Cambridge Community Rehabilitation &|Environmental Protection ( CCREP)
ABOUT CCREP
Cambridge Community
Rehabilitation & Environmental Protection ( CCREP) started when some enthusiastic and entrepreneurial people came together with the same heart and passion for Uganda. When we started helping people in vulnerable conditions and saw our lives change, after long discussions and prayer about how more should be supported, we started CCREP. This organization supports the disadvantaged communities in Eastern Uganda with its head office located in Jinja district.
We believe in helping the people of the community to push them out of poverty and spread of diseases which are the key factors to the great suffering of mankind in Uganda. Poverty and diseases are the major reason why we try to help in areas of health care, education, starting agricultural projects, provision of shelter and discipleship.
With that in mind, we are the first to admit that we are not that rich nor claim to be, but we overcome by combining ideas and efforts. This is how you come into play that with your support and ideas help move us further. We would be more successful in our projects if we had a number of friends to join us as volunteers, donors, sponsors, partners, prayer partners and well-wishers.
Ccrep has a team of twelve (12) reputable members. The team must approve that the projects we intend to establish would benefit the community and that they would work. Anyone in Ccrep must understand this. Our openness about ideas and how things are being run make us transparent and have great success. There is strict accountability with each team member and all projects are well documented by taking pictures as well as written reports and interviews with recipients. Everyone within Ccrep understands that the most important part of our job is to be kind, responsible and transparent to our donors, sponsors, partners, supporters and other staff. It is our desire to come along side those in need and help them become successful on their own.
We are a ministry and how we treat the money we receive is just as important as the people we are helping. Our openness and strong beliefs have created an environment that is very productive and beneficial for everyone involved. The bond and trust between the team members is God-given.
At present Ccrep has no abroad donation, partnership and extra support though we have hosted some friends who have come to volunteer with us. It is therefore our appeal that you support us financially but also become involved. Although your money is nice and we will gladly take it, we want you to be impacted more! We want you to feel the love and blessings which come with giving. We want you to pray with us for the children and the adults we are working with. We want you to see where your hard earned money and efforts would go. So we ask you to partner with us as much as you will whether this will be through financial donating, praying with us, coming for a trip or visit, gift giving or volunteering with us. We want you to see how together we can change the lives of the people of Uganda.
We shall be very grateful to hear from you.
Our Vision
To have a God fearing, health and self-sustaining community through churches, education centres, and livelihoods centres and environmental protection measures by well wishers and friends.
Our Mission
To strengthen and transform the beneficiaries into a healthy, productive and sustainable community.
Our Objectives
1.Support and protect orphaned children from fatalism, rights abuse and oppression and provision of a conducive environment for their development and growth.
2.Provide basic and skills oriented education to the children and their caretakers to enable them earn a living.
3.Provide adequate health care and protection from diseases and ill health condition.
4.Mold and up bring children who are God fearing to disseminate the gospel of the word of Jesus.
5.To provide emergency protective care, transitional families and community reintegration services for orphans and other vulnerable children.
6.To operate as an approved, registered and compliant children's organization..
7.To provide a safe shelter and family-like environment for orphans and other vulnerable children who have no one else to take care of them.
8.To provide children under our care with adequate diet, clothing, access to safe health- care, age-appropriate education and guidance, while protecting them from neglect, discrimination, violence and abuse.
9.To endeavor to reconnect with existing loving family members that can provide proper care for the children. Where a child is unable to return to his or her parents or extended family, to connect children under our care with loving foster and adoptive parents with whom they can experience one-on-one affection and close family relationships.
10.To reduce vulnerability by providing support for caretakers and the families of vulnerable children in field such as education, health, family planning.
Our Values
CCREP is guided by the principles of:
- Respect
- Integrity
- Equity
- Cultural diversity
- Partnership
- Self determination
- Innovation
- Non discrimination
- Evangelism
- Commitment
Beneficiaries
We are committed to and shall continue helping the following target groups:
- Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
- Disabled and Chronically Ill Children
- Trafficked and Displaced Children
- Educationally Disenfranchised Children
- Families and Communities.
How we work
CCREP implements projects directly and indirectly through our local partners and beneficiaries. We have a bottom up approach to partnership and we see our partners as equal. Together we strive to improve the lives of children and communities we serve and we are open to learn from each other.
We use a rigorous approach to select partners who share our same ethos, with an active nature of nurturing them. We respect their capabilities and respond to their needs.
Challenges
CCREP faces challenges of supporting children and adults and it is even worse with the inflation hitting Uganda today, the children are often lacking what to feed on, education, clothes, beddings, shelter and medical care. These children are abandoned because their parents /guardians cannot afford the basic needs, therefore run away from responsibilities. Other children are born orphans for instance a child is born and a mother dies, then when the father marries other women, they are subjected to domestic violence and torture. Other children are abandoned by their parents with no one to help. Such Children end up on street on absolutely nothing. The country has not done much for such children; it's only the organizations that are trying to protect them and provide basic needs in an institutionalized setting. Apart from those children who need a conducive environment for them to play and enjoy all their rights like their counter parts.CCREP has the compassion to help such disadvantaged children/community but as a voluntary initiative we are limited with resources. Our plight is to reach out to many children but we can't do this in isolation without external support.