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Kiwangala Project Children's Sure House in Kiwangala has provided more than 10,000 orphan the chance of free education in their Primary and Secondary schools on site, which otherwise they wouldn't 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 organisations in the development process. This is no better exemplified than by John Ssentongo's Model farm on our website.
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. Volunteer teachers 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. You 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.
Flexibility as a Volunteer:
If you choose to come to the Kiwangala project, you as a volunteer are offered the flexibility to choose what you would like to do when you get to Kiwangala. When you arrive and have settled in your house, you will meet Moses the Children's Sure House founder where you will discuss what you would like to do. Whether it is teaching, building or offering help in community development.
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 programmed 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.
Fun as a Volunteer:
We want our volunteers to have fun whilst they are staying with us here in at Children's Sure House. With this in mind we also set up various activities for volunteers when they are not working, whether it is Football, Netball and Volleyball matches against the CSH School. We also visit traditional wedding ceremonies, Ssenga's and Queen Elizabeth National Park. We here at CSH know that volunteering Uganda is not easy, but it is fun with right attitude.
Other projects that our volunteers can get involved in include:
·         Providing training in safe motherhood skills
·         Birth control and reproductive health education
·         HIV/AIDS education support
·         Nutrition education
·         Financial and business management
·         Tailoring training to out of school youth
·         Farming
·         Typing and computer skills
·         Setting up Databases
·         Training people in writing wills and making memory books
·         Home economics, managing a home budget
·         Community mobilization for HIV/AIDS counseling and testing/education.
·         Teaching English as a second language
Amuria
Owangai’s history is a microcosm of the history of Northern Uganda. Ravaged by the brutality of the L.R.A (Lord's Resistance Army) who kidnapped and killed many of the town's youth, and then hit hard by the HIV/ Aids epidemic, Owangai's story is a tale of survival in the face of adversity. Situated 250km north of Kampala in Amuria District, the Owangai project is an initiative set up to help one of the worst cases of poverty in Uganda.
Empowering:
When visiting the area in 2006 the director of Children's Sure House Martin Mpanga, saw children studying in two classrooms, which consisted of a tree and a makeshift hut as seen in the picture below. Seeing the endemic poverty of the area Martin decided to take on the task of building the village a school so that the children of the area can have access to free education, to try and give them the tools to fight their way out of the surrounding poverty.
Daily Life in Owangai:
An example of the struggles that the people of Owangai face on a daily basis is Helen below. Helen is a widow and is taking care of nine children. Helen suffers from HIV/ Aids and has taken over the care of four children of her neighbor who died of the same disease last year. When we arrived at her house there was no granary, which is always an alarming sign in villages such as Owangai. No granary means that there is no food and looking around we could see no signs of a toilet or any other bathing facilities. When we spoke to Helen she told us that she receives treatment for her illness when she can with anti retroviral drugs, but with the nearest hospital 80km away, it is rare that she has a chance to go and get treatment. She also does not know if her deceased neighbor’s child who she is carrying in her arms has HIV/ Aids, as she has not been able to test him. As a one parent family in one of the worst poverty stricken areas of Uganda, life for Helen is a constant struggle, getting food for the nine children is her biggest task on a daily basis. Children's Sure House does what it can by providing food to families such as Helen's but knows that it is not enough as our resources are stretched. Helen's story is one that is unfortunately all too common in Owangai.
Building a better future:
Our project in Owangai is still very much in its infancy. We have started building our School and as at July 2008 we have the foundations on the School established. What we need are volunteers who would like to help build a community in which hope is given a chance. The people of Owangai have little of nothing materially but have a very noble spirit, and are very welcoming to all volunteers as they see them as a sign of hope. Volunteers will not fail to be touched by the experience of being in Owangai much like this writer was.
Empowerment through Teaching:
We at Children's Sure House believe that education is the key to giving the children the chances that their parents were denied. We want to build a School and through community development foster a culture of empowerment and hope to make the lives of the people in Owangai, less of a struggle.
The objectives of the project:

To provide free basic education to the underprivileged children, children infected or affected by HIV / AIDS and other diseases, and provide free adult literacy education to the communities in Uganda.
To provide a forum for young people to build and develop experience in their academic fields and social economic development areas of interest.
To identify and expose potential resources in the communities, country and international arena through research and information dissemination that have relevancy to promote social and economic development.
To establish an HIV /AIDS advisory/ counseling and Information Centre that promotes the use of information and address all HIV /AIDS issues, coordinate training programs and organizing sensitization seminars/ workshops for the community.
To encourage, sensitize and counsel both children and adults living with HIV/AIDS and its prevention through sensitization workshops, counseling services and help carry out tests to the members who might be willing to have this service.
To establish an Orphan and other vulnerable groups assistance scheme.

