In the spring of 2007, three men from Kayango, Uganda went up to a hilltop to pray for their village. They spent three days and three nights asking the Lord to send help to their land; the education system was incredibly poor and there was wickedness and poverty everywhere. The three men stayed upon the hill for 72 hours with no food, water or shelter, amidst ferocious storms and swarms of mosquit
os. Eighteen months later, a church in Grant, Nebraska felt the call to enhance their global missions. After researching opportunities, they partnered with Children’s HopeChest who coordinated the sponsoring of orphan children in Uganda in order to give them a better quality of life. The specific village the children were from? On launch day in 2009, all 100 orphans were sponsored by the local church; the Lord had answered the cries of His people in Uganda! After several years and trips over the ocean, the organization has grown from children meeting in a pastor’s home for meals and devotions, to a five acre plot of ground known as the Kayango Children's Kiddukiro, or KCK. The KCK serves as the home to our newly built CARE Uganda Education Centre, a day school for 50 Primary One and Primary Two students and a care center for
112 of our boarding school students when they are on holiday. We officially became CARE Uganda in the spring of 2013 and the ministry is completely funded and supported by the Grant E-Free Church, the New Life Fellowship Church and members of the local community. CARE Uganda connects one child in Kayango with one sponsor in the US. Our sponsors are directly invested in the lives of these children through monthly financial support, intentional prayer, and letter writing. As we work to reach Uganda for Christ through the discipleship of its youth, each child's $40 sponsorship is used to:
*teach them about Jesus Christ
*provide them with a Christian education
*meet their immediate needs
*equip them to be self-sufficient
*encourage them to use their new found hope, education and skills to change
their community and country
Other infrastructure on the KCK property includes:
• Water well that provides water for the entire community
• Large meeting room that acts as a community meeting place and the main building the ministry uses to care for the children on holiday
• Upgraded kitchen built by the Ugandan staff and community
• Fence with gates around perimeter of property
• Small office created from the previous kitchen
• Foundation and first floor exterior walls of boarding school building
• Established electricity which neighboring village members can tap into for their homes
• Three classrooms completely finished to host students of a day school
If you feel led to sponsor or a child or donate to the building fund, please message us!
