Cooperation and Development
Cooperation and
Development, a private and non-profit association, is the operational branch of the
Movement Africa Mission, currently present in Uganda with two permanent
branches in Kampala and Moroto.
Founded in 1982 and
recognized as a non-profit organization with legal personality, It is a
Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.) eligible for international development
and volunteering, in compliance with Law No 49/87
regulating Italian public aid for developing countries. Since 2004,
Cooperation and Development is part of the Italian Federation of International Voluntary Service's Christian Organisms (Focsiv).
Alongside the emergency interventions still in place in a smaller extent, there are numerous projects involving different area of intervention.
There are specifically
ongoing projects in the following sectors:
• Wash sector: through the drilling and rehabilitation of wells
and the vocational training of local staff as pump mechanics;
• Health sector: supporting
Loputuk and Tapac dispensaries;
• Socio-educational sector: through
recreational activities in the Youth Center of the Moroto compound, the provision
of school lessons to children from 3 to 16 years of age, as well as the training and
awareness-raising against certain practices that are still present in those
areas, such as children and women exploitation;
• Agricultural/livestock
sector:
setting up a
veterinary laboratory, agro-pastoral schools on the field and the
Multi-sectoral Center of Rural Development of Loputuk.
• Support to local
communities which are already in the territory, through donations of food and non-food
items.
Through these interventions, the purpose is to help the communities face their state of need and to accompany them along the path to their development by giving the people the necessary means to learn and grow independently.