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SAFETY PERIMETER
Thank you to Lea and Louise and everyone at Launch Pad for giving so much of your time and love to HOOL once again, we are so blessed with your friendship! In late March of 2019, Launch Pad hosted a Ugandan experience night to help raise funds for a safety perimeter around the orphanage. We […]
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DONATE CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND ITEMS FOR ORPHANS
Giving a Christmas gift to relative or a friend benefits an orphan in Luuka, Uganda brings joy to the child, and helps them experience the true meaning of Christmas. Giving a gift that brings life to another is what Jesus is all about.
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Children Misses School Due to Continuous Hunger
The current situation has everyone talking about the severe food shortage in many parts of the eastern region. HOPE FOR ORPHANS ORGANIZATION brings you the appalling situation as residents reportedly survive on mangoes and porridge. In the midday sun, 13-year-old Joshua Mugomba lies quietly on a ragged cloth, spread under a tree in the compound […]
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WATER CRISIS
The way out of the water crisis in Luuka is not simple. It is a big challenge that needs a big answer. The water crisis is only going to end when we all work together, with the district leaders, with the communities that we seek to serve, and with YOU. Only through deep commitment and […]
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HIV / AIDS Awareness project
According to the Luuka Resident District Commissioner, the HIV / AIDS prevalence in Luuka district is at 7% which calls for more emphasis in organizing HIV / AIDS awareness and sensitization meeting in various communities in Luuka and Busoga sub region at large. Hope for Orphans Organization-Luuka organizes HIV / AIDS awareness campaigns at quarterly […]
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Clean and safe water project
There is one water well at the entire village where these children and other residents go to fetch water for domestic use, others collect water and drink it directly without boiling it or purifying it. The other water source of a borehole broke down and it’s no longer in use but surprisingly water from the […]
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Food security project
Food is also a major challenge in families of the children we care for and in other homesteads that are at the village. Families have one meal in day and others who do not have food resort to eating fruits like Mangoes and Jack fruit and call it a day. When it comes to providing […]
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Hygiene and Sanitation project
In line with the earlier pronouncement by His Royal Highness, the Kyabazinga (KING) of Busoga, William Gabula Nadiope IV, about Hygiene and Sanitation, Hope for Orphans Organization’s Executive sat and set Hygiene and Sanitation as one of the programs that must be addressed as a matter of urgency. We realized that poor domestic hygiene and […]
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Education Project
The orphans we care for hardly speak English since they are in various remote schools located at Namalemba, Naigobya village and Luuka town council.
The Ugandan government passed a law that children from Primary 1 to Primary 4 be taught in their native language (thematic languages) while in class and teaching English starts from Primary 5 to Primary 7 and all this is done at Primary level. In Luuka these children are taught mostly in Lusoga (the native language).
This has affected many children in that many have failed to speak and read English.
Therefore we call for support to establish a Resource Centre where we can train them to speak, read and write English. We need to equip the centre with computers where internet is available and with reading and writing materials.
Some of the 15 children we care for currently stay with their guardians and single parents in different foster homes because of inadequate funds. We also call for good Samaritans to sponsor an orphan at Hope for Orphans Organization.
Most of our children go to Mawembe Primary School and at Kiyunga Parents Primary School but since the schools are both a kilometer away from their various homes, children have to wake up as early as 5:30am in the morning, prepare themselves and walk to school since classes have to start at about 8:00am.
What is saddening is that most parents fail to provide food for their children while at school despite government’s efforts to encourage them in doing so.
So children have to walk back home after school and eat one meal in the evening and others end up eating fruits like Jack fruit. They also engage into doing domestic house work and later go to sleep by 8:00pm.
Many schools especially some which are government aided and private ones are in sorry state mostly in rural areas compared to those in urban centers. Some schools in remote Luuka district conduct classes under trees due to having inadequate classrooms and space to build others.
But we appreciate government that it has done its best in promoting educational standards in the country by constructing classroom blocks at its government schools though it sometimes takes long to support its schools in remote areas.
Since the schools are in remote areas and some in pathetic conditions, children can be given a chance to be taken to other better boarding schools in urban centres once we get for them sponsors to educate them but just to let you know that education in Uganda is paid for and quite expensive right from Primary to Secondary/College and University level under private institutions.
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