HUMAN RIGHT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

Light House targeted good governance in the objective to promote and protect human rights that supports local governance and empowers communities. It seeks to empower the people in order to enable them to enlarge their choices and opportunities to participate in decisions that affect their lives as well as their capacities to mobilise and channel the resources required to ensure peoples rights. Light House facilitates civil society groups so that they can initiate their own development activities with intensive public participation in all levels. It is working to develop the planning and management capacity of local authorities and enable increased allocation of public resources.

HEALTH NUTRITION AND HIV & AIDS

Fighting HIV/AIDS is an important part of the work of Light House as part of its renewed commitment to social development priorities. The main focus of these projects is to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS issues and reduce the risks and vulnerability of our targets group. We have drop in centres in strategic areas offering rest and recreational facilities, VCT, STI treatment and referral, and BCC training. We employ outreach workers and peer educators from the target groups to help us.

POVERTY REDUCTION & INCREASE FOOD SECURITY

The poor are not without an income; what they lack is the ability to accumulate assets, and expertise to run economic activities for income generation which Light House initiated as microfinance program to alleviate poverty. It supports the beneficiaries to manage their own affairs through training and provide micro-credit for economic emancipation to the poor. It support projects focusing on community-based IGA, integrated crop cultivation, community based trading, small entrepreneurship, credit and savings and emergency assistance. Light House main target groups are poor ethnic minorities, farmers and the unemployed with a special focus on women