National Anti AIDS Basketball Campaign

BRIEF INSIGHT INTO NYBC UGANDA 2008 

NYBC Uganda is a national, voluntary, non-discriminatory and non-profit, community based non governmental organization registered under the trustees incorporation act of Uganda. it is affiliated to the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Kampala, Uganda Branch and is supported by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) formerly family planning association of Uganda (FPAU) and its partner Plan Uganda with Financial support from Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). RHU is a registered member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in America and is celebrating 50yrs of existence.

we network with various Non-profit organisations and profit entities in order to achieve our goals and objectives and among these organisations include: Uganda National AIDS Defensive Organisation (UNADO), Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU) - Popularly known through its behavour change communication campaign that involves Young empowered and healthy Y.E.A.R as well as "Be a Man" Campaign, International Contact Uganda located in Kampala and links Volunteers to Ugandan organisation for Voluntary work.

club memebers and visisting team from Family planning association of sweden now RFSA pose for a group photo during the annual achievers at the RHU Head quarters at Katego - Kamwokya. The team featured above took the National Basketball League Bronze medal 2007 and were promoted to a higher division.

 Achievers Day Celebration: During the annual achievers day celegbrations, RHU recognised the various individuals and clubs that have contributed tremendously in the past years. The Guest of honor was the Chairperson National Executive Committee RHU who stood in for the Youth Member of parliament - Western region. Honorable Kasaija who at the moment was in parliament for an emergency sitting.

 A number of activities were carried out durring the achievers day and among others  include; award of certificates for special recognitions, visiting the new youth corner offices where a number of Information and Education Communication materials (IEC)/Behavor change communication materials were displayed. these included posters, flyers, fact sheets, burners, magazines and brochures. Music and dance was also an entertainment activity that was carried out and the biggest achievers were the NYBC Biston Planets basketball Team that handed to the guest of honor a trophy it carried from the past basketball season alongside bronze medals as a token of appreciation.

ABOVE: the visiting team from sweden attending the achievers day celbration listen to the representative RFSA while she addresses the congregation. 

BELOW: the executive director RHU - Mr Elly Mugumya watches as the Member of Parliament honorable: Mrs Rebbecca Lukwago receives the trophy from the executive secretary NYBC- Uganda Mr apedel  Andrew who was escorted  by the ISOP Project officer Mr Odell Lewis and Club point guard Micheal M. from The Republic of Kenya.

GOAL:
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other related diseased amongst the young people and eradicate extreme poverty in a gender sensitive manner.

MISSION:
Behavioral change communication through basketball as a means of mobilizing and sensitizing the young people in Uganda.

VISION
Prevention of HIV/AIDS and other related diseases through abstinence and eradicating extreme poverty through capacity building and youth empowerment.

OBJECTIVES/STRATEGIES
(a). spreading well informed and meaningful messages on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRH/R)through various channels with basketball as a social-cultural activity of mobilizing the young people.

(b). Promote abstinence among the young people through keeping them busy during their free time so as to prevent them from indulging in risky behaviors like: - Smoking Opium, Drinking Alcohol, Rape, Defilement, unwanted pregnancy, poor hygiene, etc that can lead to contracting HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

(c). Capacity building through trainings and workshops, seminars and rallies thus to improve the special skills of the young people for future self sustainability and independence.

d). to network with other organizations that offer reproductive health and youth friendly services for sufficient service delivery to the community

(e). To fund raise and mobilize various commodities for charity homes, orphanages, home for the disabled persons, etc

SCHOOL OUTREACH PROGRAMME 

We carry out school visits under our institutional based sports outreach program and during these visits we carry out group discussions and various sports related discussions and activities. Among the schools we have visited in the past years include:

Eagles nest, Crane high, Lubiri S .S, Makerere College, Mengo s.s, St peters college Naalya
Kitante high school, St Michael High school, Mary hill high school, Mbarara high school
Makerere college, Sseta high school
Kabojja sec. school (now closed), Tororo progressive, Manjansi high school, St peters college Tororo, Bishop kihangire sec. school
Progressive campus bweyogerere, Kampala hill academy, Gayaza high school, Bishop kihangire secondary school

 INSTITUTIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMME
We also extend our outreach program to institutions of higher learning like: YMCA Kampala Branch, Makerere University, Mukono University, Ndejje University, Bugema University and Kyambogo University. Here we share a platform of ideas that are both based of research and literature review, communication and behavior change.
All the above institutions have their set committees under a youth empowerment project that also exists under the RHU projects and offers the youth clubs in these institutions an environment for capacity building and practice of better leadership skills. Our institutional outreach program encompasses a module in adolescent sexual and reproductive health based approach to the unmet needs for quality SRH services. We reach out to these institutions through their student leaders and administrator and we use basketball as an activity of mobilizing the students.

SPORTS OUTREACH PROJECT:

We normally carry out basketball clinics in order to build and develop the skills of the various young people who have taken up basketball as a sport of their choice and would like to make it to the national scene. These skills are meant for all participants thus we charge no fees with all training expenses charged on the club. Various Youths from all over Kampala come to our training venues and attend skills training sessions and thus become affiliate members to the club and if they are not committed to other clubs, they can become full members. 
The skills trainings are carried out by either internal or external facilitators who at times are the team coaches, trainers or captains. We welcome all skilled and talented members who would like to share their experiences with to participate in the trainings.

We organize and participate in various tournaments all year round, both national and international. However we have one very important and remarkable tournament that is the “NATIONAL ANTI AIDS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT” always abbreviated as NAAB Tournament. The aim of this tournament is to bring together several institutions, schools, communities and basketball club with a goal of passing meaningful messages to those who attend the tournament and at the same time fundraise for the disadvantaged young persons in the country. The tournament has so far been held twice and its third edition is slotted for 2008.
Among the tournaments we have participated in include the Makerere open basketball tournament organized by Makerere university, st Michael invitational basketball tournament organized by st Michael high school in Sonde Mukono district, ABE Lincoln Memorial tournament – Kampala, Uganda, Kenyatta Day Memorial tournament – Kisumu, Kenya, YMCA Open gala – YMCA, Kampala, Allen Houston Community tournament – Kampala, Uganda.
Hoops for Hope Charity basketball tournament – Kampala, Uganda.

The Biston planets have been very much interested in young children especially the orphans and the street children. Although we have never approached the street children, we have successfully mapped the orphanage homes like: Watoto babies home, Ssanyu babies home, Kirinya Babies home, etc. we expect to reach all homes in Kawempe division, nakawa division and bweyogerere. In order for this exercise to be possible, we network with the youth corner staff members of RHU, CDFU, and other organizations that are not profit oriented and work within the reproductive health concept. Below are pictorial illustrations of our home visits within Kampala. Watoto babies’ home was the home.

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   this loggo space is vaccant because we are renewing our partnership with all the organisations involved.