Children's Sure House (CSH) is a Non Governmental Organization, established in 1993 to assist vulnerable children/orphans whose parents died of HIV/AIDS; in the previous decades of political turmoil in Uganda, children who were dumped by their own parents and others whose parents live below the poverty line. CSH also serves the elderly within each community through various community development initiatives.
Children's Sure House is registered with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Uganda under the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Statute.
CSH New and Old Projects:
CSH is currently operating in nine (9) districts around Uganda with projects focused in curbing illiteracy through providing free basic education to our communities by building schools.
Our strength is attributed to the fact that we work closely with the community very community members we serve by mobilizing them and inspiring them to confront their own problems. Then we involve the central Government to join hands in our initiatives the solicit for foreign volunteers from around the world to participate with us in this noble cause.
Most of our orphans/children come to our CHS schools from their grandparents, relatives, good Samaritans or even child -headed families to access our free basic education.
Kiwangala Project.
For the past 14 years of CSH existence, we have grown from one pioneer project in Kiwangala village, Masaka district to 8 new other projects around the country. This Kiwangala project has provided an opportunity to over 3,000 children some of whom are already attaining University degrees, 200 adults (in our CSH adult literacy program) who can now read, write and count, and are participating actively in the development of their communities. Today Kiwangala project is running a school of 850 children from nursery school, Primary school and Secondary School.
Kazinga Project
This project is located 500 kilometers from the capital of Uganda (Kampala), near the border of DR Congo in Kasese District.
CSH has managed to construct an unfinished 4 classroom block where our 230 children are attaining free basic education. This initiative started in 2007 and it is upgrading every year by one class.
Kayunga Project
This CSH project started with 16 children in the Nursery section. Today, the project is having a registration of 120 children in nursery, primary 1 and primary 2.
Our children in this project are studying under a tree classroom, while others are in a temporary grass thatched classroom.
Ssese Islands Project
Ssese island project is a new project which CSH is beginning in response to an outcry from the communities of that island.
Historically, Kalangala island was a punishment island where all the condemned were taken to live by the King.
Development has been very slow on this island and most of the inhabitants heavily depend on fishing and small scale grocery shops. There is a lot of moral decay and prostitution hence leading to high rates of HIV/AIDS infections.
CSH has already acquired a piece of land where we intend to construct classrooms for the school. This initiative started in 2008 and hopes to realize it this year 2009.
Jandila Project
Jandila is a small village located 30 klms from the capital city Kampala. This village has been haunted
Owangai Project
Owangai project is situated 350 klms north of Kampala in Amuria district. This place was ravaged by the brutality of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) which devastated the Northern Region of Uganda for the last 19 years and has also been hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic thereby retarding the economic activities of the area. This culminated into hominess hence the formulation of Internally Displaced Camp (IDPs).
CSH initiated this project to encourage community members return to their villages since the war finished 4 years, by constructing a nursery and primary school.
It has also been hit hard by poverty since there has been no meaningful economic activity taking place because people feared to go back to their land.
Our project in Owangai is still very much at its infancy.
Since its inception, the school has been able to provide 150 children who are already learning in an unfinished classroom blocks.
CSH has been also trying hard to encourage those people who had abandoned their land to go back and cultivate since the rebels are no longer present.
CSH has also been encouraging the community to come up with income generating projects so that they can be able to fight the biting poverty.
Tula Project
Tula project is located in Kawempe, in wakiso district which is 7 klms from Kampala city.
The school started in 2005 with four classes from nursery to primary 2 but presently it has grown up to three classes with a population of 300 pupils.
CSH started this project because we realized that the children had to walk for long distance to be able to access the government schools. This was very tiresome for most children and they mostly ended up staying at home.
The school also offers some vocational studies like welding, electrical installation and Brick making to the youths who did not manage to go through with their studies. Curently we have 10 youths who have been enrolled in this program.
Queen of Peace Project
Queen of Peace is located in Mpigi district which is 35 klms south of the capital city Kampala.
