Our Mission
The mission of Helping Hands Uganda is to empower and improve the welfare of needy children in eastern Uganda.
Working Together
Helping Hands Ugnada identifies candidates for sponsorship based on our mission to help people help themselves and each other.
Families are prioritized who demonstrate a charitable attitude towards their neighbors. This allows Helping Hands Ugnada to help ckidren in more vulnerable situations than otherwise would be possible.
Children who qualify for funding typically live in thatched roof houses with mud floors, and have numerous siblings. Their families have subsistence gardens of not more than 2 acres, and do not own any large livestock such as goats or pigs. Religion is not a selection criterion. Caregivers of the children are often ill or elderly, or single parents: three of the children currently sponsored come from single mother households and five belong to grandmother-headed households.
Families are interviewed in person by the Project Director in Uganda, and when possible, by directors from Canada. Profiles are then sent to Canada to be reviewed and matched with donors.
Groups of about five families are identified in a particular locality. Normally, one or two children are sponsored in a given family. Children accepted for sponsorship continue to be sponsored until the age of 22, when they are considered adults in the Ugandan school system.
