Out Of The Slums and Into School
What Is a Street Child? How do they live? Who takes care of them? Where do they get food? Do they have a Mother or Father to protect them? Do they go to school? Are they clean? Do they have clothes and shoes?
Street children are defined as:
• Children from 5 to 17 years old with no family. Millions have been orphaned - innocent victims of civil wars in Northern Uganda. Parents, brothers, sisters & family slain by rebels, their huts burned. Everything familiar to them is wiped out.
• The wide- spread HIV/AIDS epidemic has left many parents to ill to provide food and clothing so the children run free. They wander the streets daily with many rarely returning home to their parents. They beg for food and go hungry.
• Subject to abuse, neglect, exploitation, many sleep in open buildings without adequate protection or supervision. Many are raped or sexually exploited. Thousands are infected with typhoid from drinking impure water. Malaria is rampant and hundreds of thousands of children die before they reach their 5th birthday because attacks malaria-carrying mosquitoes go untreated.
The Beginning of Their Journey
In 2007 two brothers established the Uganda Youth Soccer Academy. Both natives of Kampala, Ivan Kakembo and Henry Kalungi saw the need to establish a academy dedicated to giving orphans from Kampala slums a way to obtain a basic education while developing leadership skills and values through soccer training.
Both Founders have vast experience as former and present professional soccer players and coaches; secure in the knowledge that play and sports training is a vital ingredient of childhood and can lead to a productive, successful adulthood .
In collaboration with sponsor parents, boys and girls from 3 years to 17 years attend pre-school or school acquiring education in reading, writing , math and basic sciences. Young girls are encouraged to learn craft skills with many enjoying a potential livelihood in this area
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Out Of The Slums and Into School
Schools in Uganda aren't free like so many cities and towns around the world.
Thousands of Kampala street children have no opportunity to go to school. They are the dis-advantaged, poor.. they have no one to speak for them. Many have been orphaned, their families killed by the past civil wars; Mom or Dad have become too ill from HIV epidemics and can no longer care for their children; many parents have died.
A sponsor family is life-saving to a street child. Sponsorship changes these young lives at once! From living on the streets to one of having good food, clean school uniforms and clothes, sanitary water and nourishing meals. Children 5 years and younger attend a pre-school. Older children start in grades appropriate for their level. With emphasis on sports training, especially soccer UYSA has coaches for both boys and girls.
Sponsorship is vital for a street child to GROW, PLAY and LEARN!.
Sponsorship details at http://www.uysocceracademy.org or contact us Visit with the children who eagerly want to go to school. Visit our sites today and join our Face book group: UYSAcademy Read more
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Thursday, November 29, 2018