MAPODE is a legally registered multi-dimensional Youth-at-Risk focused, Community-based Non Governmental Organization (NGO). It was registered in Zambia in Nov. 1997 and in Uganda in June, 1998 to counter the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in both Zambia and Uganda.

MAPODE is derived from its initiator’s 6 years of experience working and interacting with over 4,000 adults , children, and prostitutes which convinced her beyond doubt that:

1. The majority of children, young girls and women who were parading their bodies on the ‘night street market’ were there, not because they entered street prostitution as the the chosen ‘career’ of their lives, but because they had found no alternative for life’s sustenance and livelihood;

2. Whereas rehabilitation efforts were necessary to assist those children, young girls, and women willing to join alternative ventures to prostitution. As a result, the level of human, physical, psychological, spiritual, moral suffering and degradation gone through by victims of prostitution, in many ways go beyond rehabilitation and restoration efforts; and

3. What was urgently needed were vigorous Prevention and Protection measures to deter this human destruction.