Uganda | Projects
44%
of street children start life on the streets from the ages of 5-10 [1]
54%
of uganda’s urban population live in informal settlements [3]
15,000
estimated street children are living in Kampala [2]
SAFE Uganda is based in Kampala and they are determined to minimise the number of children abandoned on the city’s streets by taking a series of preventative and remedial actions. SAFE breaks their work down into the following focus areas:
Nsimbe Transit Centre
The Nsimbe Transit Centre acts as a temporary home for up to 20 children who have been neglected or abandoned and rescued from the streets. The home is a real haven for the children and they are nurtured and cared for in a conducive family atmosphere. Where possible the children are re-settled with suitable family members, and support is given to ensure their continued well-being.
Child Protection Awareness Forums
These are run in community centres, schools, mosques and churches for children, teenagers and adults to promote children’s rights. SAFE also appears regularly on Ugandan television and local radio shows to promote children’s rights to as wide a network as possible.
MODEL FARM
SAFE is developing a model farm at the Nsimbe Transit Centre to provide vocational training for the children who stay there and nutritious food for the site. Excess produce will be sold at affordable prices to the local community as a means of income generation, while also building stronger ties to their local area in the outskirts of Kampala.
£15 will buy a welcome pack containing new clothing and toiletries for a child at the Nsimbe Transit Centre. Please donate to enable SAFE to help street children settle in to their new home.