LOVE UGANDA FOUNDATION ORPHANAGE IS AT RISK, 20 CHILDREN COULD LOSE THEIR HOME

At Love Uganda Foundation, we have always believed that a home is more than four walls and a roof. A home is where a child feels safe enough to sleep without fear. It is where laughter returns after trauma. It is where hope slowly grows, even after loss. Today, that home the place that shelters more than 30 vulnerable and orphaned children in Mukono is at risk.

We are writing this with heavy hearts, but also with honesty and hope. Love Uganda Foundation is currently facing an immediate crisis. We have fallen behind on rent payments for our children’s home, and we are now facing the possibility of eviction. This is not an easy message to share, but it is one we must share for the sake of the children who depend on us every single day.

For over years, Love Uganda Foundation has been a place of refuge for children who had nowhere else to go. Many of the children under our care have lost one or both parents. Others come from situations of extreme poverty, neglect, or abandonment. When they arrive at our doors, they often carry deep emotional scars, uncertainty, and fear about what tomorrow might bring. Over time, this home becomes their anchor a place where life begins to make sense again.

Within this home in Mukono, children wake up knowing they will have food to eat. They attend school with dignity. They receive medical care when they are sick. They are guided, disciplined, encouraged, and loved. For some of them, this is the first stable environment they have ever known. The idea that this stability could be taken away is heartbreaking.

The root of this crisis is not carelessness or neglect. Like so many organizations around the world, our work was deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our primary funding source, Love Uganda Safaris, was severely impacted when global travel came to a standstill. Tours were canceled. Partnerships paused. Income disappeared almost overnight. Despite years of commitment and resilience, the business has never fully recovered to its pre-pandemic strength.

Since then, we have done everything possible to keep the orphanage running. We have cut costs, stretched limited resources, and relied on faith and determination to move forward. Our team has worked tirelessly, often without knowing how the next month would be covered. Our founder, Robert Kyeyune, made an extraordinary personal sacrifice by selling his own vehicle just to ensure that rent, food, and basic needs could still be met. This was not a symbolic gesture it was a desperate act of love for the children.

Even with all these efforts, the rent arrears have continued to grow. The weight of this burden is now pressing down on us, and the threat of eviction has become very real.

If we lose this home, the consequences are devastating. 20 children would suddenly have nowhere to go. There is no backup facility waiting for them. There is no safe alternative lined up. For many of these children, returning to extended families is not possible due to poverty, instability, or unsafe environments. The streets are not an option. Temporary solutions do not provide the safety and structure these children need to heal and grow.

This is what keeps us awake at night.

Yet even in this moment of uncertainty, we hold tightly to the values that have guided Love Uganda Foundation for nearly two decades. One principle has always stood at the center of our work:

“We never give up till that one individual’s life under our care is impacted positively.”

That promise was not made lightly, and it was never meant to be convenient. It was meant for moments like this, moments when giving up might seem easier, but love demands that we keep going.

We are sharing this story not to seek pity, but to invite partnership. We believe that when people understand what is at stake, hearts can be moved and lives can be changed. Right now, we urgently need support to help us clear the rent arrears and to ensure we can meet the monthly rent going forward. Any help big or small brings us one step closer to keeping these children in the only home they know.

At this time, we humbly encourage anyone who feels moved to stand with us whether individuals, families, churches, organizations, or friends to offer support in any way they can. Whether through financial assistance, sharing connections, advocating on behalf of the children, or keeping us in prayer, every act of kindness truly matters. Sometimes, it takes just one person choosing to act to change the outcome for many.

As you read this, we ask you to pause and imagine a child you love a son, daughter, niece, nephew, or neighbor. Imagine them being told that the place they call home may no longer exist. That is the reality our children are facing. And yet, they continue to smile, to go to school, to dream about the future, trusting that the adults who care for them will not give up.

We refuse to give up on them.

Please keep the children of Love Uganda Foundation in your thoughts and prayers during this critical time. Share our story if you are able. Stand with us if you can. Together, we can ensure that these children do not lose their home and with it, their sense of safety and hope.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for walking this journey with us.