Projects

Ugam Homestead UGAM Homesteads for orphaned, street and neglected children flakes away the dirt, pain and anger that define the chronically neglected children. The Homestead purpose is to develop and educate these children; to put the trauma of their past aside and to ensure they have an empowered future.
The homesteads help them to stabilise children away from the street, deal with substance abuse, educate, empower and develop them towards a a secure and empowered livelihood.

Challenge of homeless and orphaned children. . Children's homelessness is a seemingly intractable problem across East Africa, and the challenges to homeless children are unique not only due to their vulnerability but also because they are helpless, particularly in the early childhood. The drastic increase in the number of AIDS orphans has stretched the limits of traditional care requirements for orphans, forcing them into the streets and be involved in unhealthy sustenance use.

Project Focus

• Perform Outreach activities to identify, assist and get children off the street, left alone homeless, orphaned and settle them in care or link them foster families.
• Construction of Residential-Care shelters and the development of Transitional Programmes for the youth preparing to leave care homesteads.
• To provide early intervention programmes that empower children with access to a safe consistent space, family preservation, school attendance with collaboration with local schools, school aftercare, nutritional, life-skill development and therapeutic support services.
• To provide a drop in centre where orphans, homeless kids, street children, of even for those who just come onto the street periodically to beg, can get assistance like showers, food and formal assessment by a social worker.