Partners and Cooperation
A close cooperation to Uganda is highly important for us and the sustainable success. We are very happy to be able to maintain an effective relationship built upon trust with four Ugandan institutions. Decisions are not made in Germany but are always discussed together in order to represent all sides and elicit the best possible results. The well-being of all our supported children and youth are as dear to our partner’s hearts, as they are to ours.
Jangu Tusome (“Come let us study”)
Since 2014, many of the former sponsored students started to engage in the work of Jangu e.V. to support their younger brothers and sister of the Kankobe Children’s Home. Being sponsored as a child, they now sponsor others and create an outstanding, sustainable cycle to tackle the social problems of Uganda. Nowadays, Jangu e.V. doesn’t only provide sponsorships and life guidance to orphans from Kankobe but includes many other project. Thus, in 2016 former sponsored students founded “Jangu Tusome” which stands for the coordination of the sponsorship program in Uganda. Together they take on essential roles like paying our partner schools, handing out scholastic materials and supporting the sponsored students in every day life. The fact, that the children of the Kankobe Children’s Home receive a proper education and are able to grow to mature and independent humans is in many ways owed to the work of the “Jangu Tusome” Team.
Child Welfare and Adoption Society (C.W.A.S.)
We collaborate closely with the Ugandan NGO C.W.A.S. (Child Welfare and Adoption Society). The non-profit organization is running the „Nsambya Babies‘ Home“. A place where hundreds of abandoned babies are taken care of and the organization is trying to find families that would like to adopt a baby in Uganda or internationally. Furthermore, C.W.A.S. is in charge of the Kankobe Children’s Home.
Kankobe Children’s Home and the Sisters of the Good Samaritan
The children of our educational sponsorships are all coming from Kankobe Children’s Home. It is an orphanage in Uganda located 90 km from the capital Kampala in a small village close to Lake Victoria.
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It was established in 1988 by an Italian priest and is administered under C.W.A.S. It is the home of approximately 120 children aged from five to about thirteen.
The children have been brought to the home for various reasons: Some have lost their parents, others were abandoned when they were babies and spent their early years in Nsambya Babies’ Home. Many have lived under disastrous conditions (extreme poverty or violence) which left their families with no option but to bring them to the orphanage to grant them a fairer childhood nonetheless. The well-being of the children is in the hands of the “Sisters of the Good Samaritan”, a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women who send at least three Sisters into the home. Together with two care-takers, a nurse, a cook and a social worker they are running the home and take care of the children until they complete primary school.
After seven years of primary school there is no possibility or funding for further support of the children, no matter how well they performed at school. At this point Jangu e.V. is coming in. Through a one year voluntary service many of the active members of our team have lived together with the children of Kankobe. Since 2006 we are accompanying them for their secondary education through sponsorships. This honourable work was already fruitful after our first students completed their A-Levels in 2014 and joined our organization.