WHAT WE DO
RESCUING HOMELESS CHILDREN: A Lifeline of Hope
SASCU’s team of social workers hits the streets of Kampala and surrounding towns every Tuesday and Thursdays, meeting with the hundreds of children who sleep in gutters, bathe in polluted streams and beg and work on the street for food.
The purpose is to connect with homeless children and let them know that SASCU is a viable -and much improved- alternative to living in the streets.
One way our social workers meet homeless children is through street and community outreaches and their connections with shopkeepers, taxi and bus drivers and older homeless people known as street uncles: “informants” who update them when a child has just arrived in the streets. The sooner we can identify and talk to a child who recently arrived in the streets, the greater the chance that child can be rescued from the physical and emotional suffering of life in the streets and returned to a normal childhood.
A major part of a street social worker’s job is to build trust and an atmosphere of understanding with the children, many of whom have come from places where the adults in their lives abused their trust and hurt them. They do this by playing games, telling stories and taking the children places where they can wash their clothes and themselves.
Also, because SASCU has been helping street children for years, the SASCU Social workers have a lot of credibility there, and the children hear from others that they are their friends, and this makes it easy for us to have homeless children rescued.
REHABILITATION OF RESCUED CHILDREN
SASCU operates an approved Children’s Home at Providence Farm in Luwero Districts where it provides a safe and loving home, nutritious meals, medical care and counselling and spiritual discipleship to rescued homeless children. SASCU’s trained caregivers make sure that each child rescued from the streets is given love and attention as well as important life skills, and other relevant support needed, restoring hope to their lives.
Many children arrive at SASCU malnourished from living on the streets. The children receive three healthy meals a day. With good, nutritious food, they quickly become healthy and active. Medical care is an important service that SASCU provides to the children. SASCU has a full-time nurse who cares for all the children’s medical needs, from bandaging scrapes and bruises to treating more serious illnesses like malaria, Bacterial infections, TB and other health complications. She gives weekly health lessons to the children on topics such as personal hygiene, and nutrition.
Recreational programs are provided to help rescued children and to overcome trauma and other negative past experiences. While the rehabilitation process is ongoing, home tracing is conducted to aid reunification and reintegration of children with their families and communities. SASCU’s Rehabilitation takes between a period of three (3) to six (6) months depending on the needs of a particular child. It also depends on the progress registered in tracing the child’s home or extended family.
There’s a real family atmosphere at SASCU, with the older children taking care of the younger ones. SASCU caregivers have created a cheerful, happy place that warmly welcomes children who have faced many hardships in their lives.
REUNIFICATION & REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN
SASCU is not an orphanage – it is SASCU’s belief that the best place for a child to grow up is in a safe and loving family and not in an institution. We understand the vital role that families play in a child’s life, and we actively work to rebuild those precious bonds. We believe that every child deserves to grow up in a home filled with love and stability.
Our efforts focus on creating an environment where children can not only feel safe but also experience the warmth of family connections and that is why Reunification isn’t just a goal at SASCU, but our unwavering commitment.
THE HOPE AGAIN PROJECT
Transforming Lives
The Hope Again project is a tailored 6-months mindset change and skills training program that is designed to help break the cycle of poverty among vulnerable girls and teen mothers who are at the risky of Sexual Exploitation and abuse. This is open for girls rescued from sexual exploitation and abuse and young mothers who dropped out of school due to forced marriage and unwanted pregnancy.
Through the Hope Again Project, Save Street Children Uganda provides vocational, business and life skills training opportunities aimed at enabling the girls find new purpose in their lives and set up market driven enterprises, and promotes girls’s economic independence through savings, loan groups and cooperatives. Our goal is for every rescued girl to have financial independence and the power to make their own choices. We are committed to changing the story of poverty and unemployment challenges for vulnerable girls and young mothers.
We believe that survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse and teenage pregnancy can flourish if given an opportunity to. Survivors need to be given an opportunity to live up to their full potential.
LEARNING OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS
SASCU recognizes that when children and young people lack quality basic knowledge, skills and tools, they are bound to remain in a vicious cycle of poverty, they will not attain their full potentials and this will in turn affect their own children or families.
At SASCU we strive to promote access to quality formal education as well as skills training for former Street Children, refugee children, other vulnerable children and young people through Elementary, High School, College and University as well as tertiary education.
