At the peak of COVID-19, Nassanga Shadiah was providing regular voluntary awareness and medical support for families affected by chronic diseases and rear illnesses with much focus on children. This work was done voluntarily together with her friends. In 2022, she met Habitation for Empowerment Network to support her in building an organization to meaningfully support sickle cell patients most especially children in the slums of the country. Through the Strategic-Technical Support, we trained her in organization management and Malaika Children Initiative (MCI) was registered as a local Community Based Organization. MCI works closely in collaboration with other CBOs working within the same priority sectors.

The Initiative

Nassanga Shadiah is Founder and CEO of Malaika Children Initiative She is a sickle cell warrior, who is an entrepreneur, innovator and a change leader and Uganda’s Youth Ambassador for World Summit Awards. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems and Technology from Makerere University in Uganda.

Shadiah is the innovator of eMuN mobile application that helps sickle cell patients attain critical medical care with ease. Through the app, the sickle cell warriors can access medical advice and also give feedback to doctors about the progress of their health.

She is also an advocate of zero stigma and awareness rising for families living with sickle cell disease. She intends to play a leading role in fighting for the rights of paediatrics especially their ability to access medical care. She intends to set up different paediatric centers in the country to manage the young children with chronic conditions to reduce on infant mortality rate. Through using her experiences with medical practitioners, Shadiah is revolutionizing the health sector in Uganda by ensuring adoption of an I.T based health care solution systems.

We have pooled over 1,000 startup organizations (NGOs, CBOs & FBOs) needing support in learning new skills in Organization Management and Development; Grants and proposal writing; Financial Management; Communication and Social Media; and Organization Sustainability. We conduct monthly trainings to gear these organizations towards finding meaningful partnerships, networks and funding to their organizations.

Our future Goal:

We are developing the Raise Funds – Mobile App that will provide timely information, documentation, funding opportunities, networks, partnerships, among others. The Mobile App will include all the procedures of starting an organization, registration, program /project development and implementation. The App will have all funding opportunities and fundraising ideas/platforms.

We seek your partnership and financial support amounting to $49,892 annually for training 2,000 teenage mothers through the purchase of equipment to create unique products. We hope you’ll help us out by making a generous gift as you can. Even $5, $10, $20, $50 or $100 can be lifechanging to the lives of these girls and their children. Become our weekly and monthly donor. To make this happen, Just Click here – DONATE

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