Through Education, our children (93) have dreams and aspire in changing the trajectory of their own life stories for the better. Our children dream of becoming pilots, mechanics, teachers and presidents. They dream high and aim for the stars. We believe that every child has the right to education and development. One of our goals is therefore to get as many children off the street as we can, and find them sponsors for school. Some of our children go to boarding school while a few go to day school and live with their families.

Day school, one of the ways we empower our children is by educating them so we enroll them in school. Our young and middle kids attend nearby Day schools. Our young children are basically the day scholars. Boarding school, one of the ways we empower our children is by educating them so we enroll them in school. Many of our girls are much safer in boarding schools especially those joining secondary schools. Far Boarding school for the transforming boys, some of our boys go too far boarding schools because we want their transformation to be easy far away from the addictive behaviors they battled while on streets.

Other children join vocational training centers while others have joined university levels.

Education largely constitutes the biggest percentage of our budget since all our children attend private schools/institutions. we emphasis private schools as a result of many of our rescued children spent so much time on the streets as a result they often lose touch and memories on what they studied before due to the drug consumption that they tend to use while on the streets.

We do our best to search for sponsors for all children which isn't an easy and sadly only three of our kids are sponsored and thus we want to continue doing our best so that as children as well can get a chance to be sponsored and finish their education and be who they aspire to be.

SUNSHINE DANCE ELITE

Our children performed in a number of music competitions, we won in some of them and others we took second place. Music continues to be therapeutic to many children as many of them are getting a chance in life as they express their talents for dancing, writing and creating their own music. We have been lucky enough that we create all our music work and continue to grow it every single day. Our joy is to see our children grow musically and wisely as they continue to develop into talented musicians.

The past years we have had many children sit for their final national examinations both ordinary level, advanced level and primary level. Many of our children have performed perfectly fine and wonderful as many of the kids have actually been the best in their schools. We have kids who have graduated highly and won in their schools. We have 93 children in our programs includng those at the shelters, resettled and those from the communities.

Education consumes much of our budget as many children attend different schools and are in different classes. We have all our children in private as we want to give them a quality education. Many of our children have been very unlucky and unable to attend school while on the streets and once we rescue them the plan to get them in school is the next on our tables. Many of our children are in need of sponsors in order to be in school. "Education continues to liberate many of our children."

RE-SETTLEMENT

We believe that every child has the right to a family. Therefore a big part of our work is to get to know the child’s story and work towards resettlement back to the family. Many children leave home due to harsh circumstances at home such as abuse, rejection or because of poverty and the vision of Kampala being the city of opportunities. When they finally get there, they realize street life isn’t as easy as they thought and they have no money to return. We have rescued many children and each year has a huge number compared to the other depending on the problems pushing the children back on the streets.

OUR COVID RELIEF FOOD PACKAGES

''Restoring hope in Christ in times of Hungry''.

 

COVID-19 CRISIS: RELIEF REPORT ON WOMEN AND FAMILIES POST LOCKDOWN

In most communities where women are the largest number of sole care givers for their homes, they have been subjected to the effects of the pandemic that have put them on increased difficulties in copying up with life. We have in the recent past months had a number of reports of mothers thrown out of houses with their children and properties due to failure to meet their rent. This phenomenon has been on the rise since most of these women have not been working due to the lockdown that was instituted by the president to curb the spread of Coronavirus.

Some other women also suffered immense stress because of long confinement at home with their children. Stress to some of them is as a result of loss of work and earnings since government banned certain income generating activities like selling non-food items in markets, congested places where most of them were selling their roasted maize (corn) and yellow bananas among other things.

This coupled with the increased violence meted out to women and their children is mostly affecting their psychological well-being. Cases of violence continue to sky rocket every single day and we have had to intervene into some cases about six of them for the sake of the children.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE?

We have embarked on a number of solutions to help address some of this problems to see that women and children live free. We helped the women clear rent for the next two months as they pick up from the effects of the pandemic. We also rescued eight babies and they are safe with three of the women who help foster them. In our capacity building modules of emancipating and empowering women, we saved two women from violence and we are currently sheltering them at Diane’s house for a couple of months before we have them join independent living. Regarding sanitation, we have emptied more four pit latrines that were at full capacity.

This often requires our attention (One because of the street children run to those pit latrines and secondly for mothers not be evicted from the small rooms that they rent out in the dire areas) We gave food packages to about 70 families during the COVID period as it was tough for many families. This came with a huge responsibility as there were families that still needed help even when a few sectors had been opened up. For the elderly who cannot work at all, we deliver food stuffs to them every end of the month. Many families are still struggling with feeding its people.

Medical care is largely the most costly aspect in our works. We advanced from offering First Aid to having to take as many women as we could to hospitals so that they get proper medical care and attention. This showed a proper understanding of what disease was weakening them.

GRATITUDE

The Bible remains our strongest foundation and we ensure that in every outreach in the different communities, we assure the women with hope by praying together.

Our prayer is that we keep doing these little acts of kindness which can lead the women to bear hope in all what seems to be life threatening situations. We continue to appreciate every single person who supports, prays and shares about our programs.

''Restoring hope in Christ in times of Hungry''.