Without doubt one of the greatest crises facing contemporary and future Uganda is the fate of a rapidly increasing population of orphaned children, who represent the third shock wave of the AIDS pandemic. The first wave was triggered by a rising incidence of HIV infections followed by the second wave, AIDS deaths.

Children under the age of five years die from preventable and treatable causes, and most of these deaths are directly caused by illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and measles or indirectly caused by HIV/AIDS. Malnutrition, poor hygiene and lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation contribute to more than half of child deaths in Uganda. 
FRF’s Child Sponsorship Program impacts the lives of orphans and other vulnerable in Masaka; trying various approaches to break the cycle of poverty in their lives.

Home Sweet Orphanage; it’s a place where joy is away of life, where learning is the highest aim, and where love is the ultimate goal.

Children are taught about health and hygiene, and they develop important life skills, and our educational approach is non-formal, often teaching the children through interactive play, sometimes as simple as drawing pictures in the dirt.  By involving in child participation, enables us to give them choices; we build bridges of trust so that every child has the opportunity to strive once they venture into the world.

Consider supporting one of these children. For only $ 35 a month, your donation will provide them with food, clean water, medicine, clothing, education materials. Experience the pure joy of knowing that you have made a difference NOW! 

Rights to Education Program
People everywhere, but particularly in developing countries, are struggling with similar overwhelming problems: hunger, homelessness, rapid population growth, unemployment, violent crime, poor health, the preventable deaths of millions of children, widespread environmental degradation, and education systems inadequate for countries’ needs and people’s aspirations.

Children’s access to education and development has hampered due to violence and exploitation, both inside and outside their families, this is true among orphans and other vulnerable children, in particular girls. The reasons why they miss out on educational opportunities includes; no value to education, household duties, the cost of education, lack of infrastructure and resources, impacts of HIV/AIDS, and the insignificancy of the Universal Primary Education School, which is subjected to child dropouts.

FRF’s Rights to education program, ensures that human rights of children and young people are fought for, basing with the provision of human rights law guarantee of children and youth.

"Everyone has the right a standard of living adequate for ... health and well-being.... Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children ... shall enjoy the same social protection.... Everyone has the right to education...." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 25 and 26

And the children act, chapter 59, section Part II Rights of the child, Laws of Uganda.

Education is vital to both a child’s physical and intellectual development. It enables children to develop skills and knowledge, improve their livelihood and earn potential during later stages of their lives. Education also contributes significantly to improvements in health, and helps reduce their risks and vulnerabilities.

Help us reduce educational marginalization among the most vulnerable.

Women Empowerment Programs
Ugandan women produce roughly 80% of agricultural output; yet they have less access to education, business credits and other routes to advancement than men. Throughout their lives, they perform a triple role: reproductive work (including frequent childbearing and responsibility for the care of the household); productive work (often irregular, highly physically burdensome, and for extremely low pay); and community work. Gender-based discrimination occurs within each of these roles. They are the most frequent users of health services, but when those services are inadequate, they suffer disproportionately. Today, with the face of AIDS in Uganda, they are the victims of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

FRF’s Women Empowerment Programs focuses to empower vulnerable women and girls as victims of poverty to improve their way of lives. With our extended understanding of women empowerment to promote sustainable change in their lives, FRF is involved in food security projects, through improving farming practices; Aids awareness through drama groups, gender violation to fight against exploitative social practices; and economic empowerment.

“Women's development is considered key to development a community and the nation at large. There’s no reason why they walk behind men. They need to walk side by side!”

Help to develop communities by empowering vulnerable women.

Family Capacity Building
People living in poverty are caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and ill health. Poverty causes health problems and equally ill health is a leading cause to poverty. Due to the extreme poverty faced by many orphans and other vulnerable children, their families and their communities, for immediate solutions we’ve established income generating activities to increase the income of our target groups. Most especially in agriculture, to ensure food security, where a household always has both physical and economic access to enough food for a productive and healthy lives. Constructing water wells for the provision of clean and safe water. We further look forth to see that more developmental structures are built, colleges, health centers, resource center and others.

Sponsor a vulnerable family
Families available for sponsorship are chosen by the communities we work in.  The FRF program relieves the stress on these communities by assisting the poorest in the village that depend on their neighbors for food and shelter thereby improving the lives of all the people.

Donate $67 today (or $ 804 for a full year) to start your sponsorship.  A family will be assigned to you immediately. As a sponsor, you are kept up to date frequently, and can develop a personal relationship with your sponsored family through FRF
Please consider helping a family in desperate need today.

AIDS Awareness Program
Uganda has long been regarded as the frontline in the War against HIV in Africa, and it is here that many of the greatest victories have been won. The determination of Ugandan communities and the power of education has empowered an entire generation. As a result, Uganda is one of the few African countries where HIV prevalence has declined steadily (down to an estimated 5% of the adult population).

FRF campaigns to continue encouraging the Ugandan struggle against HIV by working to support orphans and families affected by the virus. Our comprehensive strategy focuses on mobilizing local, religious, group leaders at the grassroots level to effectively educate about AIDS, teach abstinence and marital fidelity, fight stigma, and care for those affected by AIDS, in particular the orphans.

We believe the combination of AIDS Education through mass media, peer education and at school; and Counseling as the appropriate method, to provide help and support to both none and the infected, hence enable them to understand and to know basic information about HIV and AIDS; and also help to prevent the onward transmission of HIV.

“Most young people become sexually active in their teens, and by the time this occurs they need to know how to prevent themselves becoming infected with HIV.”

Join the campaign to fight the epidemic.