Kids Club Kampala

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Kids Club Kampala, founded in 2009, is a UK charity working to bring hope and love to vulnerable children in the slums of Uganda.

Our vision is to see lives transformed, children and communities empowered and to ultimately not need to exist as poverty will have been reduced throughout Uganda’s slums.

Our focus areas are
• providing access to education,
• keeping children safe,
• meeting basic needs and
• transforming communities.

We provide daily children’s activities and social support for over 4000 children and young people across 20 disadvantaged slum communities in Kampala.

Projects
• Encouraging Education Project: Our Encouraging Education Project allows children, who would otherwise have no access to education, to have the opportunity to learn through taking part in free education classes. The classes are taught by Ugandan teachers and run from Monday to Friday every week throughout the year. Lessons are designed to follow the Ugandan curriculum. After lessons each child receives a hot, nutritious meal which helps to tackle malnutrition and contributes to an improvement in the children’s overall health and well-being. Children gain social skills and develop behaviour for learning through a programme that facilitates a positive classroom environment and provides children with clear routines and goals.
• School Sponsorship: We also run a School Sponsorship programme, where the neediest children in the communities are identified and given access to formal education and the opportunity to go to school.
• Championing Girls: We run Girls Support Groups that focus on discussing issues such as early and forced marriage, teenage pregnancy, health and sex education, menstrual hygiene and personal security alongside many other issues that girls bring up in the groups. We also offer individual counselling for girls who have been abused, neglected or need support in any way, and we support their basic needs by supplying them with much needed donations of sanitary pads and school materials.
• Football Project: Our Football Project for teenage boys gives them a safe space to belong and support each other whilst being mentored both on and off the pitch.
• Saturday Kids Clubs: Our Saturday Kids Clubs provide children with a safe space and the chance to play and enjoy being children, away from the challenges and struggles of their everyday lives.
• Feeding Project: Our Feeding Programme is solving both the immediate need and providing a long term solution to child malnutrition in Uganda’s slums through providing daily nutritious meals to vulnerable children and helping families to increase their incomes to enable them to provide food for themselves.
• Women’s Initiatives: Our Women’s Initiatives aim to provide a ‘hand-up’ to women living in poverty in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. We believe that self-sustainability through skills training and income generation activities is key to reducing poverty and transforming communities.
• Carpentry Project: Our Carpentry Training Project provides young men with the chance to learn a skill for life.
• The Ewafe Project: Ewafe means ‘Where We Belong’ in Luganda. This project supports abandoned and at risk children in the slums of Kampala. The project offers emergency help and a safe place to live, while also working towards reuniting children with their relatives and reintegrating them with loving families where possible. Our model of Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reintegrate has an underlying ethos of finding family care for children.

Olivia Barker White is a Co-Founder of Kids Club Kampala.

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