Today, the home cares for over 50 children, coming from many different districts of Uganda and ranging in ages from 0-5. In addition, we're also providing support and family strengthening to 48 reunified families.
Babies playing at St. Kizito
St. Kizito twins in kindergarten being prepared for reunification with their family
Staff attending to the babies at St. Kizito
Our goal is to help these children in our care and others in safe and loving families through kinship, family reunification, and community-based care.
We've witnessed a growing dependence on institutionalized care for babies and children over the years. As a result, our home has stretched its resources to the maximum for this vital work.
Us transitioning our model to support more family-based care will reduce the dependency on institutionalization. We can help and impact more children from within their families.
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Currently, we support:
What is Family-based care?
The focus of Family-based care is providing the love, nurture, and security that allows a child to thrive through reunification with biological parents, kinship care, foster care, or adoption.
Also, a vital part of supporting family care is strengthening families to prevent unnecessary separation.
Our Program
To ensure the sustainability of family-based care, we are doing the following:
Changing the way we care to family-based approach
Children should be families and kinship care, not orphanages.
Research affirms that the best environment for children is within a loving, secure family.
At St. Kizito Babies Home, we seek the best interest of each child, which is finding a permanent family setting as soon as possible.
That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Our Work
Our program's transition emphasizes sustainable family-based care more than institutionalization while advocating for children's best interests
Reunited families pose together at St. Kizito
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The children at St. Kizito Babies Home giggle and sing on the swing set enjoying a beautiful day with staff outside
The sweet children at St. Kizito Babies Home on enjoying a beautiful day with staff outside
Projects St Kizito Babies Home
Since our beginning, we have cared for abandoned newborns and children whose mothers or parents have died. St. Kizito Babies home offers love, and care for the most vulnerable and abandoned children so they can grow and thrive.
Family Strengthening
We know that children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families and helping keep them together.
We are currently raising funds to better provide education, healthcare, spiritual development, and skills training build a strong foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency. Also, we seek to help parents gain skills that help sustain their families for the long-term, including:
- Necessities, such as food and healthcare as needed
- Parenting skills training with structured programming
- Family support counseling via trained therapists and social workers
- Life skills training
- Economic planning and job skill development so that they earn income from trade skills, such as baking, knitting, sewing, welding, computers, or bookkeeping and more
Continuum of Care
Family-based care and Kinship care
St. Kizito is helping with family-based care services. In most cases, kinship care – where extended families take care of children whose parents have died or abandoned them.
These family members receive financial support, food, school allowance, health care, and parenting coaching from our staff.
Water & Sanitation
St Kizito Babies Home seeks to acquire a solar water pump to supply the home with sufficient water .
Health Care
We have healthcare related programs that are focused on supporting the mental and physical well being of our children.
Education
For the time they are with, we try hard to to give them an opportunity to acquire that basic knowledge they desire by sponsoring them from baby clsss through Primary Five.
Child Rights
The children's home understands the link between nutrition and education and support other children plus our own through a wholesome nutritional program
The home is supplied by HEP whose bills at times find when there is not a penny to clear it all, we require to install solar systems for efficient supply of electricty.