Situations

The children of Uganda that arrive in the choir have several different reasons. We have some that are completely abandoned, no adult figure in their lives, and no one that ever follows up on them. Many of these children show up dirty, hungry and they have nowhere to go; we call these, “total orphans”. There are some that have lost both parents but have a distant relative that is also in desperate need and cannot take care of them. Others have lost one parent but in these cases it is just a matter of time before their other birth parent dies because of AIDS. Sometimes the children have both parents but due to financial stress the parents cannot support their children. In other cases some children come because their father deserts the family and in some of these cases the mums have no skills at all to take a job so they cannot help themselves.