Plot 1096. Block 18, Sir Albert Cook Road
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Key Project Objectives:
- Prepare and position : Support women leaving prisons in Uganda by providing them resources that can enable them to navigate their re-entry journey after leaving prison .
- Safe Supportive Housing: Transitional safe homes for women and their children leaving Uganda prisons in Uganda, so that they are able to regenerate, reconnect, restart and rise!
- Psychosocial support: Providing support for women leaving prison that addresses challenges of general health especially HIV/AIDS related issues, mental health, practical assistance and social marginalization and social reconnection to prevent recidivism and promote stability
- Family Reunification: Facilitating reconnection of mothers with their children and family after separation due to being away in prison.
- Legal Services: Offering free legal services to mothers in prison and those leaving prison to assist with removing barriers to gender justice and reintegration through legal aid, advocacy, and rights education.
- Individual Empowerment and Development: Enhancing safe and smooth re-entry by Providing holistic support , including career development, job placement, resume building, and assistance with obtaining essential documents (National Identity Card).
- Empowerment: Fostering leadership and self reliance through the different projects laid out (skills training, livelihood grants-boost and mentorship).
While Wells of Hope ministries conducted a research that was to aid in the documentation of Uganda’s first ever Re-entry guide, a booklet that is meant to offer information to people in prison about how to access the basic needs and services during and after incarceration like medical care, education, obtaining a national ID, getting a passport and many others. The researchers found out that one of the basic needs is housing. It was a challenge to identify any reliable form of housing that a person that is leaving prison can go to. And yet, as a vast number of individuals shared – both the ones that had previously been released and those still in incarceration, one would require a place to go to especially on the release day as they embrace their new found freedom and as they prepare for a life after prison. Whereas both men and women face challenges resettling back in their communities, the research showed that given their vulnerability women are more disadvantaged and can hardly manoeuvre through their communities unlike their male counterparts. The men, are often easily accepted in their communities and homes which Is the direct opposite for the women. This often leads the women to be the common victims of recidivism as they often go back to the crimes that had them incarcerated before as they try to seek for survival.
