UGANDA
Uganda is home to over 1 million orphaned children who have lost their parents to aids, disease, wars and refugee displacement. For many of these children, their options are to live with an elderly grandmother with no resources to provide care or fend for themselves on the streets. Many children do not complete their schooling nor have the competencies needed to do well in life. Only 1 in 4 children who starts primary school makes it to secondary school. Less than half (40 per cent) of students are literate at the end of primary school, causing them to be vulnerable to trafficking, child labor or turn to crime to survive. Your support for an orphan or vulnerable child at one of our Uganda homes, will provide the love, resources and security for them to be on the path to having a successful future and providing care back to the community.
BUTIKI CHILDREN’S HOME
Sponsorship Programs Available: Take a Child Off the Street-Keep a Child Off the Street-Home Sponsorship
Orphan's Lifeline began supporting this home in 2004 when it was brought to our attention that the caretakers and orphans were in dire need of support. While they were living in a fairly new structure, provided by another US organization that provided shelter only, they had no electricity, access to water or secure food source. Many of the children were in need of medical attention and were thin from malnutrition. We immediately began aid, focusing on their basic critical needs, food, water, medicine, education and spiritual wellbeing. In 2011 Orphan’s Lifeline was able to move the children to a new home that has now progressed into a vibrant healthy place for the children to grow, learn and develop into productive, fulfilled and successful individuals.
FRESHFIRE CHILDREN’S HOME
Orphan's Lifeline began sponsoring this home in 2004 when a local Christian man and his wife saw the need to help the orphan children in the area. In the beginning, the children were living in a dilapidated hut without access to water or basic necessities. Many of the children were sleeping in the homes of caregivers, because there was not enough room for all of them to stay at the orphanage. All of the children were thin and suffering from malnourishment, worms or other medical problems. Soon after we began to help, the home director was given 10 acres of land, and with the help of Orphan's Lifeline a new building was built for the kids. This was a great blessing as the land gave them the opportunity to learn the agricultural trade by growing their own food along with raising chickens, pigs, goats and a cow for their own drinking milk. With the help of Orphan's Lifeline a second home called Life of Favor Children's Home was established on this same piece of land which has been able to save even more hopeless orphaned children from the area.
LIFE OF FAVOR CHILDREN’S HOME
Sponsorship Programs Available: Take a Child Off the Street-Keep a Child Off the Street-Home Sponsorship.
Orphan’s Lifeline has been providing support for this home since its inception in 2006 when the Directors of Fresh Fire Home were ready to expand to help more orphans. Most of the children brought in were orphaned when their parents passed away due to the HIV/AIDS virus. Some of the children had been taken in by relatives who eventually also died from the same virus. This left many of these children to survive on their own, leaving the older ones to try to care for their younger siblings until they were rescued by Life of Favor. Many of the children were in very poor physical condition and severely malnourished. Today, Life of Favor Home is a thriving, healthy home where the children gain quality education, participate in spiritual activities and work with farming projects.
NANTALE CHILDREN’S HOME
Sponsorship Programs Available: Take a Child Off the Street-Keep a Child Off the Street-Home Sponsorship
Orphan’s Lifeline has been supporting this home since 2007 when it was brought to our attend that Christine Nantale, an elderly woman out in the village was trying to care for babies and children left at the nearby dump and on her doorstep. Christine had no resources other than the meager help from her church family. In 2009 Christine passed away, and the care of the children were taken over by a loving, professional, Christian woman who organized the program into a thriving, safe, healthy home on property near Kampala. All of the children at Nantale home are full orphans, with no viable relatives and they live here full time. The home also has 5 transitional beds for children brought in off the streets by authorities. These children stay at the home until resettlement happens or they transition to full time residents at Nantale. The children attend private school, worship at a nearby church and enjoy their yard complete with vegetables that they tend to.
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