What we do
Holistic, church-anchored care.
Two coordinated streams of work meet children and youth where they are — and walk with them long after the first encounter.
Our programmes
Ongoing work, by who we serve
Our work with children
School fees, uniforms, books and scholastic materials.
Home visits, food and basic items, guidance and prayer in times of crisis.
Simple-language Bible teaching, games, sports and songs in a safe, loving space.
Our work with youth
Secondary, vocational and occasionally higher education.
Youth grouped into small collective enterprises to earn income.
Short, interactive teaching programmes and skilling workshops in remote communities.
Gospel music, worship and preaching in schools and communities.
The "why" context
The crisis we were born into
of children in Uganda live in multidimensional poverty.
of Ugandan children do not complete primary school.
children are vulnerable to harm, violence and abuse.
Note on our metrics: precise tracking systems are currently being rolled out to formally document individual beneficiary paths.
How you can help
Strategic, not isolated
We are committed to strategic sponsorship that invests directly in regional initiatives — education and healthcare — to build a sustainable foundation for the whole community, rather than funding isolated individual pathways.
Alongside this, we organise youth and caregiver families into structured savings and loan groups, building the habits and capital that move households from dependency to self-reliance.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
We strengthen and equip local churches as the long-term carers of vulnerable children, so that ministry continues well beyond any single programme or season. The church, not NSM, is the lasting structure of care.
We strengthen families to care for their own children and work alongside local leaders and child-protection structures, including Probation & Social Welfare Officers and community child-wellbeing committees. Families, not institutions, are where children thrive.
Our enterprises both create employment for our youth and help finance the ministry’s own activities, steadily reducing reliance on outside aid — turning our commitment to self-sufficient communities into our own operating reality.