Out Reach

Street children in the slums of Kampala face numerous hardships and challenges every day. They lack families, food, clothing, clean water, sanitation facilities, shelter, health care, and education.

 These children come from a variety of backgrounds. They are orphans of Uganda’s civil wars and armed conflict, victims of the AIDS epidemic, from families pushed out by rural-urban mitigation, and runaways suffering from abusive or poverty-stricken families.

The children are constantly at risk of child labor, exposure, hunger and malnutrition, abuse, corruption, hopelessness, infections, and disease. Many of them escape through drugs to numb both physical and emotional pain. They use it as an escape from past trauma, fear, depression, and to cope with the hardships of daily life on the streets.

Programs

• Education

• Athletics

• Food

• Hygiene

• Health Care

All these children, under different circumstances, would have the opportunity to succeed. They are smart, funny, talented, and ambitious and it is our goal to give them that opportunity.

PCA identifies vulnerable children living on the streets who face these challenges. PCA then offers them the opportunity to join in a biweekly outreach program at the Kisenyi community center.

Once there the children can bathe, receive medical treatment, counseling, food, clean water, clothing, education services, religions services, art classes, and more. The slum outreach program’s mission is to fill the gaps for every child and to rescue poor families by empowering them with skills.