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INTRODUCTION

Abigail Children's Home is a Non-Governmental, Nonprofit making Community Based Organization for the prevention of starvation with Mirembe Abigail as the director. Abigail Children's Home partnership with Azusa Street Ministries runs with purpose of helping and working with the poorest people in need. Abigail Children's Home works with communities and stakeholders to promote behavioral change to improve health status of the community, protecting, helping and feeding orphans and vulnerable children to enhance development projects of poverty alleviation. Alongside the poverty eradication program. Abigail Children's Home runs other programs for instance; Community care, Children Rights Protection, HIV/AIDS awareness and providing Supplementary Relief Food Distribution, clothing and other assistants to HIV affected people and other vulnerable people with disabilities.

 

BACKGROUND ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION.

Abigail Children's Home was founded in 2012 by Pastor Kasoga Peter in Iganga district before being re-named to Abigail Children's Home by Mother Mirembe Abigail in 2019. Pastor Kasoga Peter kept and fed over 20 orphans at the church premises. This is where Mother Mirembe Abigail grew up from and later when she grew up, and she got married to the son of Pastor Kasoga Peter. Unfortunately Pastor Kasoga Peter died in November 2013 due to HIV/AIDS and his son took over the responsibilities with the organization and the works of the church as well. Sadly just a period of 2 years Mother Abigail's husband/pastor's son also died due to HIV/AIDS in December 2015 and mother Abigail was left to carry on with the woks of the organization and taking care of these orphans in Iganga district. In early January 2021. Mother Abigail changed the premises of the organization from Iganga district to Jinja City due to increased tensions from the rape cases to Mother Abigail from landlord where the organization was renting by then. 

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Later on we shared ideas about sharing Abigail Children's Home missions and visions online with the world to raise awareness of the works of the organization. In September 2020, DAVID DUNN the founder and president of Azusa Street Ministries positively replied to the mission of ACH and since then Abigail Children's Home has been with Azusa Street Ministries in different aspects in positively impacting the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children. Abigail Children's Home in partnership and help from Azusa Street Ministries we also provide 15 orphans and abandoned children with a safe and loving home.

   

Through our orphanage home. Abigail Children's Home offers orphaned and abandoned children a family and a loving home with mother care and support them in a safe environment where their needs for food, education, health care shelter are met. Also we help strengthen vulnerable families with basic needs. Currently majority of the children living at Abigail Children's Home have lost their parents and relatives as a result of wars, accidents, HIV/AIDS, etc. Mostly our objective is to first provide them with basics of living: Food, Water, Sanitation and Housing. We also hope to provide educational opportunities: School, Social interaction, and Religious Education, all within an emotionally safe environment.

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PROGRAMS/KEY AREAS OF WORK AT ABIGAIL CHILDREN'S HOME;

• Providing a safe place of residence for the children who have lost their parents and relatives, those who were abandoned and mistreated, Currently we are having 15 children as we have a vision to increase on the numbers of the orphaned and vulnerable children from streets.

• With the support from Azusa Street Ministries, Abigail Children's Home provides food, basic health care and clothing for the children under our care.

• Sponsorship of children's education through our project, including provision of books and pens for the children we provide and cater education service to is children home.

• Providing and counseling and awareness raising about HIV/AIDS and children's rights.

• Free rural community outreach development programs i.e. supplementary relief food distributions to HIV affected people and vulnerable people with disabilities in the rural remote villages.

• free medical outreach program in the community to the vulnerable people in the remote villages.

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At Abigail Children's Home, we are committed to the development and implementation of comprehensive care to homeless, street children, widows and youth in the communities in Uganda. Despite all the successes of Abigail Children's Home with Azusa Street Ministries, the future is now on and we have a number of challenges that really jeopardize some of the programs listed above and there are different sections; like food provisions, medical supplies, sponsoring a child etc. that you can get in touch and we shall be grateful for the cooperation and company with us to restore hope, faith, love and better education for the children who lost parents and relatives as a result of wars, HIV/AIDS in Uganda, East Africa.

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