Sponsorship Scheme

We identify children in need through local church leaders, community leaders and any other person who speaks up for a vulnerable child. We help children regardless of race, religion or gender. Children are often abandoned, orphaned or from child-headed households.

Once you sign up to sponsor one of our children:

1. You enter into a unique relationship with that child. Only one sponsor will support a child.

2. We will make contact with you to discuss your child sponsorship, details of the scheme and your financial support.

3. Your financial support has immediate effect. Our experienced staff know each child by name, have assessed their needs and are familiar with their individual context. Every family is different and we work with each child according to their needs.

For each child we provide:

• Food
• Medical care
• Education, full school fees, uniforms, scholastic materials
• Access to clean water – where needed we build community water tanks or boreholes
• Shelter – where needed we build or renovate housing and latrines
• Parental care for children living in child-headed families
• Emotional support and counselling
• Regular visits and monitoring
• Fellowship with other sponsored children through our centre days, where visiting speakers are invited to come and share different areas of life to inspire and help children grow physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally and economically strong.
• Life skills and spiritual guidance through holiday camps and seminars
• Micro finance projects for families and communities

4. You will be able to build a relationship with your sponsored child. We will give you regular updates on the development of your child and we encourage our children to write letters which we will send to you along with photographs. You have the opportunity to write and make regular contact with your child, pray for them and if you would like you have the opportunity to visit and meet them, you can. You will get to know their personality, learn about the context and community and share in their stories and development.

5. You will be part of a community of sponsors who have joined hands to bring lasting change to communities of Uganda by empowering our children to break free from the poverty spiral, to make for themselves a better future and make lasting impact on the communities around them.

In addition we support the wider communities of our children with larger projects. We encourage community work. We encourage community participation in some of our activities especially when building houses, boreholes, Bible studies, Fellowships and others.

All children under our support go to schools and return to their homes during the holidays. We do monitor them whilst they are at home. Whilst they are at school, teachers and school chaplains help us to monitor them and we also visit them personally once a month. For children whose parents died or went missing and are too young to live on their own, we hire responsible adults, mostly elder-women, who train them from within the home to guide them – they end up becoming mums and big aunties to the children.