Angels Care Online Launch!
From Hope to Hope…
We are excited to launch our online Sponsor Hope initiative for Angels Care!
In 2008, Pastor Godfrey Byaruhanga opened Angels Care School and Orphanage to meet the ever-growing needs of the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement outside of Kygegwa, Uganda.
Today, Angels Care, also formerly known as Village of Hope, provides care for over 130 orphans and provides education for over 1,000 students. The Ugandan Government recognizes Angels Care School as providing competitive and quality education for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs).
Located between several war-torn countries, such as the Congo and South Sudan, Uganda is the third-largest refugee-hosting country in the world, providing safety and new homes to over 1.5 million refugees. The Kyaka II Refugee Settlement is home to 150,000 of these refugees, along with many other Ugandan locals. The needs here are many, especially in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Markets have closed and travel banned, causing many to lose their already sparse incomes. Families are facing food shortages and health emergencies.
In the midst of these challenges, Angels Care Uganda brings hope!
Our mission is to educate and raise the leaders of tomorrow through innovative and sustainable development practices.
Currently, our immediate needs are continued support for our children at Angels Care Orphanage and our students at Angels Care School. We are also in serious need of financial support to help feed our community due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as support to purchase medical supplies for the launch of Angels Care Medical Centre. If you wish to support us in these ways, you can sponsor hope here.
Alongside our orphanage and school, Angels Care is also spearheading several development initiatives within the Kyaka II refugee settlement. Angels Care Fuel for the Future is a sustainability project that uses bio-briquettes as sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel to mitigate the challenges of decreased deforestation due to ever-increasing refugee influxes and to prevent the abuse women face when searching for wood fuel. Angels Care is also in the process of fundraising for a Maize Milling Machine so that we can subsidize the costs of feeding our children and students and provide the refugee community with access to maize milling as a source of income for Angels Care. Other projects we have undertaken include our Feminine Care project to provide our female students with menstrual products so they can attend school all month, every month. To learn more about our innovative development projects, please visit our Hope Projects page.
As of June 2020, we are also excited to announce the opening of Angels Care Medical Centre. ACMC is a vision five years in the making, and it is for this reason that PAstor Govery’s daughter recently graduated medical school
ACMC is ready to serve and save the lives of our children and students at ACS who have been overwhelmed by rampant sicknesses due to insufficient and expensive health care services from the local private clinics and public health care centres in Kyaka II refugee settlement.
ACMC will provide subsidized health care services and treatments to the refugee community, free service for the children and students of ACS, and we commit to always carrying out community health education and sensitization on disease prevention and better health practices.
“Every individual’s health is our concern,” is our motto. ACMC will provide a wide range of services, from family planning, antenatal and postnatal care, maternity/delivery services, to child health and immunizations, minor surgeries, STI prevention and treatment (including for HIV), to psycho-social support including counselling.
For a firsthand look at Angels Care, take a few minutes to watch this video:
As a grassroots, locally run and operated organization, every dollar you give goes directly to our work on the ground. There are no donation processing fees, and donations are kindly processed without fees through a Canadian non-profit.
