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Family Care Uganda provides hope and a future for children coming from a hopeless place. The world is gaving challenges these days. Thank you. We need your help.

Providing a school for disadvantaged children from northern Uganda, we also sponsor many into secondary school and on into successful careers. No more so than the poorest of the poor. Family Care Uganda has been registered in Uganda since 1999 and our main focus is establishing a fully self-sustained school for some of the most disadvantaged in Gulu who were born to child soldiers during the war.

Others we sponsor, amidst our 200 children are from the remote Ik tribe and many young refugees from South Sudan. We continue to sponsor scores through secondary school and a number through tertiary. We are small but effective!

09/04/2026

A wonderful group of children at Park Ridge Primary school in Australia took time to make beautiful cards for our children of similar grades. Our kiddos are so excited, they're really happy to make cards back and we'll mail them soon. It's so interesting as children talk about their hobbies and lives and are starting to build bridges across cultures!

07/04/2026

After Easter prayers, it was time to celebrate with a treat: goat meat for all! 🎉👌🏽🎶 Teacher Patrick helped the boys, who have already learnt the basics of butchering, prepare it well. So happy to celebrate together!

11/03/2026

So proud of Mackline! 😍 She's been with us since she was young. While studying to become a nurse she found she has a serious auto-immune disease, lupus. Even while in pain she soldiered on--even studying with her head on her pillow. This morning she got her grades--despite it all, she was TOP OF HER CLASS AGAIN! 4.88 GPA!

07/03/2026

Yay! Time for Tuku! These fruit grow on the special palms in and around our school and the kids absolutely love being able to freely enjoy them any break!

21/02/2026

One of the coolest things about starting the new school year, is welcoming our new students from the remote Ik community in the mountains and our dear new refugee students from the camps.

06/02/2026

We are very excited, humbled and proud of our grade 7 class who made us top in the District again! 🙏🏽🙌🏽💖🎶💃🏿🕺🏿

31/01/2026

We are so proud of our students and team! The results for the National exams came out for P7 and again, our class scored all As and Bs and not one received an average or low grade! It's a huge credit to them, knowing some came to us with years of zero chance of schooling because of the war in South Sudan, others came from trauma or extreme poverty! Each one has gained such rich experiences together--not only in academics, but in learning to really care for eachother, and to trust the Lord. They've had rich lives filled with sports, work, digging, helping, play and we wish them every success as we continue to sponsor the majority into secondary school. Thank YOU for helping us achieve these otherwise impossible goals

13/01/2026

You are transforming lives when you partner with us! From so little hope, to Mark (engineering) and Patrick (pharmacy) studying in university. The youth are the hope of the future.

15/12/2025

Thank you so much if you remember our kiddos this Christmas! This special time of giving each year can change so many lives! Giving to a project that has remained steady year after year, giving tangible hope where there was none is a wise investment! May this Christmas be special for you and yours!

06/12/2025

What an amazing year it's been! Finishing up the term, satisfied that all have tried their best and learnt so much! Girls, refugees and the poorest of the poor blossoming because you have stuck with us. We could not have done it without you! Thank you!

22/11/2025

Weekends, after clean-up, bring extra chances for football, volleyball and games. Skipping is always popular, and these girls' clapping game where they have to outwit the other is very popular too. Then there's a game you buy a nice wooden board with scoops for the beans, but our kids (and a great number of kids outside the cities) scoop holes in the ground). It's like a 3D board game called Tuku Coro and requires skilled choices and they really enjoy them all

05/11/2025

Exams finished, lots of smiles so it's looking good! ha! Our dear top class have grown beautifully over the years they have been with us . Some came seriously traumatized from the very real challenges they'd faced in life. They've developed friendships that will be meaningful throughout their lives. Tomorrow they will head back to the refugee camps, to their guardian or mum, the Ik will need to wait since the road is so extremely muddy right now, buses have stopped moving. We pray they will be safe in the villages until they are ready for High School starting in February. We are so proud of how incredibly hard they have worked. Over half of them spoke almost zero English when they joined us, yet here they are, about to receive top grades in the National Exams, as we do every year! Some here are holding the photo pages from their life-changing excursion, so they'll have photos of their dear friends from different tribes they studied and experienced such growth and hope with over these years. A genuine keep-sake!
Thank you so much for every dollar you send us!
Secondary school fees here are not cheap, and our older ones will be moving onto tertiary and career training. We couldn't do it all without you! Thank you!

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Gulu District
Gulu

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http://familycareuganda.com/donate-2/

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Northern Uganda has been neglected on the world stage for a very long time. Donor funding to the country mostly goes to the capital, Kampala. There was an incredibly brutal 20 year war with Kony that led to, according to the UN, up to 30,000 children being abducted as child soldiers. The parents and guardians of most of our children were those who suffered through that war.

In the far north east of the country is a very remote tribe called the Ik. We worked with them years ago and when we established a primary school, the elders begged us to bus their children to give them a chance in life. We’re now fully caring for 45 Ik young people in primary and secondary school, and bus them home every holiday.

South Sudan has recently been also experiencing war of horrible proportions, so we now have a number of South Sudanese children from one of the refugee camps here in Uganda.

We provide full living and academic care for these children and even though many have hardly heard a word of English when they come to us, we consistently have top scores when they leave. We are so proud of them!