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I am a founder member of Midland links International Ltd. one of the shareholders, promoters, and on the Board of Directors of the company as its Chairman and Managing Director. I am a prominent businessman who has been in business for well over 35 years. I have vast experience in business documentation in enterprise development including but not limited to: - Feasibility study reports -Comprehensive business plans -Financial management systems -strategic plan-Proposal writing -Memorandum and Articles of Associations. I also do community development training in: -community needs assessment -Women in small scale business -Poverty analysis, development theory and communication. My service delivery: (a) To the Private Sector: For the last 35 years of participation as an entrepreneur and business consultant, I have developed and achieved experience, expertise, creativity, innovation skills and approach which tools have assisted me to offer business and financial consulting services to commercial enterprises and business community that seek to improve their viability, performance, and expansion of their operations, their profitability and many of them have improved their profitability and sustainability. The above have been achieved as a result of encouraging my clients to do business documentation and I have been instrumental in making many feasibility studies, business/strategic plans, diagnostic study analysis, and I have assisted a good number of enterprises to get registered. My company has over time developed an outstanding customer care and attraction. This secret depends on the ability to effective communication skills and my vast business experience in customer attraction and retention; enough to prove that the company management has better operational and customer care skills. It is the company's desire to transform its clientele by encouraging them to have business self-discipline, and how to get-self confidence and in fact how to do any thing one may imagine. (b) To the Civil Society A number of community organizations and groups that seek to improve their performance in developmental objectives in order to promote and support their local communities have gained momentum and improved their members' livelihood and life-styles to some degree. (c) International Trade: Apart from offering my services in business, financial and management consultancy and documentation, as a trained import and export agent, I am currently involved in international trade. I am a member of the World Traders' Club of the popularly known Wade World Trade Ltd, the company which is based in the UK; and has been in global import and export training and international trade since 1954 to date. I am offering worldwide import and export agency services on commission basis. My involvement as a professional import and export agent and by being a member of the World Traders' Club, with an opportunity of tens of thousands of worldwide trade leads at my finger tips, manufactures, importers, exporters, distributors and dealers of all sorts of goods, commodities and mercantile are having an advantage to work with me and hence are invited to contact me for any business for prompt connections. Company legal status: Midland Links International Ltd. is a private limited company that got incorporated here in Uganda in 2000. Location: The company is situated and operates from Kampala the capital city of Uganda. Company Mission: "To promote entrepreneurship and international trade through provision of appropriate import and export agency and business consulting services and documentation." Goal: " To provide import and export agency services and to promote and support appropriate business consulting and documentation to micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) in Uganda and abroad in order that they become empowered to realize optimum returns aiding and enhancing their growth, development, stability, profitability and sustainability" Company Philosophy: "The company believes that economic growth and prosperity for all depends on empowered and improved private sector and civil societies alike that vigorously pursue trade, commerce, industrial and agricultural sub-sectors' development and growth through systematic and concerted efforts and commitment of all actors from both local and international communities arena through enhanced and enriched capabilities, management capacities and competitive performance strengthened by training, technical and financial assistance opportunities with enlightened use of information technology." company Objectives: a. To promote and encourage MSMEs to engage in international trade through the company's import and export agency services, b. To promote trade, commerce and industry in Uganda. c. to promote industrialization through technology transfer, international collaboration, cooperation, joint venture partnership and utilization of technical and financial opportunities. d. To up-hold best practices to enhance efficiency and value for money, professionalism and technical performance that will guarantee clients' financial growth, control and sustainability. e. To offer improved service delivery with value for money customer support, motivating corporate, economic and social responsibility in a bid to promote the clients' effectiveness and competitive performance and profitability that shall find and keep the customers with the company without regrets f. To offer training and promote technical assistance and international technology and communication opportunities as a tool for advancement for wider market niche in international trade via Internet. g. To do research in health and business like environment. To guarantee the image and status of the