Key Challenges in Uganda & Our Response
Uganda is known for its many unique cultures and lush landscapes. However, Uganda is also home to children living in devastating poverty, and they face serious challenges that Compassion is fighting back against.
Natural Disasters Threaten Children
Many regions in Africa, including Uganda, regularly face disasters. For example, the Karamoja region of Uganda is no stranger to poor growing seasons. Other regions face flooding during the rainy season that destroys homes and crops.
When these disasters strike, children face exposure to the elements, severe hunger and emotional trauma.
Our Response: Caring for Children & Communities Facing Crises
Compassion partners with local churches throughout these African communities to provide emergency food and water, temporary shelter, counseling, medical care and future disaster preparedness training to children and families.
Crises like natural disasters often push children and families further into poverty. But by providing both short-term and long-term care, we help them stay on track toward escaping its grip.
Malnutrition & Lack of Medical Care Cause Preventable Deaths
Recent data shows that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of infant mortality in the world at 27 deaths per 1,000 live births. Malnutrition and a lack of quality medical care for moms and their babies is a large part of the problem.
Our Response: Delivering Nutrition & Medical Care to Mothers & Babies
Compassion’s local church partners provide care to mothers and babies through our Survival programs. These programs offer pregnant moms access to important health services and support like prenatal vitamins, food packets and checkups.
Survival programs also cover delivery costs and provide emotional support for families during childbirth. Support continues through the child’s first year of life, until they’re eligible to receive long-term care through child sponsorship.
This care ensures moms and babies have what they need to not just survive but thrive together.
A group of children laugh and smile on the grass at their child development center.
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Two young boys stand against a wall as they play and laugh.
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A group of girls joyfully perform a dance at their child development center.
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A young boy smiles and holds a baby goat.
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Children play on the playground at their child development center.
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A boy stands by the water in a fishing village in Uganda.
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Children listen and learn while in the classroom.
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A young boy smiles while running his hands under a stream of water.
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Boys make a soccer ball out of strips of plants.
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A mother sits with her child on their bed under a mosquito net.
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