Street Children

Shelter for Street Children - Mbarara

There are now 40 children being cared for in Mbarara, south Uganda, in a home built by Aim for Change for small children and young adults who were previously living on the streets.

2 large animal projects, with cows and chickens, provide sustainability for the running of the home. They have now also built a shop to sell their produce. As some of the children are getting older, we have provided them with a workshop for carpentry and this is now running as a business. Its success means we are also in the process of providing a further workshop for welding. The young men are educated in a skill of their choice. Popcorn machines, taxi bicycles and sewing machines are other areas where financial support is raised.

All the children in our care are looked after through sponsorship; there is always a need for more children to be sponsored.

A goat project is about to be commenced in another area in this region for the desperately poor, high in a remote mountain range on the Tanzania border.

The welding workshop is now complete; training is in progress and the young men are producing good quality work which is sold to help further their training.