For offline donations (Centenary a/c number: 36022172 | Swift code: CERBUGKA)
For offline donations (Centenary a/c number: 36022172 | Swift code: CERBUGKA)
Home care can be the key to achieving the highest quality of life possible to enable safety, security and increased independence. whereas also ease management of ongoing medical conditions and helps one to avoid unnecessary hospitalisation. This program aids recovery after an illness, injury or hospital stay all through care given in the comfort and familiarity of one’s home providing the following.
Our staff under home care services for the elderly supports and supervises the daily personal living tasks of the most vulnerable older adults in our communities. We provide personal care services which include providing assistance with bathing and showering, dressing, going to the toilet, shaving, nail care and skin care, meal preparation, laundry and bed changing, by doing so we provide old people with the opportunity to receive discreet and sensitive one to one support from our trained private team.
We help the elderly community especially the poor living with chronic illnesses to access medical care through the respective hospital departments We have a challenge that the majority of our aging population lack access to regular income and do not benefit from the national social security provisions since its available for those in formal employment yet the majority of Ugandans are self-employed. Most live in inadequate housing with others being homeless especially in Kampala where a few are street beggars and sleep on roadsides at night with only one meal which leaves them emaciated and exposed to diseases.
We provide home modifications to help our people be more independent and safe, reduce the risk of injury to their carers and care workers. These modifications focus on increasing safety, maintaining function and independence, improving physical health and wellbeing and eliminate the need to move into an aged care facility. Some of the home modifications we offer to the elderly community include hand held showers, raised toilets and level access showers, improved light, replacing carpet with flooring that is safer and easier for mobility, widening doorways and hall ways to accommodate walkers and wheel chairs, grab bars and wheel chairs to provide stability.
We help older adults to stay safe, happy and health in their homes. Our house hold maintenance team performs minor repairs for home owners who do not have the support of resources to complete the repair themselves. Some of our house hold maintenance work include carpentry, electrical, plumbing and safety.
Dedicated and focused to addressing food insecurity for the vulnerable older adults in our communities. we provide food and pantry items to those in need including thousands of nutritious meals prepared by our team. Since majority of the aging population have a difficult time going to the grocery or trying to cook for them and offer different options to ensure that we can provide vulnerable older people with the food nutrients that they need to sustain a happy and healthy lifestyle.
Elderly Beneficiary (67 years old)
I am a resident of Namubiru village in Mukono District and a mother of five children, all school drop outs who refused to attend school intentionally and therefore denied themselves an opportunity to education. One of my children is a drug addict who decided to dedicate more of his attention to drugs, whose addiction created a deteriorating effect on my health as a result of his inappropriate behavior at home and in the community at large.
In 2021, I was diagnosed with Covid-19 and my life became severely affected, many people in Mukono thought there was no corona virus and that it was a joke. My first symptom was fever which I treated with local herbs and I did not heal. It was until I started losing my breath and was referred to hospital where I tested positive for Covid-19 and was unconscious for two days.
Throughout my two months admitted, I was on oxygen and fortunately got healed. Currently I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and the health workers advised me to make healthy life style changes and take medications as prescribed. However I failed to take the medication as prescribed by the health workers and instead resorted to using local herbs.
“Medicines that were prescribed by the doctors treated me badly whenever took them,” I said and hence resorted to using local herbs which would make me feel better. Due to self- medication, one day I was hit by a stroke, one of the complications of uncontrolled hypertension for which my legs were severely affected and got paralysed and I am now not able to move. I am being taken care of my daughter who abandoned her marriage to take care of me.
My daughter does not have a sustainable job, she does some casual work for people around the community in order to earn money that helps us meet our basic needs.
KBN Helping Hands and Wellness Foundation through their home care services for the elderly is currently working with health experts and specialists to restore my health. KBN also works as a team to provide me with food and pantry items so as to enable me and my family to sustain a happy and healthy lifestyle.
We at KBN Helping Hands and Wellness Foundation strive to help the vulnerable groups of people in the communities of Uganda.
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