Brian Lobene is the fifth in a family of five children. His refugee parents are too poor to pay for nutritious food for their five children, let alone school fees. Brian’s hungry stomach is bloated, the telltale sign of malnutrition in children. His parents move from place to place around Kampala begging for employment, but it is nearly impossible for uneducated refugees to find a good one. Please sponsor him, so he can go to boarding school, have regular nutritious meals, and escape a lifetime of poverty… Read More
8-14 Year Olds Needing Sponsors
You can sponsor a South Sudanese refugee attending a day school in Uganda for only 15 EURO/$20 per month. Or for 26 EURO/$35 per month, you can keep a war orphan or other potentially homeless refugee child off the streets and in school by sending the child to boarding school. Please view our frequently asked questions at the bottom of our Sponsor a Child page for more on information on sponsoring a child from South Sudan living in Uganda.
Christine Anyero Has Found a Sponsor!
Christine’s parents are South Sudanese refugees who fled to Uganda in 1997 to escape the civil war. The family settled in Nakawa Acholi, a slum in the outskirts of Kampala. Although, Christine, and her six siblings have been living with their parents, it was their aunt who was the family breadwinner until her death in May 2011. As largely uneducated refugees, both of her parents have had a hard time finding descent work. Right now, her elderly and frail father… Read More
Provide Hope to a Hungry & Homeless Child
When Annet’s father died in a LRA attacked in 2002, her mother supported her 10 children selling local breweries and bananas from land a kind Ugandan let them use. This good Samaritan died last year, however, and the family could no longer harvest and sell bananas. On March 30, they were evicted from the home they had been living in since 1997 because they had not paid rent in several months. Annet and her siblings are no longer attending school because… Read More
Khasfa Achan Has Found a Sponsor!
Khasfa Achan is a partial orphan whose father died when she was a toddler. When her young mother married a second husband, she sent Khasfa to live with her grandparents. Her grandparents cannot afford to pay the school fees for all of their own children still living at home let alone their grandchild. Her grandfather is barely able to put food on the table working on and off as a carpenter. Khasfa is a very good student, loves science, and has so much potential… Read More
Margaret Nalunga Achan Has Found a Sponsor!
Sudan’s long civil war left Margaret an orphan and a refugee. After both of her parents died, she and her three sisters went to live with her 77-year-old grandmother in a slum outside of Kampala, Uganda. Their grandmother, however, was too old and too poor to care for them. A family friend, Mama Rosa, has temporarily let Margaret and her three sisters move in with her and her own three children. Mama Rosa is a single mother who lost contact with her husband during the war… Read More
