Objective: Stimulate initiatives for URCS youth, volunteer and membership development and management for increased self-reliance.

The Youth, Volunteer Management and Membership Department falls under the Programs and Projects docket in the 2011-2015 Strategic Plan.

In the five years, more initiatives towards youth, volunteer development as well as membership expansion, management, retention, facilitation and motivation shall be emphasised.

Particular interest will be placed on raising both the numbers and profile of volunteers and members further to attract and retain more professionals and other categories of persons that may bring additional resources to the Society. Follow up activities for trained, retained and motivated volunteers and active members shall be critical in this.

Expected to be garned is more quality service and commitment of volunteers and members. Some of the key tasks for this department include:

• Mobilise, recruit, develop and retail youth as the most active volunteer force to respond to their vulnerabilities and needs of other vulnerable people in the community.
• Mobilise, recruit and expand a professional volinteer membership alongise a strengthened wider volunteer force for the Society.
• Develop and implement systems to raise quality of membership for improved productivity and self-sustenance.

Departmental goal

To strengthen, develop and sustain programmes for community development to reduce common vulnerabilities in communities

Objectives

1. To empower communities for self-reliance and self-sustenance in 25 targeted branches by the end of 2015
2. To strengthen community development initiatives to improve the socio-economic status of vulnerable groups of people in communities of 25 targeted branches by the end of 2015
3. Improve the quality of life of the people in the Lake Victoria basin, particularly for the most vulnerable, through the development of comprehensive programmes addressing the poverty related areas of health care, disaster preparedness, risk reduction and self reliance

Beneficiaries

1. Pastoral communities
2. Fishing communities
3. Communities affected by civil conflict
4. People with disabilities
5. Minority/discriminated persons
6. Women and children

Major components

1. Capacity building for community groups
2. Lake Victoria Programme
3. Global partnerships
4. Psychosocial support and rehabilitation
5. Community empowerment, Peace, and Conflict management

We welcome you all to our re-designed website. The Uganda Red Cross Society is committed to sharing information about its activities, programmes and interventions with you because we believe you are a key stakeholder.

With advancement in information, communication and technology, multimedia and web based communications have become impossible to leave without.  

Through our website, we shall endeavor to keep you posted on current news, reports and policies. Our photo gallery has been enhanced with various photographs depicting URCS in action. Further more, the archive section on the website has been revamped as well in that if the information you need is not in the latest news section, you will find it under archieve.

We shall continue being Uganda’s leading humanitarian agency in saving lives, supporting livelihoods and promoting human dignity among the most vulnerable.

The Red Cross therefore appeals to all our readers and well wishers to donate in kind or cash to enable us fulfill our mission and vision. You can visit our section on Donation for details on how and where to donate.

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I hope you will find the Red Cross website resourceful and relevant.

Enjoy

Michael Richard Nataka (Mr)

The Uganda Red Cross Society is mandated by the Constitution with the task of working with the Ugandan Government to alleviate the suffering of Uganda’s most vulnerable wherever they maybe. This is done through the Departments and Units of:

• Health and Care
• Disaster Management
• Dissemination and International Humanitarian Law
• Youth, Membership and Volunteer Management
• Community Development
• Communication, Public Relations and ICT
• Organisational Development
• Estates
• Finance and Accounts
• Audit
• Logistics
• Human Resource and Administration