According to the UNICEF (2020), Uganda has over two million orphans. One out of seven children in Uganda is an orphan making them 15% of the 60% total youths in the country. Children become orphaned due to a number of reasons including HIV, accidents, wars and ethnic uprisings among others which take their parents’ lives leaving their traumatized and impoverished children behind. Being orphaned without supportive relatives and friends leaves children in an unsure life; there is no food to eat, no shelter, no education, drained with child labour, child abuse and health issues are also left hanging among other unfulfilled needs. This in the end forces children to end up on streets in trying to fend for themselves where they encounter a lot of problems beyond their control.
As Twahirah Islamic Charity Organisation (TICO), we aim at purchasing land where we shall establish the Twahirah School Project. This school shall support orphans and other most vulnerable children to build a better future for them thus becoming better citizens. To make this school more enabling to all orphans, it will have different sections as elaborated below;
- This project will have a section of a Primary School for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC). This school will teach secular and theology syllabuses plus Quran Memorisation to all needy children on our sponsorship program.
- Another section will be for Skills training of the vulnerable children and young adults. Among the skills we intend to train are bakery and cookery, tailoring, hair dressing, candle making, welding and carpentry.
- The other section will be a Sports Centre for different games to help the needy children and young adults in grooming and promoting talents.
Basing on the above motive, we need to raise two hundred forty (240) million Ugandan shillings (USD 62,844) to purchase two (2) acres of land in Wakiso District.
Therefore, Twahirah Islamic Charity Organisation, on behalf of the vulnerable children, calls for your support to restore hope in their lives through the services we ought to provide to them. Join us today. Consequently therefore, all supported vulnerable children will have access to better education, capacities built and made better citizens who will extend help to those in need in the future.