SASCU supports vulnerable and marginalized children not only to enroll but to stay in school. We rollout interventions that have been proven to promote learning both in school and community settings. Our interventions ensure children are adequately supported to read and write, and that schools, families and communities create stimulating, safe, happy and child friendly learning and even pre learning environments. We ensure appropriate teaching and learning materials are in place for use in schools, homes and other relevant settings and also ensure extracurricular learning opportunities and relevant infrastructure are available.
CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFE GUARDING
Protecting vulnerable children from all forms of violence in all settings is at the heart of SASCU’s interventions and is part of the safeguarding process that ensures that children’s welfare and growth are enhanced. Abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation are serious child rights violations that are continually affecting thousands of children in Uganda. Street Children and unaccompanied or separated refugee children encounter violence, sexual abuse, and child labor arising from peers, communities, security agencies and local authorities.
SASCU aspires to promote the protection of vulnerable children as underscored by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and other relevant human rights and humanitarian instruments. At SASCU we focus on supporting families and community structures to provide safeguarding mechanisms to ensure that children are protected from abuse, neglect, violence and sexual exploitation. We also ensure that children at risk of suffering abuse and those that have already suffered abuse are rescued and provided safe spaces where they can thrive.
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD
At SASCU we believe that Everyone has the right to provide for themselves and their families, increase their well-being, and participate in developing the social, economic situation of their societies as equal citizens.
SASCU provides pathways for deprived and at – risk both young women and men to acquire relevant market competitive knowledge, skills and opportunities that enable them obtain decent gainful employment and other life opportunities. Our Interventions include vocational training, saving groups and business cooperatives for youth and women, entrepreneurship skills enhancement, apprenticeships and life skills training.
Mentorship, on-the-job placements, job-seeking support and business start-up support form the core of the service portfolio that we have designed to smoothen the transition from education to working life.
We also work for food security, particularly by supporting sustainable smallholder agriculture that enables families to fulfil their own needs and deliver their surplus to the market in exchange for a decent income.
We focus on both families of resettled children and families at risk of losing their children to the street.
Food
Bring Hope To A Child For Just $2 A Day
For only $2 a day—or $60 a month—you can transform a child’s life by providing three daily meals filled with nourishment and love. For a vulnerable child, these meals are more than food—they are a lifeline of hope, restoring health, and offering the chance to dream again.
Your support ensures that no child faces hunger or despair alone. Together, we can make every meal a moment of hope and possibility.
Donate now and bring hope to the table.
SCHOLASTIC SUPPLIES
Equip a Student, Empower a Future
For just $30, you can supply a student with essential scholastic materials for an entire semester. These supplies represent more than pens and books—they are the building blocks of education, the key to unlocking opportunities, and a beacon of hope for a vulnerable child. Your one-time gift has the power to open doors to a brighter future, inspire dreams, and transform lives. Partner with us today and give a child the tools they need to succeed and thrive.
MEDICAL
Keep A Child Healthy For Just $20 A Month
Health is the foundation for a child’s ability to thrive, dream, and succeed. With a monthly donation of just $20, you can ensure a child has access to essential medical care and health support. From routine check-ups to urgent treatments, your generosity provides the care they need to grow strong and resilient.
Together, we can protect vulnerable children from preventable illnesses and give them the chance to pursue a brighter future.
Make a $20 monthly donation today and be a lifeline of health and hope!
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Save Street Children Uganda (SASCU) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that is legally registered and operating in Uganda to promote and protect the rights of street children, unaccompanied or separated refugee children and other vulnerable children, young people and women in Uganda (REG NO S.5914/8183). In united states, SASCU is a 501(C)(3) non-profit, tax exempt public charity (EIN 45-2822269).
SAVE STREET CHILDREN UGANDA (SASCU) BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS | |
| ACCOUNT HOLDER’S NAME | SAVE THE STREET CHILDREN INTL |
| MAILING ADDRESS | 17727 1 /2 CHATSWORTH ST STE 250 GRANADA HILLS CA 91344-5624 L |
| BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS | 8313605837 |
| ROUTING NUMBERS: | Direct deposits &Electronic payments 121042882 Domestic Wire Transfers 121000248 |
| BANK NAME | WELLSFARGO BANK |
| BANK BRANCH NAME | TOPANGA CANYON, CA |