company, fostering growth strengthened service delivery skills and professionalism by utilizing training, financial and technical assistance opportunities offered to the company. i. To seek, concretize partnerships, through networking,collaboration and cooperation with company principals, donors, associates,agents/sub-agents, affiliates and other stakeholders worldwide to enhance wider professional capacity utilization and service delivery. Company Values: > The company believes in pioneering establishment of MSMEs and encourages agricultural production to enable manufacturing and value for money for export. > We believe in working with partners that share a common vision to the company > We value promoting businesses/projects that remove gender and age barriers and create employment opportunities for the youth, women and the girl-child, and better international working relationships with equal participation for women and girls within an equal business opportunities framework. > The company values training and technical assistance as a tool that will develop its potential to offer best and sustainable services to its customers. Partnership sought: the company is seeking partnership with other companies having the same objectives and or interests; for business cooperation, collaboration. The company also seeks advice and technical assistance through which it may attain enhanced growth and development so that it may take its clientèle a step forward. Your contribution and assistance will enhance socio-economic development and emancipation from poverty and the diverse activities that you offer to the company, will promote entrepreneurship among the business community in Uganda who are seeking expansion/improvement performance of their enterprises. By your partnership, the company's performance will as well be polished, and future hazards and crushing will be avoided in time. With partners and donors involvement and contributions, the company will be able to help individuals/groups and enterprises, especially those of the youth and women, perform better and contribute to their growth and development for a better world to live in. LIFE FOR ALL ACTION PLAN -UGANDA(LAAP) This is a summarized five -years Strategic Plan for our Organization- Life for All Action Plan-Uganda (LAAP) Introduction: Life for All Action Plan -Uganda (LAAP) is a voluntary indigenous community based organization (CBO) founded in January 2005 in response to increasing recognition that the needs of children, rates of orphans, widows and widowers as a result of HIV/AIDS have largely been neglected and effects in Kawempe division and Kampala district in general are extensively being felt. This has in effect increased rates of poverty, poor health and deteriorated general well-being of the youth and women and has increased children's vulnerability. To address this need, LAAP brought together experienced professionals and social scientists committed to finding ways to improve the quality of clinical and non-clinical care for children, adolescents,the youth in general, women and the entir3 community in Kawempe Division, in Uganda. The organization through health care services, sensitization welfare and education shall promote opportunities that empower the beneficiaries and other stake holders to identify the avenues for alleviation of poverty, reduction of poor health among the community that will nurture systematic, socio-economic change and that will maintain improved health by accessing good health skills including life styles and life skills, entrepreneurship skills for economic production and development; to help propel and attain full potential through self-help and self-reliance activities. At a more general level, LAAP is an apolitical, nonprofit-making organization, which endeavors to steer the youth and women among the communities of Uganda, and especially of Kawempe Division towards joining hands in pursuit to influencing their own development. To LAAP, age is not an issue, the ultimate goal is to develop the poor by eliminating vulnerability among the orphans, the girl-child, young women especially single mothers, and the youth in general to develop Kawempe division in particular and Uganda in general. LAAP sees development in two ways. First of all, it sees development of the Division in terms of infrastructure development. Secondly, but still related to the first, LAAP would like to see its efforts leading to significant improvement of the socio-economic situation of the youth and women and to liberate the orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) who are entangled with many problems that have been forced on them by HIV/AIDS scourge, poverty and to some certain extent by civil strife which of recent caused havoc to some parts of our country. LAAP also fosters a spirit of togetherness/teamwork/network with experiences which are essential for partnership, and which also strengthen, promote and advance internal and external cooperation and collaboration among partners for programs that enhance development, growth and advancement of all program beneficiaries and that benefit all program actors of any particular partnership that has been created for a particular noble cause. With such cooperation as above, LAAP will fight on to prevent multiplication and further transmission of HIV/AIDS among the youth and the community in general and also to prevent mother -to-child (PMTCT) of HIV. This is to be achieved through encouragement and involvement of the youth/women/community in self-help activities. LAAP will also help educate the youth and women of their leadership opportunities that they are deprived of by traditions, cultures and norms and will cultivate leadership skills and create leadership opportunities through training