History & Action
| NEED | |||
| Civil wars, terrorist groups and the scourge of HIV/AIDS have decimated a generation of parents and orphaned over 2 million children (U.N. AIDS statistics) in Uganda alone (total population 25 million). Desperate, weak relatives unable to provide for children abandon them to the streets or the doorsteps of public buildings and churches. Some newborn babies are even discarded in latrine pits or on garbage dumps. |  |
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| HISTORY & RESPONSE | |||
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A visit by Paul Thomas (Chaplain to South Wales Fire and Rescue Service) to the Uganda Fire and Rescue Service H.Q. Kampala in 2003 coincided with a local fire fighting team’s return from an incident where they rescued two babies, who had been dropped into a pit latrine in an outlying village. Sadly these babies died and Paul shared in the fire crew’s distress.
He informed Pastors Joseph and Freda Serwadda (Senior Pastors of Victory Christian Centre, Kampala, Uganda) about this tragedy and the vision of Tŷ Cariad (Welsh for house of love) was conceived. |
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| VISION | |||
| To rescue and nurture young lives within a safe, loving environment and so enable them to become mature, healthy, educated, moral, independent, productive citizens. We are unashamedly Christian and Biblical in our actions, and therefore accountable to the Highest Authority. Children are the future of all nations. |  |
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| STRATEGY | |||
| To complement indigenous, sustainable, child-help programmes in East Africa.
Our Tŷ Cariad home in the village of Namugongo currently shelters 32 young children and is a prototype for houses to be built within existing villages, to avoid social/cultural dislocation and supervised by vetted accountable surrogate parents.
Victory Child Care Project (VCCP) caters to the nutritional, medical, educational, and spiritual needs of abandoned children within monitored foster families, supported by an audited programme of sponsorship. Hundreds of children from all faith communities are cared for by VCCP. Relationships between children and individual sponsors are monitored and assisted by accountable project staff. |
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