Childrens Home and Education Program

In Uganda 35% of the 11.3 million children are vulnerable (that is 3.9 million are vulnerable) due to various factors like poverty, broken homes, single mothers, unplanned births, insurgency, natural calamities and disease, mostly HIV/AIDS. The highest percentage of these are orphans of HIV/AIDS, having lost both parents to the disease.

According to the Child Outreach Jinja Report 1998, it indicates that there are four thousand street children in Jinja District. These children end up on the streets due to numerous reasons, some of which are: mistreatment by step parents, search for jobs/employment, beyond control children, peer influence, and lack of parental guidance.

The LDI Children’s Home was founded in 1995 for the children who came into our care as a result of the war in Rwanda. Additional children have since arrived, having become orphans in Uganda. Initially the children were welcomed into private homes and became an extended family. The vision has expanded to the first foster home in the rural area of Jinja District which opened in January 2003. The children’s home has space for twenty-six residents, with twenty “out residents”. 

These children need multiple resources to help them gain self esteem and the feeling of being secure. Counseling is available as well as the day centre, as a safe place for them to come. Here, they will be provided with health care, education, and the means for their day to day life.  Older clients are encouraged to nurture and love these children. Therefore, the goal of the Children’s Project is to secure a bright future for these disadvantaged and orphaned children by offering physical, psychological, educational and spiritual care through Livelihood Development International.

Specific Objectives for these disadvantaged and orphaned children

• Give care and protection to orphans of HIV/AIDS and disadvantaged children through a foster parenting system

• Support and promote good health and hygiene within their immediate environment.

• Encourage children, youth and foster parents to embrace values that promote spiritual growth and moral uprightness.

• Assist these children to acquire education such that they can compete favourably in the developing world. ( See more details below.)

• Work in partnership with local international organizations with a view to soliciting assistance for vulnerable children.

CONCLUSION

Through health care and education with on site training they will be able to develop skills that are enable them to create a livelihood and become self sustaining members of their community.

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