Watoto Child Care Ministries

The project has its own children's villages that consist of several single family dwellings constructed to provide shelter for eight children and a housemother. The organisation aims to give each child is given the opportunity to become a unique individual. The children's development is dependent upon love, care and spiritual discipleship given by housemothers.

Every week, women from the local ministry visit the home to deliver food, encourage the mothers and provide attention to the children. Men also visit the children regularly, providing prayer and family devotions, arranging sporting activities and special outings for the children. Weekly Bible clubs are held at each home. Children from the neighborhood are invited to join Watoto for a activities, including singing, Bible stories, games and crafts. Watoto also assists relatives who care for parentless children in their extended families by providing education, clothing and food.

Since 1994, the organisation has run the Watoto Children's Choir which tours globally. Accompanied by a small team of adults, Watoto's performances are a blend of native African rhythms, contemporary gospel music and ethnic dance. The choir offers the children who sing in the choir an opportunity to express their identity as children who have lost their parents to AIDS and to express the hopes they have for their lives. Videos, DVDs, CDs and cassettes of their recordings are available on their website.

The home offers opportunities for volunteers from around the world who wish to visit them and participate in building and other forms of practical assistance.

Children, HIV/AIDS, Rights.

To save the lives of the children, Watoto Child Care Ministries focuses on what they consider the essential needs of the orphans, by providing food, shelter, education, health care, family life and family values. The programme organisers believe that this will have a lasting impact upon the nation of Uganda. Its goal is to equip the children with the necessary moral values and life skills that will enable them to make a significant and lasting impact on the future of their country.