Christmas
cards
drawn by our
sponsored
and street
children
Please help us if you can with the cost of running the Alongside Africa Amasiko Street Children project.
Provide opportunities, not aid
Christmas
cards
drawn by our
sponsored
and street
children
Please help us if you can with the cost of running the Alongside Africa Amasiko Street Children project.
Recently the Alongside Africa Uganda senior management team were given the opportunity to share the message of Amasiko with the local community through local radio.
Many thanks to Voice of Kigezi FM for donating the air time to help the street children of Kabale – Amasiko is a project that involves the whole community.
Supporters may recall Ivan, one of Amasiko’s first street children, who had to undergo surgery on his foot several months back. He is now sponsored and settled at Amazing Love School.
Ivan passed by the AAU office at the end of term yesterday. Our Director Wilberforce writes: “You should’ve been around to see how his pals (former street children) welcomed him – with open admiration and, perhaps, envy! In the first place, the fact that Ivan opted to go home rather than spend his time at school or loitering on the streets of Kabale speaks volumes. Furthermore, this time, rather than offering him the ‘traditional’ gum (glue) to sniff, the street children offered him a mug of hot porridge, which he enjoyed.”
What wonderful work from the teams at Alongside Africa Uganda and Amazing Love School.
Ivan is pictured here when he was still a street child and now proudly wearing his school uniform, along with two female children at Amasiko who are getting support from the programme but who need sponsors.
Transforming lives by providing opportunities not aid. Please help us if you can with the cost of running the Alongside Africa Amasiko Street Children project.
The Alongside Africa team working at Amasiko received great praise recently that reflects the invaluable work they are doing for the street children:
In the words of one of the ladies, who runs a small grocery not far from our Amasiko premises: ‘You people are definitely doing very good work with the maibobos (a term commonly used to refer to street children). Of late, I have noticed that at least 10 of the street children under your care have transformed for the better. They are much better behaved than they used to be before your intervention. Though they used to be a nuisance to the community around, they look healthier and well fed; no longer sniff glue; neither do they steal from us as they used to do in the past. We wonder what magic you’ve applied to these children some of us had given up on! This has gradually changed the negative attitudes most of us had regarding street children in our midst. We used to regard them as pests and good-for-nothing.’
Well done to everyone at Amasiko, we are so proud of you!
Transforming lives by providing opportunities not aid. Please help us if you can with the cost of running the Alongside Africa Amasiko Street Children project.
Thank you.
Many thanks to Rotarian James Ndomeirwe for a new donation of clothes to the children at Amasiko, our street children programme – putting good words into good actions is the hallmark of a good person!
Transforming lives by providing opportunities not aid. Please help us if you can with the cost of running the Alongside Africa Amasiko Street Children project.