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Sponsoring Children in Uganda: James’s Story

Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, play, and thrive. Yet for many children living in Uganda's informal settlements, poverty and disability create barriers that make these basic rights difficult to realize.

International Day of Play: Championing Children's Right to Learn, Grow, and Play.

Stolen Childhoods: The Ongoing Fight Against Child Labour in Uganda and Across the Globe

On 12th June, the world commemorates the International Day Against Child Labour under the theme, “Red Card to Child Labour: Fair Play for Children, Decent Work for Adults.” The day provides an opportunity for governments, civil society organisations, the private sector, the media, and communities to reflect on the millions of children worldwide who continue to spend long hours in harsh and hazardous working conditions, often at the permanent expense of their education, health, safety, and childhood.

How Joy for Children Uganda Supports Vulnerable Children in Kampala

Across Kampala’s informal settlements such as Bukoto and Mulago, many children grow up in environments marked by poverty, poor sanitation, overcrowding, and limited access to healthcare and social support. In these communities, even minor illnesses can quickly become serious due to limited financial resources and inadequate access to medical care.

A Conversation on Rights, Access to Justice and Action for All Women and Girls in Uganda.

Where Injustice Lives; What Access to Justice for All Women and Girls in Uganda Looks Like.

The Hidden Impact: How Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Negatively Affects Children

The loud slaps and harsh blows ring loud inside Jacob’s (not real name) mind, they even follow him to his paper-thin bed on some nights. Tonight, his mother and father are having another altercation. The neighbors in the other makeshift houses are opening doors and standing out in groups discussing their home situation in very loud whispers, but not making any move to help. Even Jacobs friends around Busia town have parents that fight at home, but he doesn’t think it normal.

National Online Symposium to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child 2025

In commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child 2025, the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development (MGLSD), in collaboration with civil society organizations including Joy for Children Uganda (JFCU), Concern for the Girl Child, AHF Uganda Cares and others, convened a National Online Symposium. The event provided a platform for girls themselves to articulate their experiences, offer leadership, and engage in shaping strategies under this year’s theme: “The Girl I Am, The Change I Lead: Girls on the Frontlines of Crisis”.

The role of community systems strengthening in Pediatric HIV prevention

About one million and four hundred thousand people are currently living with HIV in Uganda. Of all new infections, 29 percent were among adolescent girls and young women despite this group only representing 10 percent of its population (Uganda Aids commission 2021). Young mothers living with HIV have multi-layered issues to manage, including pregnancy, childbirth and parenting, alongside lifelong antiretroviral therapy, preventing HIV transmission to their infant, potentially caring for a child with HIV, mental health challenges and often HIV associated stigma and discrimination. Young mothers and their children are at greater risk of HIV infection as well as poverty, violence, exclusion, poor education, and early childhood developmental delays. A high number of children and pregnant and lactating young women living with HIV are still unaware of their HIV status or are not able to start or continue their treatment. Various barriers are hindering them from accessing or to continue accessing services they need to live healthy lives or to ensure children are born and remain HIV free (WHO/ UNICEF, 2021).