Joint Activities
1 .Annual Board and Staff Meeting: At the beginning of each year, CRO Boards of Directors & Staff meet together […]
Community Activities
A. Women and Men Clubs C.R.O runs four women clubs for the guardians and mothers of street children living in
Children’s Activities
1. Street visits & Day and Night Surveys
CRO social workers visit the streets often to identify children on the streets. Day and night surveys are also carried out on a quarterly basis to establish the number of part time and full time children on the streets. The causes and numbers of children on the streets are established and appropriate help is given to the children.
How to Get Involved
Support Self-help Groups (SHGs)
When being part of a self help group, one acquires a great sense of economic responsibility and a good understanding
Educating the Children
Children are supported with fees, materials and career guidance to equip them with knowledge, skills and values for self-reliance.
Nutritional Support
CRO provides the children with lunch which is most often posho (maize dish) and beans. Having the same kind food
Medical Support
Children from the streets usually get various complications ranging from injuries for First-Aid cases to advanced illnesses.C.R.O runs medical clinics
Vicky Mutonyi’s Testimony
Vicky is a total orphan. She recently became an orphan due to a natural disaster that took place in Nametsi her home area where both parents were buried by a landslide in 2009. Many other people were also buried alive and very few people survived.
Vicky and her brother survived because they were in school which was far from the incident.
Magret’s Testimony
My parents left their original home because of land problems in which they nearly lost their lives. They settled in Namatala slum in Mbale. After a short while, my father left us and we have never seen him again. We did not have anyone to buy food for us, so I escorted my mother to the town to beg.
Dorothy’s Testimony
I was very traumatized, because being the first girl in the family, I nursed my parents and watched them die one by one, including my little brother. Left with only grandmother, life was also not easy because she was aged and sickly. I once again took over responsibility to care for her.