Bootim Foundation is a non-profitable organisation established in Uganda to restore the lost hope for the vulnerable children by providing them with basic needs like shelter, food, health care, education, clothes, clean water, etc, as well as fighting for their rights.
Our strategy is to build a restoration home for the vulnerable children where we can provide them with the mentioned basic neeeds. We also deep hunt the reasons causing the vulnerability of such children and help them re-unite with their families, obtain education, and get access to better health care.
In the previous times, street children were no more than a footnote in Uganda & africa. But today, street children have become a major issue. Tomorrow, if the present trends continue, they could be a blight on urban civilization. For us in Africa, tomorrow is already here. Street children are not only a blight on urban civilization; they pose a serious obstacle to overall socio-economic development in our continent.
Of all the agents capable of doing something about the problem of street children, the state is perhaps best situated to tackle the issue. However, part of the tragedy of street children is the way African governments have abandoned them to their fate.
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly clear that many African governments of countries where the problem is most acute have been unable to give it the attention it deserves, and have unintentionally contributed to its continuation. While it is true that most governments have formulated child development policies, set up departments and sometimes ministries dealing with youths and some dealing with women and children, effective action to address the problem is yet to be taken.
Like the government, the community also stand accused of failing to address the problem of street children. We as individuals and as a society have failed to live up to our responsibilities as parents and as custodians of the young. The community tends to hide its head in the sand hoping that the problem will go away. Unfortunately the problem is not going anywhere, but increasing to alarming proportions.
A question that we must increasingly ask ourselves is how long must it take before the problem of street children attracts the proper attention that it deserves? How many more children must first take to the streets or die because of lack of care on our streets before we can acknowledge that the problem of street children is a very serious one which is likely to affect all of us? The probable answers, given present day conditions in Africa, is that the problem of street children has to grow to enormous proportions before it gets the attention it deserves! This is a tragedy that cannot remain ignored any longer.
There is little likelihood of finding a lasting solution to the problem of street children without involving the street children themselves. Very often the tendency has been to formulate plans and strategies for children without consulting them. Families, the government and the community at large must seek out the street children and have a meaningful dialogue with them. We must speak and listen to the street children if we are to help them. We must find out more about their problems and prospects and how we can best help them. Living on the streets is difficult and hazardous and therefore anyone able to survive must be listened to and helped. It is without doubt that street children are resourceful and determined people who must be given a chance. The initial step must be hearing their voices and cries for help. On the other hand, the street children themselves must raise their voices to ensure that their plight is known. They must fight for their rights and we as a community must help.
We are on a mission to restore the lost hope of vulnerable children. We want to save our young generation from living a hard to tell life.
Give them a helping hand and listen to their stories. Every vulnerable child has a story behind, as to why he/she left home.
We collaborate with local authorities, organisations, and individuals to identify and report to us an vulnerable children
We give them health food in order to balance the diet and grow up healthy, not as before. They've been starving from the streets and eating gabage food.
They have been taking contaminated water that made them to be sick always. We give them clean purified water and treat the disease they currently have.
We give them education and hands-on skills for life. The basic education they must have missed from their parents. We become parents and educate them.
There are always reasons as to why these vulnerable children ar how they are. Thats what we find out, and pause a solution for it. Like poverty, etc.
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This project located in Kisenyi Kampala slum will provide meals to over 640 children on the streets & provide support on their education and wellbeing. In addition, the project will seek to offer quality education remotely through providing revision papers to the children. The children are unable to access school facility as a result of poverty and other related factors that might have pushed them out of their homes.
This project is intended to help create a restoration for 1070 kids who are currently living on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, give them adequate healthcare, and help them live a happy fruitful and meaningful life. The Kisenyi slum in Kampala, Uganda has the most growing number of street children. It is reported that, over 30 kids come on that street on a daily basis. Those who come, don’t go away, and that has made the number of kids on that street to drastically increase, hence something must be done.
This project will provide clothes to over 214 vulnerable children living on the streets of Kisenyi Kampala Uganda only once in a month for the next five years after 2022. This area has the largest number of street children. The project is scheduled to run every month. Providing both clothes and footwear to vulnerable children living on the streets.
We coperate with local authorities, individuals, and community based organisations to discover, vulnerable children in our society.
When we discover a vulnerable child, we take the child and look after the child in our restoration center.
We collect donations from good samaritans and help provide all the children's basic needs in the restoration center, including food, health care, education, clean water, physical labour, clothes, etc.
Give the vulnerable children shelter, food, and health care, and education to support his/her future.
We conduct research to help find out causes of children vulnerability and set up fundamental objectives to end such causes and reduce children vulnerability.
Build a restoration center for vulnerable children, as a shelter for homeless kids especially those on living on the streets
Medical facilities are responsible for the health of vulnerable children. To keep them health and live a disease free life.
Healthy food and clean purified water are needed to help kids grow healthy with a disease free body, & leave gabage food.
Education is required as children won't stay in the restoration center forever. Education is to help them work diligently out there.
The task of helping street children seems herculean. Clearly it cannot be achieved simply by injections of money, or by merely passing laws. Mere material improvement trickling down to the community level will not help either: All these efforts may even aggravate matters unless they are accompanied by programs which will allow children to develop their potential and by a softening of punitive attitudes towards street children by authorities.
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The new imposed laws on helping street children are now a barrier in extending our help to street children. Over the years, we've been helping vulnerable children from the streets as we prepare & solicit support for building a restoration center for vulnerable children living on the streets of Kampala. However, we're no longer allowed to do this due to the new laws imposed by the government over helping street children. We hereby call for an accelerated support towards building a restoration center to accommodate these children that are being driven out of the streets of Kampala, Uganda.
Read MoreIt's quite absurd to treat street children like thugs, thieves, or troublemakers in our society. We all know that these children never wanted to spend their lives on the streets of Kampala. However, due to specific reasons, they find themselves with no choice other than living and spending their life on the streets in hope of getting a little better life.
Read MoreStreet children tend to fall between various jurisdictions, with neither providing real assistance. The emergence of the issue of street children may itself point to gaps in coverage. Typically, each Ministry may have far more urgent problems on its hands than street children, and none will be prepared to take overall responsibility. Departments tend to determine and shape their programs in accordance with the policies they are given. These policies are usually aimed at aiding families and are rarely flexible enough to cope with exceptions.
Read MoreThe traditional response to street children by most governments in Africa and elsewhere has been repression. Street children arrested for a minor theft or roaming around are often held in custody until somebody can be found to take responsibility for them. This can take weeks or months. Detention in harsh circumstances is the common lot of street children everywhere. This tells us more about the real attitude of governments than any examination of national legislation.
Read MoreMany children run away to the streets to avoid violence and abuse in the family. It is now a common occurrence to hear of terrifying stories of abuse of children by parents or family members. Children as old as three are increasingly being sexually abused, starved and ignored by the family and community at large. It is today not surprising to see parents or guardians using force or threats to send their children out to beg, steal and work to earn income for the family.
Read MorePoverty is a major cause of street children. Africa is today a continent characterized by extreme poverty. It is poverty that is resulting in children being forced to work on the streets to support themselves and their families. It is poverty that is also causing many families to break-up, with parents being unable to support their children. It is rural poverty that is making rural populations including children to move to urban areas with the hope of a better life. Poverty causes malnutrition and poor health and reduces a family's ability to work, thus creating poor conditions for children.
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