Our Why – Children of Uganda

Because a strong family and community foundation support a child’s ability to rise.

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Children of Uganda has a longstanding and successful history of educating and empowering youth; and yet, we have come to see that women are capable of doing what individual child sponsorship cannot: creating sustainability for entire families and communities. Women – and specifically those who love and care for children, biological or not – are the key to unlocking the chains of poverty.

But the reality is, the odds are stacked against them.

50% of women in Uganda are married off by the age of 18 (with 10% by age 15). Women also have an average birth rate of 5.59 children, compared to a global figure of 2.5. Uneducated and overwhelmed with responsibilities, women are faced with an enormous strain caring for their children. Those without a financially supportive husband or relative, struggle to clothe and feed their children – let alone send them to school. The cycle of poverty continues…unless we act:

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average children per woman, compared to a global 2.5