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This year IDAC 2023 was held under the theme: "The Rights of Child in a Digital environment", which fits in the current world situation where the world is highly overlowed with much technological advancements.

Theme: "The Rights of a Child in a Digital environment", which fits in the current world situation where the world is highly overflowed with much technological advancements.

support education
Together we can
retain children
in school.

A Uniform, books & other school requirements are key to keeping them in school.

A Uniform, books & other school requirements are key to keeping them in school.

A Uniform, books & other school requirements are key to keeping them in school.

medical and health care support

Street life yields lots of health risks but with limited access to health care services worsened by stigma.

Street life yields lots of health risks but with limited access to health care services worsened by stigma.

Street life yields lots of health risks but with limited access to health care services worsened by stigma.

provide food for street-connected children

A food provision loosens street-connection, helps to drive change and better health in children's lives.

A food provision loosens street-connection, helps to drive change and better health in children's lives.

A food provision loosens street-connection, helps to drive change and better health in children's lives.

Rehabilitation and reintegration

A proven approach that helps children to discover their identity, reconcile with their families, attain a skill and become responsible and fruitful.

A proven approach that helps children to discover their identity, reconcile with their families, attain a skill and become responsible and fruitful.

A proven approach that helps street-connected children to discover their identity, reconcile with their families, attain a skill and become responsible and fruitful.

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The role CRO Uganda in restoration of children who are in street connected situations. 

What We're Dealing with

As many as 7,000 children between the ages of 7-17 years, wander on the streets of Mbale, Masaka, Lira and Jinja without care, parental guidance, shelter, and other basic needs of life.

These children have neither access to education nor skills training and are likely to grow up in poverty and constitute societal nuisance. 

CRO is concerned about the dilemma of children in street situation, the early exposure to abuses,the harmful effects of street life and therefore - how they can be provided with a better future.

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Our Mission is to enable Children living in street situations to discover their identity as children of God; reconcile them with their families; and empower them to become responsible and fruitful citizens.

We strive to contribute towards holistic child development of children in street situations to aid their Transformation into Responsible and Fruitful citizens in society.

 

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Our Approach

woniayeAyubuGranny could come back home drunk and beat us every evening, we could starve and our feet were infested with jiggers and no one came to our salvage, Ayubu recollects.

Ayubu was born in 2009 and he is the last born in a family of 3 girls and 2 boys with ancestral roots in Nanyunza village, Bufumbo, Mbale district. Unfortunately, both parents succumbed to the HIV/AIDS scourge leaving them with their elderly grandmother staying in a rented room in Bulago cell, Namakwekwe ward in the suburbs of Mbale.

Disaster struck in 2015 when Ayubu’s father – the only son to the granny passed on leaving her completely devastated and frustrated, hence turning to alcohol as a stress suppressor. Sadly, this just worsened the situation as she became so weak and ill that she could not look after the family.

Granny could come back home drunk and beat us every evening, we could starve and our feet were infested with jiggers and no one came to our salvage”, Ayubu recollects.

Ayubu became so thin day by day with a swollen stomach as a result of malnutrition. In this condition, he was persuaded by his peers to join the group of other children already on the streets scavenging for left overs [makombo] from garbage heaps. He jumped on to the wagon and slowly adopted used to bad street habits.

In a span of three (3) months, Ayubu was already picking scrap in order to earn a living. He could sometimes sleep on the streets as well as at home. “Surely, I was not happy with that kind of life and work because it hindered me from going to school”, he narrates.

CRO social workers found him picking scrap around Naboa road in Mbale town where he was assessed and enrolled in the rehabilitation class for psychosocial care support, learning and nutritional support.

While in the rehabilitation class, Ayubu’s has had great improvement in health, academics and social interaction. He is now a big man who can read and write the entire alphabet with a number of friends.

CRO social workers often visit their home and his granny has also been counseled to the extent that she has given up on alcohol. She does casual labor by washing serving dishes for people who operate local bars and kiosks and she is paid a wage that she uses to buy food and pay house rent.

  “I am forever grateful to CRO for every support given. At least I am assured of a meal and my education” says Ayubu. His aspires to be a driver.

Let's Celebrate Success 

How You Can Help

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Will you JOIN us transform the life of a child living on the streets?

Your one time, monthly or annual gift can contribute towards enabling a child access basic healthcare, nutrition, education,psycho-social care and a livelihood.

Your one time, monthly or annual gift can contribute towards enabling a child access basic healthcare, nutrition, education,psycho-social care and a livelihood.

Your one time, monthly or annual gift can contribute towards enabling a child access education, basic healthcare, nutrition, psycho-social care and a livelihood.

More Ways to Make a Difference

Sponsor a Child
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Volunteer at CRO
Advocate for Street Children
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Our Partners

Partner Status Update
This update highlights the key developments, changes, accomplishments and challenges that CRO has undergone and strategies being adopted to rebuild the organization so that together we can steer CRO to higher levels regard to service layering to street children and their families. See the report CRO Uganda Partner Status Update Report as at  July 2021

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