Education
Across Uganda, 4 in 10 children aged 3-5 are enrolled in a pre-primary education program. This age is a critical time for children to develop a strong foundation, and many families do not have the luxury of owning colorful books and other educational games and resources that expand their child's reading, critical thinking, and creativity.
Moreover, 50% of Ugandan children experienced the world's largest school shutdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, keeping them out of school for 22 months and putting them in increasingly vulnerable situations.
Economic Empowerment
One of the greatest challenges people face in Uganda is unemployment. Widespread poverty is the result of economic hardship and people struggle to find adequate sources of income. This leads to problems in the family, health challenges, children not attending school, and idle youth resorting to illegal behaviors. As of March 2025, we launched a learning center which provides skills training to unemployed individuals, such as youth who have dropped out of traditional school and single mothers. Additionally, we have supported HIV+ individuals through our skills training and social support.
The new center includes the skills training workshop, a new library and other spaces to facilitate additional educational and artistic programs. But we need your support in order to keep it going, such as with rent and maintenance fees, teacher compensation, materials and more! By empowering just one individual with a skill and steady income, we are not only improving their lives, but changing the outcome of their future and their family's future.
New Learning Center located in Kirinya, Kampala
2025 & 2023 Skills Training Workshop: Sandal Making
Young moms participating in the skills training course took advantage of free child care as their kids hung out in the library.
More on School Sponsorship:
For the past two academic years, since 2024, Lift One Kin has sponsored the education of four children, two in a village known as Kasawo and two residing in a Kampala slum.
Jamil has recently begun Secondary 1 (which is 7th grade in the U.S. system) and has consistently been performing in the top tier of his class. We are so proud of him! When we first met Jamil in the village, his dad had recently passed away and he currently lives with his grandma. His dad had been the household provider, hustling to pay Jamil's school fees until his passing. Because of how his father died (possibly stress/brain aneurysm), Jamil has said he hopes to become a doctor and study the brain.
Malik is in primary 1 (kindergarten in U.S. terms). What’s amazing about Malik is that since Lift One Kin’s conception in 2022, Malik has participated in our initial programs, attending Easter outreaches and literacy initiatives, always demonstrating a respectful, joyful attitude since the day we met him. Unfortunately, during our research for sponsorship, we’d often find him at home alone or playing in his neighborhood slum during the weekdays. He and his family were SO excited and gracious upon hearing the news that we would sponsor him. Since then, he has been a dedicated young student whose parents have also become involved in his education.
We also sponsor “little John”, another child from the village of Kasawo as well as Agena Jessi, a young girl from a Kampala slum.
As we continue to build relationships with these families, support the invaluable education of these children and enhance our sponsorship program, one of our goals is to reach more female students as there is a significant inequality/imbalance of education between girls and boys in Uganda. We also want to ensure that we have the funds that allow us to collaborate with families and schools by placing students in high-achieving, safe schools rather than any government school, which tend to be very overcrowded and have other challenges.
To give to this program, visit Give Monthly | LiftOneKin.
Malik and his mother, Kampala UG
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