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Redeemer Children’s Home

July 18, 2019

The Challenge Children at the Redeemer Children’s Home often arrive there through the most tragic circumstances, having lost their parents through conflict, extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS. THE CHILDREN NEED A SAFE AND LOVING ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN GROW UP AND ATTEND SCHOOL. Redeemer Children’s Home The Home is run by the Sacred Heart Sisters, who […]

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The Challenge
Children at the Redeemer Children’s Home often arrive there through the most tragic circumstances, having lost their parents through conflict, extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS.

THE CHILDREN NEED A SAFE AND LOVING ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN GROW UP AND ATTEND SCHOOL.

Redeemer Children’s Home
The Home is run by the Sacred Heart Sisters, who provide a loving and caring home for the children while they attend school and later to go through vocational training. For example, training as car mechanics. Both girls and boys attend school and particular care is given to ensure they have good role models.

How IRT Helps

In supporting Redeemer Children’s Home, we aim to provide orphaned children age 6 and up a safe and loving place in which to grow up and go to school.

To ensure the long-term care for the children, we work closely with the Sisters to establish income-generating projects.

With our help, Redeemer Children’s Home has successfully established a small-scale farm with a piggery, dairy cattle and poultry. The farm also produces a number of crops including maize, soya and millet which are then ground by the Home’s mill. A large proportion of the crops are produced to feed the children. The Home also runs a small shop in the nearby town of Moyo. The shop sells items such as sugar, rice, eggs (from the Home’s chickens), toiletries, children’s shoes, clothes and fizzy drinks. All the profits from the shop go towards the Home’s day-to-day running costs.

 

 


StepUp

July 17, 2019

We  support the Step-Up Project, a multifaceted initiative focused on agricultural programmes in Lira, Uganda. This comprehensive project encompasses education, healthcare, and livelihoods to enhance the well-being of vulnerable populations in Northern Uganda. Through collaboration with a local NGO, Organisation for Community Action (OCA), we have been a key partner since 2009, with successful outcomes […]

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We  support the Step-Up Project, a multifaceted initiative focused on agricultural programmes in Lira, Uganda. This comprehensive project encompasses education, healthcare, and livelihoods to enhance the well-being of vulnerable populations in Northern Uganda. Through collaboration with a local NGO, Organisation for Community Action (OCA), we have been a key partner since 2009, with successful outcomes from previous Step-Up programmes in Lira and West Nile.

Central to the Step-Up programme is the promotion of farmer cooperatives, empowered to generate income through a rural savings system. Notably, these cooperatives have achieved self-sufficiency, marking the sustainability of the initiative. Our current programme reaches 600 households, benefiting a total of 4,200 individuals, and supports 19,831 farmers and their families across five programme intakes.

The Step-Up Project is made possible with funding from the JAC Trust, Waterloo Foundation, and the Orp Foundation, and it exemplifies how collaborative efforts with local partners can drive transformative change across entire communities.

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Moyo Babies’ Home

July 17, 2019

The Challenge Many children and babies become orphaned during times of conflict and forced displacement. The nature of the conflicts in northern Uganda and across the border in South Sudan has made it especially difficult to find relatives of lost and orphaned children. Every child deserves a safe and loving environment to grow up in […]

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The Challenge

Many children and babies become orphaned during times of conflict and forced displacement. The nature of the conflicts in northern Uganda and across the border in South Sudan has made it especially difficult to find relatives of lost and orphaned children.

Every child deserves a safe and loving environment to grow up in and that is exactly what Moyo Babies’ Home offers.

Moyo Babies’ Home

The Home is run by the Sacred Heart Sisters, who provide the children with a safe and loving environment to grow up in and to begin school. The infants are watched over constantly by the Care Assistants, who give loving care to all the children. When the children become old enough, the Home supports them in going to the local nursery school and then to the primary school nearby.

Re-homing the Children

The Head of Moyo Babies’ Home, Sr. Maureen Kojoa, does all that she can to find the children permanant homes either, in the local community or, if they are South Sudanese, back in South Sudan. Fortunately, each year a few lucky children are found loving homes in their former communities.

Sr. Maureen makes rigorous checks on the suitability of prospective adoptive families and conducts follow-up visits after the child has been re-settled.

How IRT helps

To help ensure the long-term care of the children, IRT is supporting the Sisters at Moyo Babies’ Home to establish and run income-generating projects which can help fund the day-to-day running of the Home. Projects include vegetable growing, keeping poultry and rearing goats. These types of projects not only help supply the Home with food for the older children but the excess can be sold to pay for the babies’ formula milk.

The Sisters also share beehives with the Sisters at Redeemer Children’s Home. Beekeeping is a great source of income as honey is an in-demand product in Uganda.

In supporting Moyo Babies’ Home, our aim is to provide vulnerable orphaned babies and children in northern Uganda with a safe and loving environment in which to grow up.


Scholarships for Girls

July 17, 2019

The challenge While the rate of primary and secondary education is climbing in Uganda, there are still many factors turning girls away from school. Inadequate school infrastructure (classrooms and furniture), sexual harassment and gender based violence, pregnancy, and household responsibilities such as cooking and caring for younger siblings are all major deterrents for girls in […]

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The challenge
While the rate of primary and secondary education is climbing in Uganda, there are still many factors turning girls away from school. Inadequate school infrastructure (classrooms and furniture), sexual harassment and gender based violence, pregnancy, and household responsibilities such as cooking and caring for younger siblings are all major deterrents for girls in Uganda. In rural areas, it is even more difficult for girls to attend school because of the school fees and finding money for transportation to the school.

While there are many forces working against the female child, the benefits of receiving an education outweigh the negative aspects tremendously.

How IRT help
As part of the StepUp programme, OCA has established a scholarship scheme that promotes and encourages education for the girl child. Girls in StepUp communities have the ability to join a programme that provides funding for their school fees. While not every girl is able to be a part of the programme, it has definitely encouraged more girls to attend school.

IN ONE STEPUP COMMUNITY, OVER 50 GIRLS ARE NOW ENROLLED IN SECONDARY SCHOOL.