We serve abandoned children, orphaned, experiencing abuse, parents who have a mental illness, and those separated from families during war or conflict. We provide appropriate shelter, nutritious food, clothing, education support, and medical care.
Our goal is to help these children and others be in safe and loving families including:
- Survival & Health
- Care & Protection
- Education & development
- Economic Stability & Security
Children at Kinyarugonjo
What is Family-based care?
The focus of Family-based care is providing the love, nurture, and security that allows a child to thrive through reunification with biological parents, kinship care, foster care, or adoption.
Also, a vital part of supporting family care is strengthening families to prevent unnecessary separation.
To this end, we are doing the following:
- Reuniting children with their families and communities
- Locating families, parents, and kin for children
- Building awareness in the community about child protection, alternative care, and legal protection for children.
Changing the way we care to family-based approach
Children should be families and kinship care, not orphanages. Both Scripture and science affirm that the best environment for children is within a loving, secure family.
That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
We seek the best interest of each child, which is finding a permanent family setting as soon as possible.
Our programs
Family-based care and Kinship care
Children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. Kinyarugonjo is helping with family-based care services.
In most cases, kinship care – where extended families take care of children whose parents have died or abandoned them. These family members receive financial support, job training, food, school allowance, health care, and parenting coaching from our staff.
A child being reunited with their family
Kinyarugonjo Family Hope Center
We’re raising funds to help us transition our children home to provide child-centered, family-focused places where families go to find hope, get support, and empowerment in their community to reach their fullest God-given potential.
The key to the Kinyarugonjo Family Hope Center’s success comes from combining effective programs and passionate people to help families that are experiencing poverty, family issues, and lack of services. We also provide computer training and job skills training.
Our programs seek to engage through family assistance and community events; equip families through education, financial empowerment, child and youth development, and spiritual growth. We elevate families through family coaching, counseling, and spiritual enrichment.
Family Hope Centers in Uganda also have tutoring, medical support, training, therapy, to meet the basic needs of families who live nearby.
Do you want to make an eternal impact in the lives of children?
Sustaining Families
We know that children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That’s why we’re committed to strengthening families and helping keep them together to orphan prevention and reduce child separation.
Our support includes education, healthcare, spiritual development, and economic skills training build a strong foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency. We help parents gain skills that can to help sustain their families for the long-term, including:
- Necessities, such as food and healthcare as needed
- Parenting skills/workshops on caring and support healthy child development
- Counseling and mental health support
- Financial support for job training and micro-business development so that they earn income from trade skills, such as baking, knitting, sewing, welding, computers, or bookkeeping and more
- Linking families to service providers who can assist them
Family sustaining and reunification picture from John's story of hope