Lukwago CARE Foundation (LCF)

About us

Lukwago CARE Foundation (LCF), founded in 2011, is a fully legal Non Government Organization registered as Community Based Organisation by the government located in Uganda Kampala in Kireka town working to promote children rights, educating the girl child, ending gender based violence, ending child labor, empowering women, stopping modern day slavery, providing education to the children of Africa.

Mission
Our mission is to promote children's rights & contribute towards community development through promoting community empowerment programs to build self reliant God fearing Communities.

Vision
Our vision is to raise a generation of responsible, intelligent God fearing leaders

Our work
• We Work with Children's Homes Under Lukwago CARE Foundation which has now 49 children, we also empower women with Bisuness skills like Book Keeping, Saving & practical business management skills, we also have women groups that supply us with crafts and hand made mats which sell abroad and in return support women entrepreneurship in Uganda there by empowering women.
• The foundation also started a Football/ Soccer Program for our foundation, we play soccer with community children and the major aim is to keep them away from drugs and crimes with an aim of putting all their focus on football/ soccer also teaching them to be responsible citizens. After realizing that some of the children were not attending school, we decided to start a soccer Academy to groom their talent & keep them busy. The football or soccer Academy is called Kireka Football Club Academy and has now kids aged 5-15 whose future is now promising in sports.

Programs
• Sanitation Uganda: In this program, we go to community schools and we teach the children good personal hygiene measures, compound sanitation and health measures. We also give them free soap, toilet detergents and water cans for washing hands.
• Safe Hands: Through this project we help rescue young children working in stone quarries or mines, vending, plantations, from streets and also those working as house servants or maids. Community Outreach Mission: Under this project, we reach out to communities in urban and rural areas with the word of God. We teach them God's word and principles and bring them to Jesus Christ. After sharing the word of God with them, we give them Bibles and different christian material.
• Future Girls: Through this program, we hold community sensitization events and campaigns in which girls are taught self defense skills in case they are attacked, Personal skills, we also teach them ways in which they can value their woman hood and stay safe.
• Women Empowerment: Under this project, using the knowledge we have gained from University, we empower women in different fields with an aim of developing them and make them self reliant in a sustainable way. We teach them book keeping/ record keeping, savings culture, business Management Skills, financial skills, personal skills, we teach them to start businesses with the available resources, business accounts and also plan to provide them with financial or material assistance to start or keep them in business.
• Christmas Love: Through this program, we identify 100 families both in rural and slum/ghetto areas during the Christmas season and we give them free food, soft drinks, gifts and clothes.
• Malaria Free Uganda: Under this program, we provide free treated mosquito nets to families in rural and slum areas, we also teach them how to effectively use the nets and also teach them the dangers that may occur when they don't sleep under a treated mosquito net.
• Disability Is Not Inability: In this program, we organise reach outs in the community and schools for the disabled and we speak to them and encourage them to have self esteem in the public domain. In future we plan to help them start personal businesses to live a decent sustainable life.
• Skills For Refugees: Through this project, we identify areas where refugees are and we carry out 3 weeks training programs in Counseling, computer skill, self discovery and business management skill.
• Youth Empowerment: Through this program, we help yous to discover their ability and potential. We teach them how to identify opportunities in their communities, how to create new opportunities, how use the existing opportunities and also how turn ideas into reality, currently we are also training the young youths with soccer skills with hope & confidence that one day they will be international soccer stars. We train them computer skills and business management skills.

Lukwago Godfrey is the Founder and the Operations Manager of Lukwago CARE Foundation (LCF).

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