There are several factors that have contributed greatly to the biggest number of street children in Uganda; the civil war, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. Uganda had a civil war that took 23 years and the most affected regions were the northern and eastern parts. Because of this war, many people have been forced to leave their homes join camps and streets.

The Second factor that has largely contributed to the number of street children is HIV/AIDS. In Uganda every family has ever lost someone suffering from AIDS, so many children have been left parentless. Because if this epidemic many children have been forced to leave homes and join street life to look for help.

When they come to the streets they meet so many more problems, looking for shelters, food, clothes and medicine. Because no body cares for them, most of them sleep on the verandas, without covering their bodies, when you look at their bodies; many of them have wounds, jiggers, broken bones and deformed parts of the body since they don’t have any body to look after them. When they get sick of different diseases, they have no medicine to take and eventually they die.  
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The Children

Here are the children both the orphans due to HIV/AIDS or accidents and the 23 year civil war .We ask you to pause before you donate anywhere else and think about what you can do for these kids. If you wish to donate to these orphans, or sponsor a child, please call, write, or email us.  THANK YOU!  Sponsor Now!

Word from Father Bakka

George Mukisa.  It was all very shocking to Ugandans on 6th march 2009, when the story of Mukisa George was revealed to the media, child sacrifice had yet claimed another victim, but this time the victim was lucky, he had not been killed.   When I went to Mulago hospital, the main refferal hospital in Uganda I felt very much challenged by George Mukisa who was there bearing with joy, with a bright future shining in his eyes. It’s the relatives around him that looked sad but not Mukisa.

The challenging attitude of the victim of child sacrifice reminds me of the fact that people with problematic childhood, orphans have dramatically transformed this world. Among them is Moses in the Bible, Romulus and Remus who founded Rome, Alexander Hamilton (1765-1804) one of USA founding fathers, Mohammed founder of Islam, Herbert Hover, the 31st president of USA elected in 1928, Aristotle (384-322) The great Greek philosopher ranked with Plato and Socrates as one of the greatest as well as Marilyn Monroe the great American actress were all orphans.  For this reason starting an orphanage to help children like Mukisa focus on the bright future and forget the grooming past, is what that orphanage is meant to offer.   “One definition of an orphan is important to reflect upon”. When society comes to help such children, they get a bright future and many people are saved. This year 2009, In Uganda we are celebrating 130 years since the first white fathers Simeon Mapeera Lourdel and Brother Amans Delmas stepped on Uganda’s soil (17-Feb-1879). White fathers have special attachment to the orphans and orphanages, and so as we celebrate their coming it’s right and fitting to open an orphanage to protect the suffering children on the streets. Fr. PETER BAKKA