Napak north of Uganda, with its scorching temperatures, is the most arid and poorest region in the country. The people living there are regarded and treated as outcasts. They are left to fend for themselves while this region has been looted and impoverished by wars and ravaged by epidemics including the HIV virus that still...Continue reading
4,000 children from Northern Uganda (between 4 and 18 years old) have been brought to the capital by human traffickers. There they are forced to beg every day. Exploited and abused, they never get the life that was promised to them. The police try to get them off the street, but there is nowhere for...
Dear readers and dear sponsor, My name is Joshua. I am now 16 years old. In July 2015 I was brought to the Koinonia street children project for rehabilitation. I was 11 years old at the time. In 2018 after two and a half years my residential rehabilitation was over, and I was reunited with...
Dear sponsor and dear reader, How are you, your family and friends doing in Belgium? I hope that each one of you is doing well throughout this corona time. Myself, I am doing very well despite the current situation and I am happy to say that God has protected me from the outbreak of Covid...Continue reading
Some news regarding our 2 last sponsored children Marit and Lolengo, who were left orphaned and helpless after the death of their grandmother. As you will remember, after a truly emergency intervention via social media, brother and sister were taken in shortly after each other by two moved sponsors in their family. What a joy,...Continue reading
Active is an orphan. He was 5 years old when he got in touch with Koinonia His mother died during birth. He never knew his father. An aunt took him along with his older brother and took care of them for a few years, though they were very poor. When she could no longer afford...Continue reading
Deborah is 11 years old and comes from the south-west of Uganda,.the Chahi village in the Kisoro district. She was only 7 when she ended up on the street being neglected and due to extreme poverty. Her father left the mentally unstable mother and the family fell completely apart. Hunger and lack of an opportunity...Continue reading
My name is Christopher. I am a former street kid, one of the children Pr Eugenia picked from the street in the year 2003 in Uganda. I had lost all hope by then. I was neglected by everyone; it was not easy at all. I used to sleep outside, eat from the garbage, had no...Continue reading