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About Integrated Efforts to Support the Youth
Integrated Efforts to Support the Youth (IESY) was founded in 2007 and is a registered CBO with a registration number IDIG/189/09. IESY is currently operating in Iganga District. It has 40 full registered members and about 150 beneficiaries. It is departmentalized into various departments including Youth, Women, Students and the Old each headed by a representative.
IESY is working under the following Program areas.
1. Self help economic projects such as agriculture and they include Piggery, Poultry, Commercial Colonal Coffee Seedlings, and Brick laying
2. Health with major concern on HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
3. Environmental Conservation and Sustainability
4. Research and Documentation
IESY launched a sensitization program starting from Bulamagi sub county Iganga district to fight against the rampant spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria, poverty, women and children rights abuse.
As a result of the above program, fifty seven male youths were circumcised as away of minimizing the chances of contracting HIV/AIDS.
IESY further made a survey about the awareness of the spread of HIV/AIDS and the possible preventive measures in rural areas. The case study included Mayuge, Bugiri, Kiyunga, Namutumba, Namwendwa, and Kaliro of which a quota of twenty (20) respondents were interviewed per area, coming to a total of one hundred and twenty respondents, the age group was between 16yrs and 30yrs.
Basing on the field findings, most of the youths especially in rural areas are aware of the spread of HIV/AIDS and its consequences however, they are ignorant and reluctant to adopt the possible preventive measures such as Abstainance, Being faithful and use of condoms commonly known as “ABC”, and as IESY, this left us with a challenge to join efforts and expand our services to various areas in the country
In the field of development, IESY has come up with projects like brick laying, poultry and piggery as a way of uplifting the economic standards of the very poor in the community. However, this is still on a small scale due to limited resources.
In an effort to expand on this, we are calling upon the government, NGOs both local and international, institutions and individuals to come up and support the common cause
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