We help orphans and most vulnerable children to access education literacy, numeracy and other essential life skills through empowering their caretakers to fend for their children. Our focus is that when children are able read and write, they can better advocate for their rights and help provide for their families. We also foster the wellbeing of children in the families that we work with. We operate 3 Orphanage Children Education Centers for primary children in Mityana, Ibanda and Apac that educate orphans and vulnerable children in formal education. We provide psychosocial support and other services to these children; we use sports activities as a tool for psycho-social support which makes these children to become more resilient. The joy and excitement from involvement of sports enables them to shed off the mental burdens and stress.

Also, according to the World Bank, youths aged between 15 and 30 make up 80% of Uganda’s unemployed and over 70% of the youth are not formally employed. We believe that technical/vocational education is a key to survival and should be given to everyone in need of skills including those who cannot afford to go to school especially women and girls in order to create for them employable skills and competencies relevant in the labour market for increasing their productivity. Our education program also supports out of school youth to acquire vocational, literacy and other life skills to make them ready for economic opportunities on top of enabling them make good judgments, protect themselves, manage their emotions and communicate their ideas. We allow youth to choose a trade of their choice depending on their preference, relevance, quality, access, ability and market availability.

IMPACT

To date, 1290 orphans and vulnerable children have been supported to remain in school where they received psychosocial support and health services to make them more resilient.

32 youth have been supported to acquire vocational skills