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Enterprise development
In collaboration with Makerere University Business School Entrepreneurship, innovation and Incubation Centre MUBS-EIIC, we identify most vulnerable households/urban poor households, who are prepared and trained in basic entrepreneurship. After identifying and...
Child case support
Every child has the right to be protected from violence and live free from fear, neglect, abuse and exploitation. In Need Home provided the most needed case support to victims of Violence against Children (VAC); provide recovery support to Survivors of Sexual Abuse...
Computer and tailoring
In Need Home uses Vocational Skills as a way to empower youngsters who never got chance to continue with education and those who have never been in school. This helps in breaking the yoke of vulnerability among the youngsters at risk
Education support
We select the most vulnerable children based on a 4factor criteria of Out of school children; Orphaned children, Children living with Disabilities (CLWD); and Chronically sick childrenAfter selection, a child is supposed to complete a two year program at In Need Home...
Music dance and drama
We use music therapy as an effective tool to reduce anxiety, provide emotional relief and facilitate affirming social interactions. We use it to help traumatised youngsters to reconnect with their present selves, to accept themselves, and to foster resilience. This is...
In Need Home Football Team
In Need Home has a football team made from the same children we support, through which we convey the values and life skills like friendship, teamwork, communication, critical thinking, problem solving among others. They play in local leagues and they are very keen on...
Accountability
In Need Home is very keen on the issues of accountability. As an organisation we are aware that we are accountable to our beneficiaries and our development partners. The income that is received is always well recorded by our professional full time accountant who has...
Is KCCA mission to rescue street children sustainable?
A KCCA law enforcement o cial with a rescued street beggars At the busy Wandegeya four-way road intersection, it is common to find juvenile beggars in big numbers. Strikingly, nearly all of them hail from Karamoja and among them are some as young as two years old. At...
26 women remanded to Luzira for using children to beg
26 women remanded to Luzira for using children to beg City Hall Magistrate’s Court has remanded 26 women for using children to beg on streets which is a crime under the Kampala Capital City Child Protection Ordinance 2022. The 26 appeared before Magistrate Edwin...
Four detained for child trafficking as 220 street children are rescued
KCCA officer takes a street kid off the street in Kampala Four people have been arrested in Kampala for using children to beg and encouraging them to stay on the streets. Anah Nalukude, Brenda Nakiru, Maria Longol and Santa Anyango were arrested during a children...
Mother of seven commits suicide over hunger
Kotido-A mother of seven children in Loteerei village, Longaroe Sub County has committed suicide over starvation due to prevalent drought and biting hunger in the region.The deceased identified as Mariana Lokwii aged 28 years has been the sole breadwinner for her...
KCCA evicts at least 260 children from streets
KCCA officer takes a street kid off the street in Kampala Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on Monday started an operation to rescue children from the city streets where at least 260 children were picked up from various parts of Kampala. The Authority said the...
ChildFund launches a five year strategy targeting four million vulnerable children in Uganda
ChildFund Uganda has launched a five year strategy plan aimed at supporting 4million vulnerable children in Uganda. Speaking during the commemoration of the Day of the African Child at Soroti Hotel, Moses Otai, the Country Director of ChildFund Uganda said the...
Sustainable Skilling
In Need Home Sustainable skilling program focuses on non-Formal Education and Livelihood Skills for Slum Young people. It builds on the notion that the majority of the young population and young parents living in slums in Kampala, lack formal education and skills and...
Sponsor a Child
Sponsoring a child is a wonderful way to help change the life of a child. Supporting a child through our Children Sponsorship Programme will give you the chance to provide a life changing opportunity for a child in need as well as build a relationship with them if you...