Muge village is a village which has been neglected for a long time and there has been little development which has been taking place hence giving rise to high level of poverty and HIV/AIDS infections.
The community in this district has largely depended on subsistence farming hence contributing to its poverty.
This project is set up on a land which was donated to queen of Peace by a local Ugandan farmer and a community development worker.
Since its inception, Queen of peace has grown from northing to educating over a hundred local students.
Queen of Peace offers free secondary education hence giving an opportunity to many orphans and poor people an opportunity to get an education.
Queen of Peace has also been offering free HIV counseling to the surrounding communities to those people who have been affected and infected by the virus.
It ahs also been able to offer free adult literacy to the community.
Kabale Project
Kabale is the chief town of Kabale district in south western Uganda. It is one of the districts that have a high degree of orphans in Uganda and many in the rural areas do not receive education.
To find out more information on all of these projects please visit our website:
Website Address: www.childrenssurehouse.com .
Activity Summary:
CSH has embarked on various programs to assist older persons in our communities through numerous initiatives such as:
- The provision of counseling services to the traumatized, for example in the case of a death of their children due to the HIV/Aids pandemic.
- Providing some basic necessities such as sugar, beans, posho, oil etc.
- Providing sensitization about issues such as HIV/Aids, the need to educate the children through the government policy of Universal Primary Education, the importance of primary health care and income generating activities.
CSH serves each of its project communities by offering free education to everyone within that community, and those around. There is no age limit applied to who can learn within our projects, as we believe that education is a life long endeavor. We run Primary and Secondary Schools within all of our project communities as well as adult literacy courses and older person programmes.
Though we are proud of what we have accomplished here at Children's Sure House in our short history, we are aware of our need to build on these successes. In each of our projects we are in the process of building much needed facilities in each area, whether it is a perimeter fence in Kazinga where the local School is surrounded by wild animals in Queen Elizabeth national park, building homes for the orphans in Kiwangala or School structures at our Queen of Peace School in Mpigi district and at our project in Owangai in the Amuria District of Northern Uganda.
Within each project we provide various community development programmes in order to establish a cycle of empowerment within each community. Our activities vary from Model Farming, HIV/ Aids sensitization to Microfinance education.
Sample Project: Kiwangala, Masaka District.
Children's Sure House in Kiwangala has provided more than 10,000 orphans the chance of free education in their Primary and Secondary schools on site, which otherwise they would not have received. Set up in January 1993, the Kiwangala project has grown slowly but surely into one of the main arteries of life in Kiwangala village.
Children's Sure House also provides housing for orphans on-site, adult literacy classes, support from agricultural projects including model farming, HIV/ Aids sensitization along with various other worthwhile projects.
Today many local leaders and local businessmen and women can read and write English and their local languages, because of CSH adult literacy project.
Community Development:
An example of Ugandan's improving their quality of life through CSH's community development is our Home Sustainable Living Program. CSH works to create self-sustainability in Uganda by harnessing the potential of individuals to develop themselves, their households, and their communities. CSH partners with groups at all levels, including local, national, and international organizations in the development process. Examples of such sustainability programmes include our model farming initiatives in which farmers from surrounding areas come and learn new and more effective ways of producing better harvests from their lands.
HIV/ Aids Awareness:
HIV/ Aids is still a major problem in Uganda and our volunteers have offered many classes on HIV/ Aids awareness and sensitization, trying to combat the misconceptions that the youth of Kiwangala have about HIV/ Aids and sex education in general. Volunteers are needed no matter what a volunteer's level of experience; even the simplest messages are very effective here. Imagine a society where children are never encouraged, never told they can achieve good things. Basic information on hygiene, nutrition, etc. is just not passed on from mother to child as in western cultures. Volunteers can help to combat this and help to empower the children to become able citizens.
Building:
Through help from our volunteers, we are currently in the process of building a house for some of the orphans that Children's Sure House provides care for. This initiative will house and provide for a better future for the orphans when coupled with our free education. This will give the children a chance to break free from the poverty cycle that so many Ugandan's are trapped in.
