Category Archives: Children

Can an Ordinary Child Survive Abuse Amidst Escalating Poverty?

  Children are a gift from God – fragile, delicate and, above all, a blessing to every African community. Failing to have a child, a family is deemed accursed. Such couples will give their all in search of a child … Continue reading

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Children’s Art Project

Ridealist organizes Children’s Art Project and Exhibition in Bududa District Step into a world of lush trees heavy with fruit and zebras grazing under green trees.  Where men herd cows, women tend gardens and children jump rope in schoolyards.  There … Continue reading

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Please sponsor this child!

  In mid-November,  a tearful teenager, Dorcus Nambozo, knocked on the door of the Global Outreach Uganda /Hands of Action Uganda offices. With her was her three-month-old son.    Aged just 17, Dorcus is in a desperate position. Once a promising student, … Continue reading

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Helping Hands – Friends send food

  For I was hungry and you fed me We send love and thanks to our special friends who have heard our cry for help and have sent us much needed donations of food.  They gave what they could spare … Continue reading

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Famine knows no border

Another Painful Famine and Poverty attacks Africa! There is hunger once again.   The worst famine in recent memory has gripped regions in Somalia, producing another painful humanitarian crisis in Africa.  According to the United Nations, tens of thousands of … Continue reading

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Food crisis in East Africa

    Where is the answer to food crisis in East Africa?   Uganda could be the next country hit by alarming malnutrition rates due to the drought which has sparked famine in southern Somalia and hunger in Kenya, Ethiopia … Continue reading

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Helping Hands

  Helping Hands will be a regular feature where we highlight the contributions of the kind people who help our community.   Friends around the world send help Mosquito nets are a gift of life We thank our friends, Shirin … Continue reading

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Love the children

    The child not trained for life will be a beggar for life Michael is an orphan in our village.  When he lost both of his parents, he thought his life had come to an end.  He could not … Continue reading

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Quit talking and begin doing!

  To reduce poverty in communities, quit talking and begin doing! From our perspective at Hands of Action Uganda, poverty can briefly be defined as the deprivation of basic human and social needs and rights. The local people in Uganda … Continue reading

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Give a Child a Chance

    Poverty is the Cause of Child Labour Give a Child a Chance is the call of the day as Hands of Action Uganda marks June 12, 2011 as World Day Against Child Labour. Over 1.8 million children in … Continue reading

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