Children in Uganda | Open Hearts for Orphans

Orphans in Uganda

program in partnership with Love Without Boundaries & Uganda Rural Fund

The children we serve through LWB are in the care of the Mukono Baby Home are older children with more significant special needs. The home is located on a beautiful plot of hilltop land on the outskirts of Kampala. The home is operated by Ken and Cathy Nganda, native Ugandans who have their own nonprofit (Heart of a Child) and have dedicated their lives to caring for orphaned, abandoned, abused, and neglected children. The majority of children at the home arrive into care in fragile condition, many with medical diagnoses such as HIV and severe malnutrition. They require ongoing close monitoring and attention from the home’s specially trained, live-in nannies. The Ngandas' goal for each abandoned child is for family reunification whenever possible. Social workers employed by the home work tirelessly to find extended family members who can care for the children once they have been restored to health. Foster care options are being developed, as we believe so strongly in the importance of family care for children, but the process is slow. Family-based foster care for a non-relative (versus the common informal kinship care arrangements) is new in Uganda. The hope is that appropriate foster families can be found for these children while they wait for foster care, adoption, or reunification with a birth family member, but that does not appear to be likely anytime in the near future, especially for older children with significant special needs. These children have been designated specifically for Open Hearts for Orphans, and as you consider sponsoring them financially, we ask that you please pray for them as well.
The children we serve in partnership with Uganda Rural Fund are children of all ages who are either orphaned, or abandoned with parents who may be living but the children are not in their care and have unmet needs.