To create resilient community platforms that mobilize, empower and connect women, children and adolescents to the health care they need to survive and thrive. We are committed to lead demand creation efforts for Maternal and Child Health, Adolescent SRH, Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Gender Equality and Livelihood Creation.
About Us.
Women Health Channel Uganda is a registered local NGO in Uganda. We are driven by the passion to save lives, improve health and creating bright futures for women, children & adolescents.
Our Mission
Expanding horizons for communities to seek health care
We envision a future where every woman, child & adolescent is empowered & connected to seek health care and opportunities they need to survive and thrive. Guided by our mission of creating resilient community platforms that mobilize, empower and connect women, children and adolescents to the health care they need to survive and thrive. We are committed to lead demand creation, supply side and health system strengthening efforts for MCH, Family Planning, Adolescent SRH, HIV/AIDS/TB, GBV-Prevention, Livelihood-Creation, ECD and WASH.
We appreciate that values cannot be legislated but they must be lived. No other document can substitute for the attitudes, decisions and actions that make up the fundamentals of our life and work. Our shared values and behaviors bind us together and hold us to high standards for how we expect ourselves and those we work with to behave. They are our guiding principles for our ways of working, empowering our staffs and stakeholders to make informed decisions.
Passion: We are passionate about women health and in all we do, we are guided by the call to save lives and improve the wellbeing of women, children and girls. We act in ways that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every woman, child and adolescent.
Accountability: We strive to be accountable to those we work with and transparent in how we operate.
Integrity: We recognize that the resources at our disposal are not our own but from our friends, partners and donors on behalf of the communities we serve. We are faithful to the purpose for which those resources are given and manage them in a manner that brings maximum benefit for the unprivileged women, children and adolescents. We earn the trust of donors, partners, governments and the people we serve by rigorously measuring performance, sharing our results and holding ourselves accountable.
Respect: Everything we do is built on a foundation of understanding and respect for the values, beliefs, knowledge and capabilities of our staff, our local partners and the people we serve.
Courage: We go where others often won’t among the most underserved and in the hardest-to-reach communities confronting obstacles to achieve our mission.
Collaboration: We embrace diverse perspectives and disciplines, joining with partners at the local, national, and global levels towards a common vision and the realization of better health outcomes for women, children and adolescents.
- To reduce maternal and child deaths through ensuring access to critical health information and services by women at community level on pregnancy care, birth preparedness, safe delivery, EMOC, postnatal care, new born care, immunization, nutrition, family planning and EMTCT services.
- To improve livelihoods of women/households so that women have resilient and sustainable sources of income to finance their regular health and nutrition needs and that of their children
- To equip adolescents with life skills to enable them make responsible and informed decisions to avert teenage pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, school dropouts and early marriages.
- To eliminate gender-based violence.
- To improve access to quality ECD services by children 0-8 who are growing up in socially and economically constrained settings in Uganda.
- Support and facilitate processes for the adoption of hygiene and sanitation best practices at household and community level.
- To lobby and advocate for improved services delivery by government and other actors for the benefit of women, children and adolescents at community level.