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Jun 19, 2020, 10:20 AM
Because his mother lives and works far away in Kenya, Boniface has lived with his grandmother Mary during term-time since he was a little boy attending Child of Hope nursery. He is now in secondary school and often visits his mother in the holidays, but Coronavirus has put paid to this for the past three months.
Jun 8, 2020, 11:43 AM
Young Tom was shocked to find out how tough it is right now for the pupils of the Child of Hope School in the Namatala slum in Uganda. He wanted to his bit to help and decided to 'Jump for Hope’.
Jun 1, 2020, 2:37 PM
Ebay is helping charities like Child of Hope raise vital funds – by encouraging people to sell their unwanted items as they declutter their homes during the lockdown.
May 29, 2020, 11:30 AM
Thank you again to everyone who has generously donated to our emergency appeal to support slum families through the coronavirus crisis. To date we have received £54,344, which is helping many hundreds of slum families survive through a long period of total lockdown. We will continue to support them until the crisis and its after-effects are over.
May 18, 2020, 11:55 AM
It is the rainy season in Uganda when people are digging and planting their gardens. But with the Covid-19 lockdown, our farming project for mums is on hold...
May 13, 2020, 3:25 PM
Running off into the distance is six year-old Ezra, who ran his first-ever 5K to help slum children and their families during the Covid-19 lockdown - and raised £2,000! That was amazing and has helped our emergency appeal overall total to reach over £42,000.
May 11, 2020, 12:04 PM
One of our primary teaching assistants started a small business while stuck at home to sustain the small basic needs of her family – every morning she fries and sells a local snack of cassava chips.
May 7, 2020, 3:05 PM
One good thing about homes being very close together in the Namatala slum is that kids aren’t prevented from playing with their close neighbours during Uganda’s current lockdown.
May 5, 2020, 11:39 AM
Here in Namatala, most of the active men (who normally work as casual labourers) cannot now earn money on a daily basis to feed their families. Most of the active women have small businesses. But right now, nobody can work and all of the women’s businesses are at a complete standstill.
Apr 27, 2020, 11:10 AM
Six year-old Ezra is running further than he has ever run before – all to raise funds for slum kids and their families in Uganda during the Covid-19 crisis.