Help Grow Food For Street Kid's (Orphans)

EDUCATION SUPPORT (street child):

SHARE NGO works with disadvantaged CHILDREN & YOUTH providing them with educational opportunities for which they wouldn't have if not sponsored.All children have the right to learn. SHARE NGO supports children to read, write, count, complete school, and attain skills for sustained success. Our programs work with communities to promote the rights of all children to education - and the importance of on-going parental and caregiver support.

We encourage learning through creative play, showing that street children feel motivated and encouraged, as well as develop a love . Teaching is one of the important tasks of our teachers. Educating street children involves helping them acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes.

To strengthen, encourage this development plan,  we got our first visit from 2 GlobalGiving staff, Chris and Jamie in November 2018, who offered very useful advice, tools for fundraising, to help our grassroots organization to provide much needed education opportunities to these children who are mostly excluded from education due no financial abilities from their orphaned, family backgrounds.

In looking to support educational opportunities for poor children, the guest help write, sent a report direct from field, and initiate a new donor partnership with GlobalGiving Organization in 2018, to strengthen support in the areas of education for underprivileged children, need to pay their teachers well, monthly.

Background

SHARE developed a strong desire to work with street-connected children and youth in Eastern Uganda most effectively after that visit from GlobalGiving in 2018, mostly with those affected as a result of landslides, flood's, in Mbale, providing holistic support through services to address hunger, health needs, resettlement, counselling, access to education and family empowerment.

However, since the attack of COVID-19, our fundraising efforts dropped, very little was coming through and yet the demand was growing by day. Should you visit Mbale City today, you will find hungry children sleeping on the streets in day time, it's very unpleasant sights for us parent's.

Our NGO’s approach to enabling these children to access formal schooling starts with daily street visits by the staff to identify children, build trust and empower them to make their own decisions to leave the street. Once ready, the child is then enrolled in school.

In 2015 started skills development among school dropouts to get vocational training, but we have not got much support for this program, funds to help to provide skills for selfreliance, and equipment for school dropouts (girls are the highest victims of poverty, many get pregnant, left school).

The project- (skills for selfreliance)

For COVID-19 affected teens and youth is designed to start with a needs assessment with current school dropout youth groups and street children, especially young mother's, girls who got pregnant, in the streets, during COVID-19 time, 2020, 2021.

Baseline Survey March 2023.

In March this year 2023. We did a baseline survey with the permission of the local government office, Administrator Mbale. The aim was to understand street child problem, and  their day-to-day challenges and how we could best support them to access quality education.

In the Baseline survey, We conducted focus groups with 50 current and former street-connected children, and consultations with teachers, community members, and district officials. Representatives of local government and head of the Education Department, Teachers to verify findings and use lessons learnt to inform project design.

Findings. Mbale City!

Street children are among the most physically visible of all children, live and work on roads and public squares of cities all over the world. Yet, paradoxically, they are also among the most 'invisible' and therefore hardest children by vital services such as education and healthcare, and are therefore the most difficult to protect.

The phenomenon of street children becoming a huge problem in poor countries like Uganda, demonstrating a breakdown of traditional social security systems.

The main objective of this study was to establish factors in the home environment, in the community and on streets that force children to return on streets after family reintegration.

Purposive sampling procedure was used to select 20 respondents who were street children formerly reintegrated and but later returned to streets.

Data was collected through face to face indepth interviews and analysed thematically. The family factors responsible for failed reintegration include broken families, mistreatment, and poverty, imprisonment of parents and death of parents, drug abuse and alcoholism.

At the community level, factors were proximity to town, community attitudes, peer pressure, hostility from teachers and community leaders.

Street related factors include the allure of freedom, access to adequate food, access to narcotics and money.

The study concludes that reintegration programmes adopt a simplistic approach that does not take into account the intricacies and realities of each individual child.

The study recommends that integration programmes need to take a holistic approach that targets the ecological setting of each child, taking into account the unique circumstances for each child.

SHARE Passionate Appeals.

Come work with us!

To help build a more classes, and a home for Needy street kids with an opportunity of working with amazing local staff and volunteers!

Hammerslag School was started here after realizing an increasing number of rural orphaned, and disadvantaged children, street kids running from their slum homes after failing to establish themselves, as a means of providing basic learning, education opportunities for the disadvantaged children. In Teso those fatherless, homeless children are called (ikok) meaning termites, I do not truly understand the connotation and purpose of this naming, all I know it's degrading to a child, it's an abuse.

Child sponsorships!

No commitments have been made in that respect. With little or donation's coming for this purpose. We continue to work so hard every day after day to see these kids through in order for them to have a bright future leading them to be valuable citizens of the nation by offering an opportunity to having a good education and basic needs to keep them moving with existing conditions.

In our fundraising page for the street orphaned children, we normally get $ 20 a month or never for street children support. You can check with our page or global Giving to prove this facts. We have 100 children who need such support, we are left in a dialema. These children are there, no body cares, majority get into crime, drugs, and end up dying of cold or knocked by speeding cars at night or short by police, night patrols, mistaken identity, during robberies.

We therefore invite all helpers, international volunteers, who feel there's a call for them in this direction to donate passionately or come work with us in the task of teaching, playing new kids games like board games, learning a local language,dancing, drama and doing art works!

Volunteer

One of the most precious ways to help a child in need is to give your time and talent. You can volunteer in a multitude of ways depending on your chosen location, time, and abilities including, teaching new skills, building schools, providing food and resources, and much, much more.

Please, you are all welcome to donate any amount to help, from $5 monthly to keep a street child at school.

Thank you so much for your help today.  https://goto.gg/51124

Kindly feel free to contact us today, will be glad to talk to you!

Management.