Uganda's Children Reclaiming their Future

Our aim is to seek realistic and sustainable interventions for breaking the cycle of child poverty. Our child centred community development approach means children are getting involved in the transformation of their future and the community they live in.

HIV/AIDS affliction and Malaria is increasingly taking its toll on those who should otherwise be enjoying childhood in Uganda. It is the children who are  ultimately suffering.

Children constitute 62% of the population who live in absolute poverty. Children in hopeless poverty need education and holistic care. Education for children is a means of fighting poverty and reducing vulnerability. Poverty prevents the fulfilling of basic human rights to survival, security and well-being.

The Child Sponsorship Program provides at-risk children with accommodation, education, healthcare, nutrition, nurturing and other basic needs. It is holistic care that covers the physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, and intellectual needs of a child.

ISAA works on a grassroots level in Uganda, East Africa through ISAU to give children a chance to break free from poverty and experience a hopeful future. Contact ISAA and find out how you can Change a Future by sponsoring a child today. 

Almost one-third of children under the age of five are underweight in sub-Saharan Africa.

The average age in Uganda is 15, the lowest in the world.

56 percent of the population is under the age of 18 years of age. 

Children are being kidnapped, trafficked as slaves each year, being used for cheap labour or for sexual exploitation and ritual sacrifice.

Human trafficking is the third largest money earning international crime in the world. In Uganda, the offense has become rampant. Victims include adults and children who are forced into sex trade, child labour or ritually sacrificed.

One in three of Uganda’s street children are orphans. The majority of street children are engaged in stealing and begging.

Child abuse remains a serious problem, particularly rape and other sexual abuse of girls known as "defilement." The perpetrators of defilement often are family members, neighbors, or teachers. A 2005 Save the Children survey of 1,400 children conducted during the year found that 46 percent of girls were sexually abused and 20 percent were raped.

Approximately 13% of children are orphans (UBOS 2005).

An estimated 6.5 million children and women are living with the effects of conflict mainly in the Northern districts in addition to around 240,000 refugees as a result of other conflicts beyond Uganda borders. (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 6, 2007).

 Child Sponsorship helps provide towards a child's education and/or family micro-development in the community setting.