empowerment within the youth and women. Socio-Economic status of Kawempe: Kawempe Division is one of the five divisions that make up Kampala District in Uganda. Although there are no major established industries in Kawempe, the division has several and continues to see a growth in number of small-scale factories managed by local entrepreneurs. The factories depend on local Ugandan craftsmanship and artisan skills in terms of technology and applications of the machinery and innovations. such innovations have taken place in coffee processing, leather tanning, furniture and wood works, iron/steel fabrications, market vending and shop display, etc.. Located and stretching from Wandegeya 1km from the main city center, to Kagoma at where the Division borders with Wakiso District 10km north of Kampala City. It provides a lucrative trade opportunity for traders who ply between the division and Kampala City to buy and resell merchandise. Therefore, Kawempe is bustling with trade in milk, fruits, foodstuffs, live animals on one hand, and various household and office and constriction materials on the other hand. Health Problem: Most families affected by HIV/AIDS in Kawempe Division like in other districts in Uganda, have lost household head, who initially were the sole breadwinner. As parents get sick, man-hours of work are reduced and the little resources previously saved in whatever form are required for care. Other family members are as well infected and therefore less able to work to generate some income. Due to the continued loss of income generating capacity, the families are more vulnerable to the overall social and economic effects of HIV/AIDS. The families face adverse effects of malnutrition, loss of health care, increased exposure to various diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and other STD and related opportunistic infections, slowed development, premature death and sometimes the risk of suicide. Economic Problems: Though it seems more ideal to get a loan to offset critical needs, care and treatment inclusive, the social and economic demands outweigh possibilities to repay such loans. A conflict often arises with immediate priority of keeping the family member(s) alive. LAAP identified that the families face the following situations which must be addressed if any improvement in the people's lives is to be realized: > Increased expenses in care > Loss of inheritance rights that sometimes come with loss of economic benefits in particular to widows and orphans > Loss of family income >Lack of food >Forced migration as most children now leave with third family and increased demand for children to work; with a large number of children's influx to towns- an unfortunate situation- turning the majority of them into street children. The Burden of Women and Girls: Traditionally, keeping families going is generally weighted on women and girls. This gives extra burden to the already society biased norms on women as being care givers and those that provide physical labor to meet the family's daily food, shelter, clothing and basic hygiene needs. The situation is critical when women themselves are experiencing physical and emotional fatigue. Women are therefore more affected when the family head dies. The death often results to family disintegration. It is therefore the role of the society to take on extra burden of extended families and yet the resources to coup up with the new trend are not available. In most cases, the older siblings are forced to maintain the family members. In search for help, the girls either end up practicing prostitution or end up in early marriages. This is responsible for high rates of teenage pregnancies, abortions and sometimes death. Psychosocial Problems: LAAP is working to help the youth and children overcome psychosocial problems notably: stress, fear, grief, sadness, loss of stability, and loss of security, loss of love and care and loss of self-esteem among others; especially when they have lost one or both of their parents. Founder Members/Board of Directors of LAAP: The organization's founder members are themselves experienced professional health workers with diverse professions in health matters including serving in hospitals, clinics, and other medical training institutions, and business matters. The eight (8) members include an HIV/AIDS Counselor/Health worker, a Physician, a Pharmacist/Lecturer, an Enrolled Nurse, a Clinical Officer, a Dental surgeon, a Laboratory Technician and a Health Worker/Business Consultant. They form the current LAAP Board of Directors. They are seeking for opportunities to contribute to bridge the gap and to fill the vacuum created by the high demand for health, social and economic services to poor and vulnerable members of the community of Kawempe that daily become more apparent. LAAP,through this strategic Plan, will to a certain extent, efficiently address and endeavor to meet the needs of its beneficiaries and other community members of Kawempe Division, once it is fully implemented. The organization has for the above reason, developed its realistic vision, mission, main goals and objectives; and it is its priority to implement and manage the initiative as follows: Vision: "To see a country free of disease, poverty and ignorance in which every person regardless of age, religion, gender, political beliefs, culture or tribe can enjoy his her right of life of dignity." Mission: To work with poor communities including the youth, women, men, the people with disabilities (PWD), other special interest groups and development actors, to eradicate absolute poverty, ignorance and disease especially HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis (IB), and the children's killer diseases
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