About us

Kinyarugonjo provides residential care for orphans, vulnerable, and abandoned children. We also provide educational support to children from low-income families in greater Kibaale, Uganda.

Our goal is to help these children and others be in safe and loving families.

We provide care help children in the following areas:

Survival & Health – assessing basic needs and their overall health and well being
Care & Protection – assessing child-safety for abuse, neglect, and abandonment
Education & development – attending schools and progressing in learning development
Economic Stability & Security – determine the ability of the family to meet the needs of children

Happy Children at Kinyarugonjo

Our Story

Kinyarugonjo Children’s Home exists to give hope, love, and care for orphans and highly vulnerable children and disadvantaged host families.

Our concern for children and families underpins the founding Institution’s Motto: “Loving God and making him loved.”

Kinyarugonjo got its start by a group of Catholic nuns known as the Daughters of St. Theresa.

The Daughters of St. Theresa of the child Jesus locally known as Banyatereza Sisters believe and serve to hold on their motto of “Love God and make Him Loved.”

The congregation was founded in 1937, in western Uganda, Fort – Portal Diocese. Their mission is to evangelize, animated by spiritual childhood, their vision is to serve under the reign of God, and their charism based on spiritual childhood of Jesus.

Vision

To help kids to be in loving families and be a model for best practice in protection for orphans and vulnerable children. We also want to prevent family separation by empowering families economically and helping develop skills to better care for their children.

Our Mission

To give appropriate care, psychosocial support, to orphans, vulnerable children, and economic empowerment to their families regardless of gender, religious, or tribal affiliation.

Our focus includes the following:

Reuniting children with biological parents when possible
Placing children with next of kin or foster parents
Strengthening parents to meet the needs of their children for healthy development