Integrated Community Development Initiative (ICODI)
About ICODI:ICODI is a registered non-profit located in SouthWestern Uganda. Its mission is to work with and through individuals and communities. The goal is to reduce the high levels of famine, poverty, ill-health and illiteracy in the rural communities of Mbarara, to improve the economic, health and social wellbeing of all the people who live in them.
 | Mbarara: largest urban centre in Western Uganda, 295 km (183 mi) SW of Kampala (Uganda's capital) by road |
ICODI's Goals:
i. Reduce the high levels of famine, poverty and illiteracy affecting both rural and urban poor communities.
ii. Improve the health standards and raise the social well being of Mbarara's rural and urban poor communities with their full participation.
ICODI's Objectives:
i. Eliminate high levels of illiteracy among the rural and urban poor.
ii. Promote better health standards in rural and urban poor communities: reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB by encouraging awareness and use of prevention measures. Major epidemics of these diseases kill hundreds of poor Ugandans every day; Uganda's rural communities are even more vulnerable today than they were some decades ago, due to the corrosive effects of poverty and drought.
iii. Train and support rural and urban poor people to start small income-generating activities so that their children will be able to attend school and attain formal education.
iv. Reduce high levels of poverty by training and supporting the rural poor, including youth, to start sustainable income-generating activities that will provide food while encouraging youth to acquire entrepreneurial skills.
i. Reduce the high levels of famine, poverty and illiteracy affecting both rural and urban poor communities.
ii. Improve the health standards and raise the social well being of Mbarara's rural and urban poor communities with their full participation.
ICODI's Objectives:
i. Eliminate high levels of illiteracy among the rural and urban poor.
ii. Promote better health standards in rural and urban poor communities: reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB by encouraging awareness and use of prevention measures. Major epidemics of these diseases kill hundreds of poor Ugandans every day; Uganda's rural communities are even more vulnerable today than they were some decades ago, due to the corrosive effects of poverty and drought.
iii. Train and support rural and urban poor people to start small income-generating activities so that their children will be able to attend school and attain formal education.
iv. Reduce high levels of poverty by training and supporting the rural poor, including youth, to start sustainable income-generating activities that will provide food while encouraging youth to acquire entrepreneurial skills.
