Canaan Children's Home

Founder Pastor Isaac Wagaba 
& Ester Kilabo (orphan)

We realize that these children’s plight needed urgent attention... and not just to stand  aloof, and pity or sympathize with them, but that they must be helped in order to realize their human dignity.

"If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."  James 2:15-17

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:  to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."  James 1: 27NIV

• Canaan Children's Transit Center  is a registered Non-Government Organization (NGO) based in Buziika village -  Uganda, East Africa.

• The Center  was formed in January 2000 to respond to the increasing number of orphans whose parents have died of HIV / AIDS virus.

• Nearly three decades of civil wars, high crime rates and highest per capita rate of HIV / AIDS infection in Uganda -  among others has rendered Uganda a nation of orphans (at least missing one parent) - orphans beg on the street of Kampala, not for spare change or food, but for school fees. 

• In Uganda, primary and secondary school students must pay fees in order to attend either public or private schools.

• Most orphans in Uganda live with foster families who do well to send their own biological children to school, they simply cannot afford more.

• Most of the time, orphans are left without opportunity to attend school.  The primary function of African Child Foundation is to bridge the lives of these children from a hopeless situation to a constructive future.

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