Our story

We hereby take this opportunity to introduce our organization to you and hope that in the near future we could have the chance to work together for the mutual benefits of our people. Kwagalana Community Foundation. is a nonprofit and community-based organization; it is duly registered by the district as a CBO with a mandate to support and empower orphans, impoverished and vulnerable children. And trying to uphold the standards of living for the local communities. Currently, we are running several projects in areas of Ndejje villages key amongst them is the primary school.

It is proper and right to work with Kwagalana Community foundation (KWCF) in building a permanent center in UGANDA, AFRICA.

This is because the feeling of the street children outside there where there is no shelter and security is covered so much by hopelessness and helplessness and as a result of this they have no option but to leave on the streets with tough and miserable lifestyles without a future. In Kampala as well as the other major cities of the world, street children go through problems of begging, from one street to another, this is done mainly by the younger street children between 5-14 years old. In the process of begging the children prefer to be given money rather than food. Other street children involve themselves in other activities such as; Stealing, pickpocketing, prostitution, tramping, and violence. In such activities, some children get sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, some face mob justice from public and others end up in hands of police where they are beaten and taken to the cells.

I believe that this is a divine purpose of the Kwagalana community foundation to shelter, transform, and involve the children to mold their own lives in a good and comprehensive center. With such a center, we shall remove the children from painful experience and life-threatening conditions that street children undergo by being labeled in a negative or wrong perception by the public when they are looked down thus they are called rubbish scavenger, or hooligans, vagabonds and a group of people prone to committing crimes and as the result, they became a target of harassment by law-enforcers whereby they are beaten and detained. In such an environment the government has done little to make a difference to the plight of the street children. An attempt to solve the problem of street children has been put in several areas. One area is the rehabilitation of the children by taking them off the streets, accommodating them in a center compacted with training, educate and reuniting them with their families.

Another area is rehabilitation through residential institutions or individual contacts without reuniting them with their families. The third area is by simple sympathy where many organizations deal with extreme causalities of the phenomenon without attempting to take the children off the street. The fourth area, is an attempt to work in and through the children own organizations or gangs by giving them gifts during holidays and visiting them without an aim of removing them from the streets. The fifth area is where some organizations operate in isolation or with local communities where the children live without necessarily changing the living standard of the children.

Kwagalana community foundation plans to participate where we want to have far-reaching and rehabilitate the children and deal squarely with the causes of their problems and involve them in the transformation of their life plus. The foundation has brought major changes in the lives of the children by greatly moving children through good and positive changes in their life. The major changes comprise participation in education from Kindergarten or nursery school, eating good and healthy food, clothing, a shelter for the few orphans, love and care change of attitude and behavior, medical care, security, participation in Christianity and mostly creating a vision for own life with self-confidence. With such experiences within the children, the KWCF urgently needs a compacted center to accommodate and empower the talents of the children for their life now and in the future. We believe that Together we can change the lives of children in Uganda.