Queen of Peace
Set up on land donated by a local Ugandan farmer and community development worker Ssali Expedition, Queen of Peace has grown from nothing to educating over a hundred local students. The Queen of Peace Secondary School is one of Children's Sure Houses newest initiatives and one that is very much at its beginning phase of development.
The standard School ages for these years is 13, 14 and 15, however due to the poverty of the area and the lack of free education facilities before the Queen of Peace School's inception, the age groups of the students range from 13 to 19. An example of the struggle of some of the students for education in this area is Joseph.
Success through Empowerment:
One of the Founders, Sseruyange John is an example of empowerment through education in Uganda. An orphan at the age of six, John received support to help him gain an education from domestic and foreign donors. It was very difficult for John to grow up as an orphan, but with the help he received, he managed to complete his studies. John now holds a Master's Degree in Economics from Makerere University (Uganda's most prestigious University), and is a lecturer in Kyambogo University.
John is an example of Ugandan's trying to help Ugandan's. His story is one of hope, which support from donors and volunteers can achieve. After receiving help to complete his studies, he is now helping hundreds of others to do the same, thus creating a cycle of perpetual empowerment. What Uganda needs is Education, Education and Education. John is an example of just how important helping people to empower themselves through education is, and you can see with his story what can be seen all around Uganda, educated people helping their countrymen grow and prosper.

Teaching:
Though the founders of the Queen of Peace School have made great strides in such a short space of time, there is a real need for volunteers in order to help them on their journey. Volunteers are needed to teach in various subjects including English, History and Geography etc. New ideas and initiatives on how to help the children to grow are always welcome at the Queen of Peace School. Some examples of this would include HIV/ Aids education and support, Nutrition education and Computer literacy classes for the School's pupils. The Queen of Peace School also plans to create a Senior 4 class next year, and as such will require teachers no matter what their level of experience in order to facilitate this development.

Community Development:
Nabyewanga, Muge Village is one of those neglected villages that you can see at times when you travel through a main road in a poorly developed country. Too far from the capital to receive centralised assistance, but also not rural enough to attract the attention of various NGO's, Muge Village is in desperate need of help and ideas on community development. With the help of the students, the community has prospered by strengthening its food security with individual classes sent to grow yields of food (including Potatoes see picture below) for both the School's sustainability and the under-privileged at large. However initiatives such as these have been limited by a lack of expertise and resources. We need volunteers who can come up with fresh ideas on initiatives, which can help the School, and the wider community grows as a whole.
Building:
Volunteers are also needed in order to finance and construct permanent School structures, as the current classrooms are made of wood (see the picture below.) The School at the moment consists of two classrooms, which are together as part of a shed like structure. We need to build classrooms from brick and cement in order to create a proper scholastic environment for the children. At present the current structure does not prevent the students and their study materials from getting wet when it rains. If the rain is strong, classes at times have to stop and shelter taken at a nearby building. When therefore need a sound structure in order for us to educate the children effectively.
The aim of the School is to:

To improve the standard of living conditions through the education of the masses, and building homes for the underprivileged.
To establish a provision of safe water for drinking and home use by the community.
To Encourage, support and comfort HIV/ Aids stricken families.
To ensure the provision of vocational studies so that students can strive for self-sustainable career.
To improve the school structures from wooden classrooms to permanent concrete structures.
To provide high quality education to the young and old.
To improve on the income generation of the school through small-scale projects that can empower the students and community. E.g. Raising Poultry and Pigs.

