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 Welcome to our website. Stay Safe Children Foundation is a Community Based Organisation (CBO) supporting children and families in Kihihi, a town in rural south west Uganda, in particular street children, children with disabilities, child-headed households and other orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Our programmes aim to support the most vulnerable children and families in the community in a holistic way by providing material and emotional support; life skills; income generation to reduce poverty; education and training for future self-reliance.Kihihi is in a beautiful region of Uganda near to two national parks, Queen Elizabeth Park and Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest, famous as the home of half of the world's mountain gorillas. This is a conservation area of international importance situated on the Great Rift Valley near the borders with DRC Congo and Rwanda. It is a poor rural region with a subsistence economy that partly relied on forest resources until the local forests were awarded protected status in the mid-1990’s, and access was denied to local people. At the same time HIV/AIDS was taking the lives of young adults and parents leaving orphans and elderly relatives with no support. The AIDS epidemic continues to take many Ugandan lives. Families may be led by children who themselves have hardly experienced parenting, or by relatives who may have multiple orphans to care for as well as their own children . Children may reach adulthood without basic life skills, knowledge and guidance, a situation that we aim to address. Subjects around sexual health and adolescence are particularly important if we are to prevent the next generation suffering the same fate – but this time with even fewer grandparents and other adults to provide support. Our Objectives:
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