Kids Club Kampala

Kids Club Kampala is a children’s charity with a Christian ethos working across East Africa. Our mission is to transform children’s lives, empower communities, and reduce poverty throughout East Africa. We do this by meeting children’s and families immediate needs and strengthening their futures through child protection, access to education and family strengthening. Together, we can help more children not just survive, but thrive. We envision a world where every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. By remaining child-centred and prioritising the needs of the poorest, by 2035, we will have made a tangible impact on over 5 million lives. Children’s lives will be transformed through being able to access a good quality education, communities will be more resilient and safer for children to grow up in, and parents will be trained with vocational skills to help lift themselves and their children out of poverty.

The Need

Almost half of the total population of East Africa lives in extreme poverty. Millions of children face harm, abuse, and abandonment. Teenage pregnancy impacts almost a third of girls, and child marriage rates have surged in the last five years. High unemployment forces many families to survive on a single meal daily, intensifying widespread food insecurity and undernourishment. Limited access to education and skills training perpetuates this cycle of poverty, hindering income generation for families. Without urgent action, poverty will continue to hold millions back.

Kids Club Kampala has three important programme areas:

● Education We provide free education for vulnerable children from early years schooling right through to university sponsorship, resulting in increased learning outcomes, improved self-esteem, social skills and concentration levels and better opportunities to enable children to reach their full potential. Since the start of the programme, we have given the gift of free education to over 1,890 children in Uganda.
● Child Protection Children are supported with emergency care, safeguarding and child protection support; resulting in improved knowledge, skills and mechanisms for children to be protected from harm, report harm and receive appropriate and adequate support. Our Ewafe Project supports abandoned and at-risk children in the slums of Kampala, with the aim of reuniting children with their relatives and reintegrating them with loving families.
● Family Strengthening We provide opportunities to skill and strengthen families. We offer women free vocational training, business mentoring and resources for women who are currently unskilled and unemployed. Our carpentry project provides young men and boys in the slums with the vocational and entrepreneurial skills they need to earn a regular income, support their families, and move out of poverty. Our most recent graduates are now building better futures for themselves and their families.

A car donation could help to fund any of these incredible projects and the reward is the result of children and communities’ lives being changed for the better every day. Children who were severely malnourished now healthy, children going to school who previously had no hope of doing so, a mother being able to provide for her family, a previously abandoned child now in a loving home – Kids Club Kampala believes there is no greater achievement!