Our Story...
One evening Morris and Chelsea were eating at a local restaurant in Lira when three street kids approached them and asked them for food. Shortly after the three had left three more appeared, this time with a can of glue in hand. They were clearly high. They were 11, 12 and 14 years old. Morris and Chelsea traded them bread and milk for the glue. The image of these 6 kids haunted them. So, they decided to do something about it. The first thing they did was take a group of 12 out to dinner at that very same restaurant. The restaurant wanted the kids to eat out of plastic bags outside. They were afraid that their dishes and cutlery would be stolen. Morris and Chelsea said that they too would eat out of plastic bags on the veranda. Soon all of them were in a backroom eating chicken and rice. The boys took them “home” and showed them where they slept in and around dumpsters because the garbage made a soft bed. Morris and Chelsea couldn’t believe their eyes, a bed of waste and rotten food is not a bed. Morris was already advocating for orphans and disadvantaged children in northern Uganda and decided to dedicate himself to the street children. Atin Afrika (Child of Africa) Foundation’s transitional shelter for street children was born.
