Initiative Save African Children – (ISAC) - Uganda

What’s Initiative Save African Children?

Initiative Save African Children (I.S.A.C) – Uganda is Non profit making, Christian Organization, whose focus is to; Reach and Rescue the orphans, street children, abandoned children and all the underprivileged children from the terrible situation and suffering they face.

What is the problem?

The HIV/AIDS scourge in Africa is obvious. It has created thousands of orphans and increased poverty overall, leaving most families living in squalor. In a country like Uganda, it was indicated in the 2002 National Census that 54% of the population are children under the age of 14 out of the general population which is 24.6 million. The majority of these children are from poor families who cannot afford to go to school.

An estimated two (2) million children have been orphaned as a result of their parents dying of AIDS. About 10% of the general population is HIV positive and AIDS is the main cause of death among adults between 25-45 years of age.

Some children, when both their parents die, are taken to grandparents who are already helpless and soon find themselves on the streets eating from the trash, suffering from sexual abuse, child labor, early marriages, and many other horrible situations, the tragedy of these young lives is heart wrenching but as a sponsor, you make the difference.

c. Vocational Training:- Its ISAC’s passion to see these children have a desired education through hand work. ISAC seeks to build a Vocational Training Institute to help those children achieve and discover their potentials through their hands.

This will help them earn a living as soon as they leave the children home. The skills will include; brick laying, carpentry, computer training (repair – hand ware and soft ware maintenance), tailoring, etc.

So it is our pleasure to have you as a partner both prayerfully and financially. In order to do that we need to pray for 20 computers, 20 sewing machines, 20 knitting machines, carpentry equipments, etc.

How does ISAC work?

a. Through community awareness about the HIV/AIDS scourge and its effects. This is at the center of I.S.A.C through public gatherings, rehabilitation, counseling, school student seminars, and child awareness. In so doing there is hope that the deadly cycle which AIDS has created will be broken.

b. Child sponsorship is a way of sharing love in a practical way with an orphaned and /or poor needy child. A child in need from a developing country is linked to a sponsor in a developed country. The Child you choose to sponsor is a blessing to the family where he/she comes from and later to the community and country. With only US $ 25 per month you can sponsor a child and with in no time you will notice the great change your sponsorship will have brought in the life of that child.

This money will be able to cater for your child’s school fees, uniform, medicine and a hot meal while at school.

Some of the children having a meal at school

I.S.A.C seeks to create a parental-type of bond between a sponsor and their sponsored child, allowing the sponsors to provide some emotional and psychological support, albeit from a great distance.

They have no schooling, medical care, clothing, food or clean water and often the family that loved and cared for them is gone. That is why I.S.A.C “The Children’s Hope” comes in to link you with a child in Africa.

Each sponsor receives 2-4 letters from their sponsored child as well as an updated photo every year. The photo allows you to see the remarkable changes your sponsorship makes to your sponsored child. A sponsor is also welcome to visit with their sponsored child in Uganda on the invitation of ISAC. You are encouraged to send in a birth day gift and any other gift to your child.

d. Rehabilitation center:- ISAC seeks to build a rehabilitation center in the future. Here children from either the war torn areas, broken families, abandoned, streets will be rehabilitated and later introduced to foster families. There are a number of street children in war torn areas like Gulu and Southern Sudan whom ISAC seeks to rehabilitate and give hope to.

e. Forster families:- ISAC seeks to have all children linked to families and these families are the ones we are calling Forster families.

The reason is that we need each of these children to have a feeling of a family in that they get a love which is desired from a person who feels to love a child and these families will be facilitated by Isac to have income generating projects to enable them take care of the family.

f. ISAC seeks to reconcile the runaway children with their parents/families. There are many children in Uganda who find themselves on the streets not because of one reason but due different circumstances; like their parents die and no body can take care of them, toxic families, wars, etc its ISAC’s desire to have those children reconciled with their relatives and parents.

g. ISAC plans to start self help income generating projects for foster families and AIDS affected and infected parents as most of the families live below the poverty line in future. Our goal is to link a support family from the developed country with a foster family in Uganda. When this is done the the "poverty cycle will be broken"

Contact us for more information:

Ricky Richard Kahudu
Director/Founder
rickykahudu@yahoo.com
+ 256 774 101304

Or write to us at:

ISAC – Uganda
P.O. Box 1963,
Jinja – Uganda
East Africa

Our belief is that all children are equal and should get the best they can out of their lives and have their future bright and destiny , give them hope and a bright future.