Africa Foundation is the largest independent
service provider for marginalised children. It is also
one of the foremost, child-centred, innovative organisations
in Uganda.
  Africa
Foundation pioneered the first ever program of rehabilitating
and caring for street children, orphans, abandoned babies
and other vulnerable children in Uganda.
Founded in 1971 by Rev Dr Kefa Sempangi, Africa Foundation
is a fully registered in:
Uganda: Africa Foundation
Registered No. S.5914/138
A Non-Governmental Organisation
UK: Africa Foundation for Uganda
Charity No. 1104869
Germany: Our Representatives: Dritte-welt-kreis.de.
Africa Foundation has two committees; one based in
Uganda and an International satellite committee in United
Kingdom and USA. The International committee is responsible
for collecting money from sponsors, distributing photographs
(and letters from children) to sponsors, sending money
to the Uganda committee, keeping weekly contact with
the Uganda office, and (once a year) making visits to
the project in Uganda.
The Uganda Committee is responsible for keeping detailed
records of transactions, sending monthly reports to
the International Committee, distributing school uniforms,
clothes, and school supplies, health care and resettlement
programme to the street children, orphaned children
and abandoned babies distributing daily meals to the
children at our Mukono children Centre, keeping contact
with and providing support to the orphan’s caregivers
(for the children that Africa Foundation caters for
while in their own foster homes), and for maintaining
all our programmes.
Africa Foundation is driven by the desire to see these
poor homeless children removed from the street and to
provide them with the basic necessities of life.
The objectives of this programme are:
- To pick these youngsters from
the streets, market places and slum areas and lead
them into settling in a decent way of life.
- To win the confidence of these
young boys and girls, restoring in them the spirit
of love, and to constantly remind them that they are
also loved and cared for.
- To rehabilitate, develop and
settle these children, through stages, until they
are restored to the “normal” life styles
of living.
- To provide them with shelter,
foods, clothing and medical care.
- To provide them with an education,
either formal or informal, cater for their training
needs and to equip them with literacy skills.
- To provide and encourage a sense
of brotherhood among our children, settling them together
as members of one family.
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