Volunteer Expertise:
We here at Children's Sure House like to harness the volunteers expertise from their home countries and are very open to the new ideas that volunteers may have on ways that they can help. Some of the fresh ideas that volunteers have brought include teaching a business class to the pupils, providing counseling to the children and setting up computer classes to aid computer literacy amongst the school's pupils.
Teaching:
Most volunteer teachers teach English and a second subject for example History, Geography or Biology, but CSH feels that when you come to Africa that we can give you a programme for your stay, but are always happy when a volunteer writes their own, with new and helpful initiatives, as it empowers the volunteer as well as those in need.
History:
In 1979, Tanzania invades Uganda.
In 1979 the first reported cases of the AIDS epidemic are reported in Rakai District, Uganda a few kilometers from Kiwangala village. Generations of Adults die, leaving thousands of orphans to fend for themselves.
In 1992, CSH Executive Directors, Moses Kiwala and in 1995 Martin Mpanga come back from Europe wanting to address the problem of OVCs (Orphans and Vulnerable children).
In 1993, Moses Kiwala the current executive Director and founder of Children’s Sure House sets up the Children’s Sure House Primary School to provide free education to the children of Kiwangala, Masaka district.
In 1995, Martin Mpanga comes back after finishing his education in London in order to join the struggle. CSH sets up its adult literacy and vocational programs in Kiwangala which to date has benefited thousands of community members.
In 1999, CSH sets up HIV/AIDS counseling programs in order to support members of Kiwangala village who are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS.
In 2001, Children’s Sure House starts to receive volunteers from the Dutch volunteer organization Livingstone who helps to construct the school buildings.
In 2002, Due to the success of the primary school, a secondary school was then set up with the help of these volunteers.
In 2003, CSH sets up its Home Sustainability program by setting up a farmer’s co-op, a food security program, and model farm in Kiwangala.
In 2004, CSH broadens its base by setting up the Children’s Sure House Primary School Kazinga in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in order to help one of the worst cases of poverty in Uganda.
In 2005, CSH set’s up its Older Persons program in Kiwangala. This is an offshoot from their previous literacy and vocational programs. The program empowers older people as caregivers to orphans by forming community groups and bringing in volunteers to construct homes for senior citizens in need. CSH also begins to get longer term volunteers from Livingstone and Project Trust, a British gap year program.
In 2006, CSH further expands its operations by setting up the Owangai Primary School in Amuria district and the Jack and Jill Primary School in Kabale. The FlaMart travel agency is also formed as a way to generate income for Children’s Sure House through Eco and volunteer tourism.
In 2007, CSH sets up the Happy times Primary School in Ttula and the Bubanda Godly Angels Primary School in Kayunga district.
2008 Children’s Sure House expands by supporting other education projects in Uganda including, the Queen of Peace School in Mpigi, and the Hope for Youth School in Mukono District. Children’s Sure House also receives its first Peace Corps volunteer.
Main Donors:
Peace Corps:
Peace Corps have thus far sent CSH one full time volunteer for two years with the possibility for more. This volunteer works on various community based initiatives at our project in Kiwangala in Masaka district.
Livingstone:
Each summer, a Dutch based organization called Livingstone sends us four groups of volunteers who come to Uganda on a voluntourism scheme. These volunteers mainly build new school structures and teach in their three week stay with CSH. The size of the groups varies from 10 to 26 volunteers.
Government of Uganda:
In appreciation for CSH’s efforts in Kiwangla, Masaka district, the Government of Uganda allocated us with 2 acres of land on which to build our School for Orphans and other under-privileged children in the area.
Project Trust:
Project trust is a gap year organization (an organization that sends volunteers who have just finished School in Britain and will start University in one year) that sends us six volunteers each year. These volunteers stay for ten months, and generally teach and engage in community development activities within our project communities.
FlaMart Uganda Ltd
This is a tours and travel company that intensely involves in volunteer tourism, all the profits are to help the under privileged people in all these projects. We have tourism opportunities for all our volunteers and other clients who have the heart to help children but cannot necessarily volunteer themselves.
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