members. The money has been used to pay for their children's education, pay for livestock, and even start a personal business.
Teacher Exchange:
Teacher exchange forms partnerships with various skills in order to provide students with a diverse education. It is a way of exchanging different cultures and learning from one another how education/culture from the Western world can be merged with the education and culture of Uganda.
Schools for Schools:
This program not only renovates schools but also improves the educational climate by training teachers, providing career and curriculum counseling for teachers and students in order to give students the best education possible. To provide students in Uganda with the amenities available to students in the Western culture.
Legacy Scholarship:
Merit based scholarships are given to students. University students mentor secondary school students. Future leaders of Uganda are molded.
Rehabilitation:
Holistic care is given to children who have been abducted by the LRA and have suffered high-levels of trauma. Rehabilitation center have been built providing victims with psychosocial experts as well as doctors to reintegrate children into their communities. Each center can care for 150 children at a time. Each child-victim can remain at the facility for 6 months before being reintroduced into society and live with their family.
Mend:
This is a program directed at the recovery of women in Uganda affected by the LRA conflict. Mend is a social enterprise that not only produces handbags but instructs women on how to tailor high quality products, manage finances, and develop interpersonal skills. The seamstresses are taught to sustain themselves. Through Mend, Ugandan women can also receive counseling and education. This allows the seamstress to live a sustainable life possibly investing in their children's future and education as well as providing a home for themselves and their family as well as maintain income generating activities.
Wash:
WASH focuses its recovery efforts on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. They drill safe water drinking points. Invisible Children then selects members from the community to ensure that this drinking point remains clean and safe. The community members are also trained how extensive sanitation and hygiene practices. This yields better, survivable living conditions for the residents of the community as well as knowledge on how to maintain these living conditions for themselves. Tools and materials are even provided to homes not obtaining the means to maintain safe and sanitary living conditions.
Adult Literacy:
Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) provides instruction on numeracy, reading, and writing in their local language, Luo to members of the Village Savings and Loans Association.
Village Savings and Loans:
This association empowers residence of these affected communities to take control and learn to manage their own finances. It empowers them to take charge over their own lives. A group consisting of about 30 community members meets once a week to save, take out loans, repay loans with interest, and invest. The group is managed by its own members. The money has been used to pay for their children's education, pay for livestock, and even start a personal business.
Teacher Exchange:
Teacher exchange forms partnerships with various skills in order to provide students with a diverse education. It is a way of exchanging different cultures and learning from one another how education/culture from the Western world can be merged with the education and culture of Uganda.
Schools for Schools:
This program not only renovates schools but also improves the educational climate by training teachers, providing career and curriculum counseling for teachers and students in order to give students the best education possible. To provide students in Uganda with the amenities available to students in the Western culture.
Legacy Scholarship:
Merit based scholarships are given to students. University students mentor secondary school students. Future leaders of Uganda are molded.
Rehabilitation:
Holistic care is given to children who have been abducted by the LRA and have suffered high-levels of trauma. Rehabilitation center have been built providing victims with psychosocial experts as well as doctors to reintegrate children into their communities. Each center can care for 150 children at a time. Each child-victim can remain at the facility for 6 months before being reintroduced into society and live with their family.