President’s Statement

Child Rescue & Foster Care Services

Child Origins

Children come to us from various sources. Eleven children were referred to us by community leaders. Six children were gradual entries through our library and soccer progra, while four children were high-risk emergency child protection entries due to severe trauma, abandonment and severe neglect.

Foster Care

In this first year of existence, your gifts have rescued 20 children from dangerous living conditions and placed them with foster families. Your donations also reunited 15 unattached children with extended family members and continued to monitor and support them.

Thanks to your generousity CNFOUG registered and trained 50 foster parents, and 30 of them are still waiting for resources to welcome children into their homes.

Training

Search & Unite

Foster families provided much needed stability and safety for traumatized children. 15 children reunited with their extended family members. Community support has helped us develop non-institutionalized alternatives and unique child rearing practices similar to those in nuclear families.

CNFOUG Foster Parents

Serunjogi, 9 Years Old

You Gave Him a Home

Orphaned at only 7 years old. Serunjogi was abandoned and forced to beg for food on the streets of Mukono before he was rescued and placed with his CNFOUG foster mother, Kamiyat.

Serunjogi is adjusted to regular house routines after living unsupervised on the streets for two years.

He needs tuition to complete his transition to a normal childhood. When he grows up he wants to be a teacher.

“It took him a while to settle into our family routines.” Serunjogi was used to his way of life and resisted discipline, especially bed time. It has been a joy to watch him soften and bond with his foster siblings. It took everyone in the family to get him to this point. Today he loves his elder brother role and protects his little sisters fiercely. It took him a while to accept that we won’t throw him out when he messed up.”

The first two weeks are always the hardest. Kamiyat(foster mother) called me almost every other day to speak to Serunjogi over the phone. He needed reassurance that I wasn’t coming back to remove him. My response each time was, you are stuck, you new mummy loves you too much to throw you out.” He chuckled each time, no one had ever told him they loved him.

Community Care

Kyanja Library

Free Literacy for All in the Community

100 Students

Lydia, 12 Years Old

You Saved Her from Early Marriage

Lydia has 14 siblings all from one mother. Her father died from heart complications four years ago, 5 of her teenage sisters have run off into marriage.

Without intervention, Lydia was at high risk of following the same pattern. She had been out of school for two years before she came to our library outreach program.

Although she is 14 years old, Lydia is in 3rd grade. She returned to school after getting an education scholarship from You, our generous contributors.

Thanks to YOU she is also receiving free tutor sessions to help her catch up with her peers.

“Lydia loves dancing, and she always has a smile on her face despite her circumstances. It’s an honor to be her assigned mentor. I don’t take this position for granted. I know she’s watching me and looking at me for guidance and encouragement.”

Feeding Programs & Music as Therapy

You Made this Possible for 100 Children

One hundred children and youth have received a healthy snack and hot nutritious meal through the Kyanja library feeding program. For some of these children, this was their only meal that day.

Hot meals are served on each library day and during spring breaks. A hungry child finds it hard to concentrate and interact with peers. The feeding program has been most valuable during school breaks when most children stay home alone without adult supervison or meals.

“Uganda is a developing country where stunted growth rate due to malnutrition is a significant public concern”, John Bukusuba Makerere University.

Interns offered 300 hours of music as therapy to traumatized children both off the street and children in our foster care system. Singing and dancing have been a valuable tool in reviving these children’s broken spirits.

Guardian Teams

Medical Emergency, Bedside & Grief After care

2018 Financials

Thank You to Our Contributors

Albert William Opio
Allen Kakooza
Coley Gallagher
David Pascal
Denis Mugnwa
Diana Janefrances Namiwanda
Kaitlyn Kmetty
Florence Kakooza
Flavia Nanyondo
Ibrahim Sekagya
Emily N.

Hood Kiyimba
Matha O’Carroll
Mapke Kenyi
Michelle Thomas
Michaela K. Sternstein
Oliva Mirembe
Proscovia Nakate
Rachel Kibaya
Richard Bell
Shamim Nampala
Simon Njuneki Ahikiriza

Financial Stability for Foster Families

Financial Vision for 2019

On wards

Women Enterprises

Going forward, we’ll focus on strengthening our foster families – both financially and economically. We’ll provide more skills training, personal financial management, budgeting and marketing of their products and services. We’ll also expand access to diverse skills training by recruiting diverse business mentors.

Finally, we’ll extend in-home services to those foster parents who cannot otherwise attend group training.

Volunteer Workers are Our Life Line