The Center for Child Advocacy and Life Planning (CCALP) began in 1999 as a community based initiative to support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Nansana village in the Wakiso district of Central Uganda. It began with four children orphaned in the Nansana Community, left alone with no support from an adult. Seeing their suffering, six friends set up a small community based organization to help these children survive. They were Mr. Segawa Ephraim, Mr. Mukasa Job, Nakabuuka Gladys, Mr. G.W. Kabuuka, Mrs. Jane Kabuuka and Mr. Musinguzi Johnson. In 2001, a small nursery school was set up in a garage to provide education to such children in the community. This school was named Nansana Community Primary School. Supplies such as school uniforms, books, pencils and pens, as well as school fees were paid for by community volunteers. As time went on, more and more children were left orphaned, as HIV/AIDS claimed countless lives in Uganda. The need to provide care and support to orphans became greater as the number of orphaned children grew literally by the day. In 2004, the CCALP program expanded to Sirimula Village in the Kiboga district. Beginning in 2005, friends from England, Canada, and the United States came as volunteers to the Center to support the school, work with the children, and help grow the organization. By around 2013 a steady stream of international volunteers found their way to the program and the Nansana Community Primary School to help care for, educate, and support the orphans and vulnerable boys and girls at the Centre. By this time approximately 200 of the 800 children were educated as well as provided with a home and their basic needs. The remaining 400+ children in the program attended the Nansana Community Primary School and 200 Extreme High school. In Nansana, approximately 120 of these children lived at the Centre where they received food, a home, education and emotional support from their 'extended family'. The remaining 280+ students who came to the Centre and attended school each day either lived with one or both parents in the community, or had been placed with guardians in the surrounding environs through the efforts of the program. Increasingly, the critical challenge was feeding the young people as they learned and grew and prepared to enter adult life.
The original team today
Mr Segawa Ephraim continues as Director and the children and young people call him “Uncle Segawa”. He works several jobs to raise funds for the schools as well as overseeing them. Segawa Ephraim has been a hero to thousands of children. The Reverend Kim Padfield Urbanik visited the schools and was inspired to nominate Segawa for the CNN Hero Award. She created the following video to support that nomination. Segawa speaks later in the video.
https://youtu.be/jyYqo09AnJk
Mr Kabuuka died recently. Mrs Jane Kabuuka is now elderly yet continues to bath and care for the younger children and help with cleaning at one of the schools. Segawa now lives with Mr Makusa Job and Nakabuuka Gladys. Mr Musinguzi Johnson left the project to works on a project of his own.
Michael Kantor
The primary fundraiser today was established by a US supporter Michael Kantor. Michael and I correspond and share information and frustrations! The biggest frustration is that there has been so little response. It has simply not provided the hoped for solid financial base for the program. I originally contacted Michael as part of my own “due diligence”. If you click on the link below and then on “Read More” there is a wealth of information about the program. I found Michael to be very careful and transparent fundraiser as you can see from his “Safety and Trust” note.
https://gofund.me/f5c538de
The original team today
Mr Segawa Ephraim continues as Director and the children and young people call him “Uncle Segawa”. He works several jobs to raise funds for the schools as well as overseeing them. Segawa Ephraim has been a hero to thousands of children. The Reverend Kim Padfield Urbanik visited the schools and was inspired to nominate Segawa for the CNN Hero Award. She created the following video to support that nomination. Segawa speaks later in the video.
https://youtu.be/jyYqo09AnJk
Mr Kabuuka died recently. Mrs Jane Kabuuka is now elderly yet continues to bath and care for the younger children and help with cleaning at one of the schools. Segawa now lives with Mr Makusa Job and Nakabuuka Gladys. Mr Musinguzi Johnson left the project to works on a project of his own.
Michael Kantor
The primary fundraiser today was established by a US supporter Michael Kantor. Michael and I correspond and share information and frustrations! The biggest frustration is that there has been so little response. It has simply not provided the hoped for solid financial base for the program. I originally contacted Michael as part of my own “due diligence”. If you click on the link below and then on “Read More” there is a wealth of information about the program. I found Michael to be very careful and transparent fundraiser as you can see from his “Safety and Trust” note.
https://gofund.me/f5c538de
