- Advance education and relieve poverty and sickness of children in Uganda and in such other areas as the trustees may from time to time determine.
- Promote the efficiency and development of charities, particularly through the provision of consultancy and staff development.
- Provide appropriate advice, counselling and/or training to persons who may become unemployed or who have become disabled or otherwise incapacitated as a result of illness, life crisis or accident.
- The means by which an individual is enabled to reach or aspire to his or her potential in regard to his or her development.
- A way of helping people help themselves through education that takes into account affective and spiritual development as well as development of knowledge, skills, and understanding.
- In partnership with schools in the UK - 4 shipments of educational materials as ‘shoe-box appeals’ two in 1999, one in 2001 and 2005; to promote participation and dialogue across cultures; to facilitate primary schooling in Bungaruguru county; and to establish a library facility.
- Developing a maize mill business with BODCO to facilitate sustainable development of BODCO
- Establishing a goat-rearing project to enable a sustainable source of income for members of BODCO for their education costs
- Ndekye Women’s Support Group – funding to establish a co-operative
- Bakyaara Twekambe Women Group – funding to establish a pig-rearing project
- Supplying AOET with a steriliser for an HIV/AIDS clinic for children and their guardians
- Type-writing classes 1999-2002 to facilitate a stepping stone to computer classes
- In partnership with ThreeX Communications a software company in the UK we shipped over:
- computers for AOET empowerment project (based in Jinja)
- computers for BODCO to support their work and create a fundraising facility
- computers for Bushenyi District Education – see photo
- computers for AOET empowerment project (based in Jinja)
- Supporting education through JP Bernacca Teacher Training Fund:
- five teachers learning sign language as part of special needs teacher training
- three members of BODCO through secondary school (prior to teacher training)
- one young woman with partial sight through teacher training
- four teachers with further studies
- Integrated Schooling – dormitory furbished for disabled children to access schooling
- Advantage
- Speedwell project
- YUMI
- Transformative Living
Our objectives are to: Whilst our objectives are quite distinct, what underpins them is a common approach – that of Whole Person Learning which is: Between the trustees of ODEF there is considerable experience of peer learning and facilitating communities and groups from their own strategic response to the questions before them. The trustees have often been involved with organisations at the start of their life, and when significant reviews of direction are being undertaken, drawing on organisational experience in the UK, New Zealand, USA, Uganda, Sweden, Ireland and South Africa. They also bring experience of a wide range of training development initiatives and setting up of counselling services. They attend carefully to how we offer support - and to whom - as our funds are limited. Our Current initiativesWe provide administrative support to, and actively promote, The World's Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child; an inspiring initiative that promotes global citizenship using democratic principles run for children and mainly by children, offering what the media calls ‘the children’s Nobel prize’. Schools across the country are registering to participate in this initiative. In the UK, the range of development needs we can respond to is in the field of human relations. Two programmes are delivered free of charge from our base at The Oasis School of Human Relations in Boston Spa. These are open for free to individuals and the not-for-profit sector; Working with Others and The Developing Manager - an exploration. Our work in Uganda continues; supporting sustainable projects getting established, particularly focusing on education and women’s co-operative groups. We hope to promote The World's Children’s Prize in Uganda in the future. Our work up to now
In Uganda The project that initiated ODEF was a partnership with a Community Bases Organisation (CBO) based in the county of Bunyaruguru in Uganda; Bunyaruguru Orphans and Disabled Children’s Organisation (BODCO). It is out of that initial warm and enriching connection that all the initiatives in Uganda have come: And in the UK As the trustees have been involved with charities and worked with CVS's and other voluntary organisations in several parts of the country, we know that the kind of training and consultancy work ODEF can offer is useful for both the volunteer base and paid staff in such organisations. The free programmes have varied over the years and some have been taken into the not-for-profit sector through In addition we have supported a number of initiatives in the UK including: 
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our Human Relations and Counselling Certificates. A Women’s Centre brought this programme to their users who used it as their first step back into learning and/or a working environment, and for members of staff for their own development. Some participants found the confidence to make personal changes, some to seek paid employment, and some sought and gained promotion as a result of the programme