News Updates

August 2007

McKenzie family moves to Uganda!

View the new powerpoint about the work that we are doing in Uganda. It shows the map of our location, the building plans, the farm, what we are doing about food, clean water, education, medical care, and a little bit about what the future holds.

March 2007
A team of volunteers from all over the USA will come and finish the water project started in Kampala and visit the land in Nakasongola. The water project will supply clean drinking water to 10,000+ people in a ghetto, 500+ students in a school and 400 orphans in a children’s home. The team will visit another ghetto in Kampala as well as a baby’s home and meet the 1st Lady of Uganda, Janet Museveni.

February 2007
A team was sent to Uganda to organize a water project in Kampala, and inspect the land for the orphan home/school and finalize necessary  paperwork for the NGO

January 2007
The orphan home/school land started being cleared

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Orphan Children Fund Mission & Vision

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." —Albert Schweitzer

ORPHAN/CHILDREN FUND is a 501(3)(c) organization here in the USA and a Ugandan NGO.  With millions of orphans worldwide, we will support existing orphan homes/schools and build new self-sustaining ones in various countries. The first of many will be in the Nakasongola District of Uganda.    

  1. We wish to fund projects worldwide that will enhance the lives of the world’s children while giving them a unique chance to thrive. In so doing, we will help save hundreds of thousands of lives by supplying malaria treatments and other medicines to children who have the need.

  2. We intend to supply preventative AIDS drugs to pregnant women and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Concurrently, we will help coordinate medical mission trips to different countries and establish close working relationships with existing children’s homes/schools and medical facilities.

  3. Most third world orphans receive only one meal per day, which usually consists of less than 400 calories. We intent to support feeding programs that make it possible for hungry children to have the food necessary to thrive. These programs greatly increase the life chances of these children and give them a better chance of reaching adulthood and living productive lives.

  4. Since Africa is mostly an agrarian culture, most farmers are only able to produce enough food, crops and livestock to feed their own families. With women doing 75% of the labor, we intend to help empower these women and make accessible educational and vocational tools with integrated resources needed which will improve their methods of production for consumption.

  5. Through these co-operative and integrated efforts, sustenance farmers can modernize production methods, increase yields and have surplus to sell after meeting family needs. Orphan/Children Fund will support local farmers and make resources available for the creation of farming co-ops, rice and energy production, which will help farmers grow more food for local consumption and for export purposes.

  6. Nets treated simply with insecticide can reduce the chances of getting malaria by 80%. We will supply nets to children in need through collaborations with existing grass root organizations and local churches. We will fund the contracting of individuals to spray inside homes and under eaves for mosquito eradication. This will reduce the $25 billion dollars cost that the world spends each year on the effects of malaria.

  7. Clean water will stop nearly 80% of all communicable diseases. Orphan Children Fund will support the drilling of water wells in areas where clean water is not available and help provide anti-bacterial water filters where needed.

  8. By being a part of a collaborative effort that works in conjunction with government officials, village leaders, families, social service agencies, and global initiative organizations, we can begin the change that will lead to children receiving education affecting life changes needed to thrive. In turn, they make a difference in their generation, communities, nation and the world.

We are there for all children regardless of race or religion and any other artificial criteria. We are committed to raising the funds needed, which will enable us to build more accommodations for homeless children, feed, clothe, educate and provide necessities to enable them have a better life, facilitate hope for the future and learn to believe. Our children and their families will become empowered through our programs so they become the generation of tomorrow. This will be a generation which learns to speak and see for those who cannot.

We intend to build new facilities worldwide as the funds become available which will allow each center a time schedule, which allows for optimum self-sustaining revenue.

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