projects

projects Promote Education

Children Activities Project

The children’s project engages children in activities that help contribute to improving their education and boosting their Christian life. The project also involves children in games to promote body physical fitness while allowing them their right to play.

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Women Economic Empowerment

Around 55-65% of Kampala’s 1.7 million inhabitants reside in slum areas resulting from rural urban migration, & the city is struggling to accommodate its infrastructure to this massive & growing need. Land tenure remains a controversial issue & persistent flooding creates health & logistical difficulties.

Prevent Violence Against Children projects

Uganda Transport Sector

Over the course of two years, Joy for Children has acted as a key instrument in raising to the World Bank serious human rights and social issues, including sexual violence and threats to girls and women, that were occurring during the construction of a World Bank financed project, the Fort Portal to Kamwenge Road Construction.

Ending Child Marriage projects

Girls Not Brides Uganda

In Uganda, 45% of girls are married before the age of 18, yet child marriage often goes unreported. Child rights advocates in the country are determined to do something about that and recently launched Girls Not Brides Uganda: the National Alliance to End Child Marriage.