A dilemma no mother should have to face
Alex (not his real name), aged 13 years, was born to Apollo, now deceased, and Kyomuhendo Glorious of Bukora village, Kabale district. Alex was born Read More
Letters from Uganda is a blog from our UK directors and volunteers who are residing in Uganda for the next two years.
Ian and Eddie – two young boys in desperate need.
Ian (14) had to leave school due to lack of funds during P5 and Eddie (7) has never been in school. Ian and Eddie are the sons of James Kigegenye Read More
Alice regains her health and is going back to school!
Alice (not her real name) aged 13 years old was born to the late Kanyankole and Kyomuhendo Alice of Kagarama, Kabale district in Uganda. She dropped Read More
A safe haven for street children, by street children!
We have been told many times that street children are lazy, unintelligent, that they would rather beg from tourists than work and that they have no Read More
SOS – Children in risk of being returned to their abusive parent
A few weeks ago, as part of our Amasiko Street Children programme in Uganda, we picked up three young brothers, aged 6 to 12 years old, who were Read More
The Halfway House gets closer to being a reality, despite the rain.
After a busy week in which the long awaited rains arrived, the Amasiko Halfway House is getting closer to completion. The building, which once Read More
Good bye for now and thank you!
After eight hectic weeks, the team from Slovenia have won the race for the street children home. The Amasiko Halfway House in Kable, Uganda is Read More
The roof has arrived!
The long awaited roof for the Amasiko street children home has arrived which means we should be on schedule for the building construction. The Read More
The sprint to the finish continues – it’s touch and go!
Halfway through the last week of building the sprint to the finish continues - it's a three-way race between the amazing team from the University of Read More
A joint effort provides safety for three brothers
The Alongside Africa Uganda team were required to step in to prevent a tragedy yesterday and did so, with the help of a partner organisation, in fine Read More
Amasiko Halfway House is getting attention
On Tuesday this week we hosted visitors from the local Kabale administrative bodies including His Worship the Mayor, Chairam LC3, Probation Office, Read More
Time to review a very busy week
The team here in Kabale have had an incredibly busy week, so busy in fact that we haven't had a chance to post anything on the blog. We are also Read More
New hope as John and David starts school for the first time
Since arriving in Kabale I have been primarily involved in supporting the team building the new residential centre for the street children - ferrying Read More
Rugarama Hospital receives new donation from Alongside Africa
Alongside Africa programmes in Uganda does not run in isolation from the local community. A key partner to our work in Uganda is the Read More
Impressive progress on the the street children residential center
The new street children residential centre, the Amasiko Halfway House in Kabale, Uganda, has only been underway for two weeks but already impressive Read More