Partner: TOUCH

The Outreach to Unfortunate Children’s Hurts

Sara Sebyala saw the need in her city, Kampala, Uganda – children without food or shelter, households headed by eight-year-olds – children in need of hope. She knew she had to do something to alleviate their suffering. She started in 1997, with one child named John, whom she took into the home she shares with her husband.

When the number of children Sara had taken into her home grew to twenty-five, her church helped build temporary structures for classrooms, and Sara started TOUCH (The Outreach to Unfortunate Children’s Hurts).  Today,  TOUCH has over 400 students in primary and secondary classes.  Sara is currently able to provide one meal a day, and some of their most basic needs.  The children are in school for up to twelve hours a day, because the only other place for them is the streets.

If you ask these children what they want to be when they grow up, they answer ambitiously with “doctor,” or “lawyer, “ “pastor,” or “president.” You can see in their eyes that they really do have a hope that they can make it.

Where does the hope come from? To these children, the face of hope is Sara and the dedicated teachers at Calvary Temple School. That hope becomes tangible when it arrives in the form of food and shelter,  a pair of shoes, a new toothbrush, education, and medical care. That hope, and a child’s unlimited potential, is released through friends who will equip Sara to care for them.

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