Joseph
As I left Kampala with Sseryange John to visit his School, he told me of one student, Joseph, whose story seemed to sum up so many that I had heard about the struggle for education in Uganda .
John began by going through Joseph's life story, tragically orphaned at the age of four when he lost both parents to the HIV/ Aids epidemic. Joseph was left alone with his sister with nobody around to support him. Joseph did manage to attend Primary School and the start of Secondary School, where he showed himself to be a precocious talent excelling academically, as well as at sports, music and drama. All seemed to be going so well for this bright young pupil. Unfortunately though, due to his financial constraints, Joseph had to leave School early because he could not pay his School fees. He also had to give up on any further thoughts of education in order to help out on their small plot of land. It looked at that point as if a lot of potential would be wasted.
This is were Sseryange John found Joseph a few years later, in a field near the school, with his older sister nowhere to be seen, having married and moved to Kampala. John found Joseph still only a young boy, on his own, farming the land and living in a small dark hut, subsisting on whatever he could grow and sell in the nearby Muge Village.
John commented on how polite and kind Joseph was in that first meeting. When I met him, I met the very same boy. I could not help thinking of how I would have been as a person if my life had been so difficult. I could picture myself as a quiet, sullen and angry young man, but with Joseph I met a boy who was always smiling and always having fun with those around him.
John having talked to Joseph in the field, asked him to come back to School in order to finish at least his Secondary education with the Queen of Peace School. John also offered to try and find him some better accommodation, which he did in the form of a small house beside Ssali Expedito's house. Joseph has taken the kindness and opportunities given to him and never looked back.
Now Joseph is head boy at the School and gets the top marks in nearly everyone of his subjects and is currently preparing for his A level exams. John is in no doubt that Joseph is more than capable of studying at University, and plans to fund his further development when he can get enough resources to do so.
4. Kazinga
The Children's Sure House School in Kazinga is a place where wildlife meets real life on a daily basis. In an environment where animals and people co-exist, conflicts are inevitable. Kazinga fishing village is situated in Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is home to many types of wild animals including Lions, Buffalo and Elephants. Animals of this nature constantly surround the School. The Ugandan government however considers those accidents to be the fault of the people, since they are the ones who prefer to live in the midst of the animals. Some tragic incidents have occurred including wild animals taking children from the school grounds. Attempts to build trees in order to have some protection from the wild elements have been thwarted by the Elephants, who keep knocking them down.
Education:
Children's Sure House wants to build a perimeter fence around the school so that the animals do not trouble the students. CSH also wants to build more classrooms, as at the moment it cannot facilitate the number of potential students that the village currently has. Kazinga has a population of about 1500 people out of which 20% constitute children of school going age. Unfortunately, many of these children have missed the chance of education, as there is only one school in the area. The government set up a school project under the Universal Primary Education (UPE) program but unfortunately most of the children/parents/care takers cannot afford the small contribution of school fees required. The community also needs sensitization as to why they need to take their children to school instead of teaching them how to fish at a tender age. Children's Sure House built their School in order to help build the community by providing free education to those who could not afford it, thus empowering the community by means of education.
Community Development:
Children Sure House also came up with a strategic effort to provide open education to the adults under our Children's Sure House Older Persons Literate program.
Unfortunately at the moment we cannot place foreign volunteers at this project, but plans are in place to enable us to do so. We have bought some land in order to develop a volunteer camp but with resources being scarce we are struggling to build it. We are currently in the process of using the proceeds from our tourist agency Flamart, to fund this development along with our other projects, but are also in need of assistance from elsewhere in the form of donations.
Potential Volunteering Opportunities:
When the camp is set up we can place volunteers in the various projects that we have there including teaching, building and community development. The experience of living in Kazinga is a very unique one, as essentially you will be living in the wild, though Volunteers safety will be ensured at all times. We want to set up this project for foreign volunteers as we are sure that the experience will be unrepeatable anywhere else, and you will be living in this environment whilst at the same time providing the basic education for the youth of Uganda to pull them out of their current poverty stricken existence.
Tula (Happy Times)
Happy times is a day and boarding mixed primary school located in kawempe, Ttula Zone about seven kilometers from Kampala on Bombo road in Wakiso District.
This school started in 2005 with four classes from Nursery to Primary two, but presently has classes up to primary four with a population of one hundred thirty pupils and with a good staff. Most of the children are needy and orphans.
Our intention of setting up this school was to improve on Educational levels in our community; solve transport problems and the long distances covered by the children as they seek for better Education in other areas.
This school is in great need of sponsorship because of the many needy children and orphans in the area but the school cannot accommodate them because of lack of facilitation. The school has got a vacation institution which helps the youths who failed to continue with their studies due to money problem. It teaches them different things like Welding, Electrical Installation, Brick making and other things.
For the Welding section we have got ten youths this year 2007 and more are applying but we cannot accommodate them due to lack of materials and tools like cutters, benders, angle cylinders and more, with few rooms to operate in.
We hope to introduce other sections like computer section were girls can also join and adult Education and others.

Ssese Islands
This project is our newest project and it is aimed at helping lots of children and youth who are vulnerable, destitute, socially underprivileged, most of whose parents live below the line and others died o/guardians. AIDS; most of them now live with grand parents the project area has a population of over 9000 people living near the lake.
We have a school there that has just started with elementary school in wooden shelters.

Introduction:
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.

Project One Kiwangala.
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.
Project Two, Kazinga Project
This project is located 500 klms 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.
Project Three, 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.

Project Four, 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.

Project Five, Jandila Project

Jandila is a small village located 30 klms from the capital city Kampala. This village has been haunted
Project Six, 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.
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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.

Project Seven, 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.
Project Eight, Queen of Peace.
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.

Project Nine, Kabale Project
Kabale is the chief town of Kabale district in south western Uganda.

To find out more information on all of these projects please visit our website:
Website Address: www.childrenssurehouse.com.

Activity Summary:

Older Persons Programs:

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.

Free Education:

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.

Building:

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.

Community Development:

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. A generation 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 Kibale. 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.