Our Strategy 2025–2029
We are proud to introduce our Strategic Plan 2025–2029, which reflects our commitment to protecting and empowering street-connected, displaced, and refugee children, young people, and women across Uganda.
Today, children and young people face many overlapping challenges—poverty, family breakdown, violence, displacement, limited access to health services, and the effects of climate change. These pressures put their safety, learning, health, and futures at risk and require approaches that go beyond temporary solutions.
With over 20 years of experience rescuing, rehabilitating, and reintegrating more than 2,000 children and young people, the strategy highlights strengthening child protection systems, supporting gender-transformative parenting, and providing holistic rehabilitation and reintegration.
It also focuses on education and lifelong learning, covering early childhood care, education and development and play-based learning, primary, secondary, tertiary, accelerated learning, and vocational training. The plan further addresses access to health services, including sexual, reproductive, and mental health, household economic strengthening, and engagement in climate adaptation and risk reduction.
This Strategic Plan sets out a direction for ensuring that vulnerable children, young people, and women survive, recover, learn, and thrive in both humanitarian and development contexts.
What We Have Learnt
Over the past two decades, SASCU has successfully rescued, rehabilitated and reintegrated over 2,000 children and young people in Uganda. This experience has generated valuable lessons that offer a compelling rationale for expanding SASCU's work to reach more vulnerable populations. These lessons include the following:
Tackling Root Causes to Create Sustained Change
SASCU's experience has shown that poverty, family breakdown, violence, and social exclusion are underlying drivers that push children and young people onto the streets and deepen the vulnerability of women. Addressing these root causes is essential for creating sustained change, particularly in improving child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and maternal mental health. By prioritizing family support programs that address these challenges, and providing holistic rehabilitation, including education, healthcare (including sexual and reproductive health including mental health), psychosocial support, and market-relevant skills training, SASCU empowers children, young people, and women to rebuild their lives with dignity and break cycles of vulnerability.
Ensuring Access to Comprehensive Health Services
Access to quality, comprehensive, age and gender-appropriate health services emerged as a critical pillar for lasting reintegration and well-being. Street connected and vulnerable children, young people, and women need continuous access to sexual, reproductive, and mental health services as part of holistic care. This access not only addresses immediate health concerns but also equips them to make informed decisions about their lives and bodies, supporting their overall development and resilience.
Family Reunification as a Pathway to Stability and Well-being
While temporary shelters provide immediate protection, SASCU's work underscores that family reunification, where possible, offers children and young people stability, love, identity, and a nurturing environment for long-term well-being. Families are often best positioned to support continued access to health services and education, fostering environments where children and young people can grow safely and develop essential life skills.
Community Engagement for Effective Reintegration and Resilience Building
The effective reintegration of street-connected, displaced, or refugee children and young people requires the active involvement of communities to which they return. SASCU's work has demonstrated that community participation ensures culturally appropriate, locally owned, and sustainable solutions, fostering acceptance and creating support systems that enable reintegrated individuals to thrive. Moreover, engaged communities are better positioned to support inclusive adaptation and risk reduction initiatives that address specific vulnerabilities of children, young people, and women, enhancing preparedness for climate change and safeguarding them from its adverse effects.
Enhancing Participation in Climate Adaptation and Risk Reduction
As climate change increasingly threatens the well-being of vulnerable populations, it is critical to enhance the participation of street connected and vulnerable children, young people, and women in climate adaptation and risk reduction initiatives. SASCU's community-based approach has shown that when these groups are actively engaged in climate resilience efforts, they become agents of change, building resilience within themselves and their communities while addressing the specific vulnerabilities they face.
Flexible, Dignified Pathways for Those Without Families
In some cases, family reunification is not possible due to rejection, disability, conflict with the law, or other social challenges such as incest. For these children, young people, and women, the street often feels like the only home they know. SASCU's experience highlights the need for flexible, longer-term preparation for dignified, independent living. This includes continued access to healthcare (Sexual and reproductive health including mental health), education, life skills, and psychosocial support, ensuring that even the most vulnerable can transition into adulthood with hope, resilience, and the means to lead fulfilling lives.
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).
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