About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
''IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO KILL A CHILD''- Uganda's hidden children. Faced with a lack of government and community support,stigma and abuse, many children with disabilities in Uganda are hidden indoors, with few options for specialized care.But now we are working to change this through education and village based services for families in need. Tethered to beds or even trees,Uganda's intellectually disabled children struggle under stigma and a lack of state care. The corrugated iron door unlocks from the outside and pushes open slowly.A girl in a faded dirty dress and bare footed looks up as the unforgiving African sun pierces the room.She doesn't move.Sitting on a torn dirty mat.She is tethered by a length of this cloth, fastened tight around her wrist. Catherine is 12 years old.Small for her age,she even looks younger sitting in dark,hands resting in her lap.For more than half her life she has been locked inside that hut,no bigger than a garden shed. She sleeps on mud floor without a mattress, between sacks of dried cassava with which she shares the store room roost in baskets and animals. The girls' mother, Sarah Akello, doesn't live here.Akello's husband rejected Catherine because she has a disability. ' Sometimes when she leaves here she gets beaten by residents,she get abused because she is seen as curse. Considered a burden;Stigma is fueled by belief that disability is a curse.And should be killed to please ancestors.