Sponsor a Child in Uganda

Uganda, an East Africa country, comprises of 21 million children, translating to 46%of the total population. Many of these children are trapped in poverty and are not able to access education.

This situation has been made worse by Covid-19 pandemic, where some parents lost their business / jobs due to prolonged lockdown and the long closure of schools that exposed many children to abuse and exploitation.

According to UNICEF, around 1 in 10 school children did not return to school in January 2022 after schools were closed for nearly two year.

Out of the 91% children that enroll for primary school, 53% complete primary and only 34% complete secondary school.

Our sponsorship program supports children from poor and vulnerable backgrounds to enrol, keep in school and complete their education. We provide children with school fees and other school needs as well as supporting children and their families to becomes economically self reliant.

We focus on children from pre-school to higher institutions of learning – giving children a life time opportunity to support themselves, their families and the community where they leave.

We can only do this with support of people like you – who commit to contribute monthly, termly or yearly to ensure a child(dren) enrol, stay in school and complete their education.

How is our Sponsor a Child in Uganda program managed?

Our Community based social workers based in our three field offices in Lira City ( Northern Uganda, Fort Portal City (Western Uganda) and Kampala City for Central Uganda, working with local leaders and teachers conduct vulnerability assessment for children in dare need of support.

Children that qualify for sponsorship their background information is collected and securely kept on file for reference when we get a sponsor.

How to become a sponsor?

If you are interested in sponsoring a child, please send us an email expressing interest at sponsorship (at) joyforchildren (dot) org, our sponsorship team will get act to you with more information on how to join as a sponsor. Once enrolled, you will be given information of children that need sponsorship and other information about our sponsorship programme.

How much does it cost to sponsor a child?

Here is the list of categories to choose from and our team will be happy to give you more information about these categories where needed.

 20 US-$/ MONTH for primary school fees only

 30 US-$/ MONTH for primary school fees and requirements (books, school uniform, pens)

 30 US-$/ MONTH for secondary school fees

 40 US-$/ MONTH for secondary school fees and requirements

 70 US-$/ MONTH for secondary boarding school

 75 US-$/ MONTH for tertiary (vocational) education school fees.

 116 US-$/ MONTH for university tuition on average. However, tuition varies with course.

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