Child Protection Uganda Project #26217

Supporting vulnerable children in Uganda's slums

by Kids Club Kampala

Supporting vulnerable children in Uganda's slums

Project Report | Jul 27, 2023
Projects Update: Summer 2023

By Andy Brown | Individual Giving and Supporter Care Manager

Feeding - Breaking Down Barriers

Through working in Kampala’s slum communities for over a decade, we found that many children were unable to join in with our lessons, games and other activities due to fatigue from a lack of food. To ensure this did not become a barrier to participation we decided to provide food for the children attending our various programmes. Over the past three months alone:

The 96 children attending our Encouraging Education Project received a hot nutritious meal everyday
The 805 children attending our Saturday Kids Clubs and 64 children attending our Football Project received a snack and drink during each session

We have also continued to provide food parcels to the families in greatest need. Between April and June we provided food parcels to 122 families who had no other way to sustain themselves, in total supporting 582 individuals with 12,200 meals!

"We had run out of food for a few days now, I had nothing to feed my five children, the food you have given us is more than just a blessing for us, may God bless you."

Educating - Enrolments, Graduations &
Community Libraries

Following a three week school holiday in May, children on our Educating Programmes returned to the classroom to begin term two. The start of the new term is often a busy time, with 10 new children joining our Encouraging Education Project and 7 more enrolled on our School Sponsorship Programme. This means we currently have over 260 children benefitting from our programmes who are able to access a good education as a result.

The last few months has also been a time for celebration, with 4 sponsored children successfully graduating from the programme! Our graduates are leaving with vocational skills in a variety of fields, including: Catering, Hairdressing, Fashion and Design and Early Childhood Development. Although they may have graduated with varying skills and have differing career ambitions, they all share a common belief that their future will now be much brighter as a result of the School Sponsorship Programme.

Thanks to a large number of books that were kindly donated and shipped to Uganda, we have recently been able to setup community libraries at each of our three education centres. These enable children to access books and practice reading in a safe and quiet space.

Protecting - Girls Support Groups, Saturday Kids Clubs & Lots More Football

During the last three months our protection projects have continued to grow and reach more vulnerable children and young adults. More children are coming along to our Saturday Kids Clubs and engaging in sports, games and Bible study, more teenage girls were given free period products, and we expanded our football project into the Naguru slum community. This has almost doubled the number of children who are attending our football programme!

805 children attended Saturday Kids Clubs, across 10 communities
64 teenage boys attended football training, up from 34 at the start of the year
120 Girls Support Groups were held for teenage girls. These included counselling, mentoring, life skills and wellbeing support
Free period products were distributed to 589 teenage girls

Skilling - Graduations, *Mary's Story &
Hope Centre Progress

Our skilling projects have not slowed down as the year has progressed. We continue to take on new students in tailoring, knitting and carpentry, as well as saying goodbye to our graduates leaving the programme with new skills and qualifications, enabling them to support themselves and their families.

In April, 28 students graduated successfully from our tailoring and knitting courses
Since then 38 new students have already been enrolled on the next intake
22 students are now training on our carpentry course after 2 new students joined

“My name is *Mary, I heard about the KCK tailoring project through our local leadership chairman and at that time I was just at home with no employment. When I joined the course, I had no idea about how to do tailoring, I could not even operate a machine on my own. I am so proud that I have been able to learn a number of things. I can make different items on my own such as dresses, pinafores, shirts, skirts and a lot more. I am planning to buy my own machine and start earning money.” *Name changed

Work on our new skilling centre has been progressing well. Some issues with land drainage did slow down progress a little and pushed back the finish date. However, the problem has been solved by installing a new drainage channel and work is Our skilling projects have not slowed down as the year has progressed. We continue to take on new students in tailoring, knitting and carpentry, as well as saying goodbye to our graduates leaving the programme with new skills and qualifications, enabling them to support themselves and their families. back underway at The Hope Centre!

A Message from our Executive Director

While times have continued to be hard, the need to serve our communities has never been greater. We continue to offer our services with consistency and as a result are very well trusted and well respected within the communities. As our programmes are needs based, this is an attribute that keeps us unique.

We have also received several requests to establish our work in more districts within Uganda, but currently do not have the financial recourses to respond. During the upcoming quarter, we shall be reviewing our programmes and budgets with the UK office to address this increasing demand.

A good quarter it has been! Haggai 2:4-5

Blessings,
Samuel Wambayo
Executive Director

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