Sports is a great way for children to learn essential life skills that will serve them in later life, such as teamwork and cooperation.

Ugandan children are continuously on the move, they enjoy playing with each other and challenge themselves in various sport competitions.

Footballs, badminton rackets, basketball, hoops, bicycles, roller skates and many others are gifts that our children get excited about.

Social skills for kids are built by playing with other children, where they can form friendships and have fun. However, this is not possible for children living on the street. Imagine the good times kids can share with other kids when you help to provide sports equipment.

With this gift, you are handing over so much fun and excitement which helps the children to overcome their past.

The children in our facility already have sports gear to play with, but somewhat gets always lost or broken and needs to be replaced. With your financial support, you help us to easily replace individual items and also purchase additional ones.

This isn’t just a soccer ball, nets, or basketballs, it is time to play for children every day.  Just maybe, one day you will get to score that goal with the kids team.

Access to education is particularly difficult for underprivileged population groups. In Uganda, these groups include children who grow up in poverty and in particular, the girls are heavily affected because of traditional gender roles. Numerous girls have to help out at home, but also early marriages or teenage pregnancies can stop them from attending school. The poorer the family is, the lower the children’s educational opportunities are. By supporting the parents with their educational costs, we make sure that there are fewer reasons for them to take their child out of school.

Your gifted Education Kit is going to send one child to school for a term.                                                     When you choose this gift, a child receives not only the required school uniform but we also pay for school fees, books, uniforms and a backpack.

With your gift we are able to plant a tree that supplies a family or even an entire community with tasty fruits. The rich Ugandan soil is the perfect nutrient to plant trees that quickly provide a plentiful harvest of avocados, mangos, bananas and many other sorts.

One day you might want to visit and enjoy the shade of your tree that also became a wonderful meeting place for local friends and families.

How does it work:

Our organization works directly with the families in the communities which means that we know their respective needs very well.  In order to distribute your gifts fairly, we keep a list that provides a precise order. Our social workers ask the family in turn which fruit tree they would like to have. Thereafter, we bring and plant the tree together.

Like all over the world, also in Uganda families face the need for self-isolation due to the pandemic. The families that we work with, have no financial reserves with which they could buy food and water in stock for several days. Hunger and thirst force them to break the quarantine, which harms not only themselves but also others.

With this gift you provide one of our families with food, water and firewood for the entire time of the quarantine.

How does it work:

Our social workers work without any intermediaries, which means we know every single need in the community very well. With your support we have the financial means to intervene instantly. Not only do we provide the family with the nutrition they need to survive, but we also observe whether their health status requires further actions.

When was the last time you saw a savings box in your home?  Well, that is because you have a bank account.  As a single woman in a rural community, there is never enough money but as a team, the women are financially strong enough to not only save money but they can even start their own local business together.

Your gift is precious to our rural women who form a group of ten to twenty five individuals. The women will develop as a team and therefore be able to invest in small scale business, acquire loans and assets such as land. The extra income contributes to their economic independence as well as to their children’s food supply, education and health.

How does it work:

As with all of our gift giving, we strive to ensure that it follows a fair process. Our social workers work without middle men, which means we know every single need very well. Internally we keep a list on which the respective gift order is written down. As soon as you have decided on this gift, our social workers buy and bring the saving box to the women’s group in turn. We regularly check whether our gift is still in good use and if the women are doing their savings regularly. This includes the proper storage of the device as well as the prohibition on opening it before the end of every year.

In Uganda, families rely on their small squares of land in order to produce food and get the most from their small farms.

Your Gift will support families with seeds for fruits and vegetable as well as with hoes and spades. This gift will allow families in rural communities to put food on the table this thanksgiving and every other celebration after.

Finally, the farmers would grow enough crops to feed the entire household and have possible surpluses to sell at the local markets. The extra income contributes to the children’s education and healthcare.

This modest gift will give families everything they need to grow healthy, nutritious food, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables.

How does it work:

As with all of our gift giving, we strive to ensure that it follows a fair process. Our social workers work directly with families and communities, which means we are informed about the local needs. Internally we keep a list on which the respective gift order is written down. As soon as you have decided on this gift, our social worker buys and brings the seeds as well as the tools to the family in turn. We regularly check whether our gift is still in good condition. This includes the proper maintenance of the device, planting of the seeds and harvesting of the yields as well as the prohibition on selling the tools.

Uganda has the youngest population in the world, with 77% of its inhabitants aged under twenty five years. Nearly a quarter of the girls that are aged between fifteen to nineteen years have a baby or are pregnant. Usually, this forces them to drop out of school and leave their parents’ home.  They seek shelter with their grandparents, friends or NGOs that offer help.

With your gift we offer a young mother a six months tailoring training after which she receives a sewing machine as an essential part of the startup kit. This program also includes lunch and daily transport to the training center.  With those professional tools she is able to start her own small business that brings in the money that is needed for her small family. This opportunity is mainly used by girls and women, and not by men.

The course take place twice a year. The groups consist of between fifteen and twenty five students.  Our success rate is 70%.

One day you might want to visit and buy one of her designs.

How does it work:

Our organization works directly with the children and youths in the communities which means that we know their respective needs very well.  In order to distribute your gifts fairly, we keep a list of young mothers that want to be trained in order to be able to start their own business

Our organization does not only run two children’s facilities, but we are also strongly connected with the communities where we work. We regularly see poor access to clean water in rural communities. Women, together with children are forced to fetch water from far away rivers, lakes or even ponds. This contaminated water is responsible for a variety of serious diseases like malaria, dysentery, diarrhea and bilharzia.

The most affected ones are the children whose immune system is not yet strong enough to cope.

With your gift we are able to construct a borehole that supplies the community with clean water.  The children will walk shorter distances to fetch water and therefore have more time for school.

How does it work:

Our organization works directly with the communities, which means that we know their respective needs very well.  In order to distribute your gifts fairly, we keep a list of communities that have no source of clean water. Together with the local leaders of the respective communities, our program officer coordinates the process.