Child Protection Uganda Project #14034

Stopping child abandonment in Uganda

by Kids Club Kampala

Project Report | Jan 30, 2018
A Family For Christmas!

By Olivia Barker | UK Director

Our Ewafe project provides children who have been abandoned with a safe place to live, but the long term aim of this project is to reunite abandoned children with families.

Imagine spending Christmas without your family. Imagine losing contact with your family and not knowing where they are, whether they miss you, do they love you or wonder where you are? This is reality for many children and young people in Uganda and we want to change that.

We believe that every child’s story should be listened to and investigated. Once a child is rescued many institutions make no effort to search for answers to a child’s story and aim to keep these children in long term institutionalised care. We believe that this is wrong and we know that long term institutionalisation can have detrimental effects on a child’s development and well-being. Children need to live in families and should not be separated from them unnecessarily when it is possible for them to go home and for the whole family to be supported as a unit.

This year our Ewafe project has so far reintegrated 16 children back with their families. This means that families that were once separated due to poverty and desperation are now reunited and supported towards a bright future. Our social workers work tirelessly to try to search for and find families for children and this year, just in time for Christmas 7 children will be going home to families for good. These children will be receiving their best Christmas present ever, their own family back together again.

We love to see children leaving our emergency care home and going back to loving families. Family care is the best possible environment for a child and it’s so important that children of all ages have a loving family to rely on.

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Nov 6, 2017
New Kitchen for the Ewafe project!

By Olivia Barker | UK Director

Aug 8, 2017
Keeping Children Safe: The Ewafe Project

By Olivia Barker | Director

Kids Club Kampala is bringing hope and love to vulnerable children in the slum communities of Kampala, Uganda. Whilst working with these communities for over 10 years, our local staff and volunteers discovered that many children were coming and telling us that they had nowhere to go, had become abandoned or had run away from abusive situations. To respond to this problem, we started the Ewafe Project in summer 2013.

Ewafe means ‘Where we belong.’ Kids Club Kampala aims to ensure that children who have been abandoned are well cared for and have a safe place to go, and ultimately end up within a loving family.

What does the Ewafe project do?

It prevents: Our staff and volunteers work within communities to respond to needs, to help prevent family break-up, and to reduce poverty. Whether that be through supporting a mother to gain a sustainable income, supporting a child’s education or preventing a family from becoming homeless.

It rescues: The Ewafe project Home provides an emergency place for a child to stay when they have become abandoned. Children receive shelter, clothing, medical care, food and support.

It rehabilitates: We provide counselling, support and guidance to children who have gone through the trauma of separation from their family or who have encountered abuse.

It reintegrates: All children have the right to grow up in a loving family. Our social workers trace children’s family members and works towards family reunification. We aim to place children back within a safe and loving home wherever this is possible. If this is not possible, we look for foster families to provide a loving family for that child.

It supports: The Ewafe project continues to support the child and their family towards a successful future. Whether that be through sponsoring their education or providing food and clothing.

Over the past year the Ewafe project has successfully reintegrated 8 children back with their families and has helped to prevent family separation and breakdown for many more. And just this week we successfully reunited another abandoned child back with her family! We love to see children going back home to loving families and our aim is to successfully trace, reunite and support more children and their families.

However, it is not always an easy process. Finding out where relatives are living is not always straightforward, and travelling to search for families can be costly. We need your help. Please donate and help us make a big difference.

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