Rising Woman Development Initiative

Every year,there are 5000 babies born with sickle cell disease on Busoga region in Eastern Uganda.

Most of the parents of these babies didn't know before that they are carriers of the disease until they produce a child with sickle cell disease.

We want to target test all relatives of people with sickle cell disease or relatives of known carriers of sickle cell disease,this  will reduce the cases of  carriers of sickle cell disease inter marrying hence putting an end to sickle cell disease.

Target testing of the relatives of people with sickle cell disease or known carriers of the sickle cell disease gene. This will reduce the cases of carriers marrying each other hence putting an end to sickle cell disease.

The solution serves people who want to have families in future to be able to have families with no risk of giving birth to children with sickle cell disease.

We are.Some of our team members are parents of children with sickle cell disease.They see the pain and distress that their children go through and are highly motivated to help other parents  and their not to go through what they are going through.

We have done over 200 test.

We need financial aid to be able to roll out our solution well to the community.

We  need equipment like projectors that can be used to teach people about sickle cell disease when we go for outreaches.

We need training for our medical staff in sickle cell disease to advance their knowledge.

By testing the relatives of people with sickle cell disease and  relatives of known carriers of the sickle cell disease ,we are  testing people who are exposed to the gene,those that could be carriers of the sickle cell disease gene and they do not know, this helps them to know so that they make better choices when deciding to have children.

End stigma of sickle cell disease

Reduce prevalence of children born with sickle cell disease by 15 % next year and over 75% in the next five years.

The number of babies born with sickle cell disease reducing.

Individuals freely talking about being carriers of sickle cell disease and encouraging their prospect partners to test before they have children.

App where we have a database of people with sickle cell disease and carriers of the disease