Sometimes, children are forced to work due to financial pressures at home. This can lead children to run away onto the streets to work. Sometimes children at home get beaten when their… Read more

This is the story of John, one of the children Brenda has worked with recently.

Growing up without love

My name is… Read more

Life on the streets

When you meet a child on the street, you can tell if they are new to the streets or have been… Read more

This is the story of John

John is 11 years old. He began living on the streets after some misunderstandings with his mother. At first,… Read more

2020 was not the year any of us expected. We have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a multitude of ways, where our normal way of life was no longer… Read more

A stolen childhood

Hope* is an orphan who grew up with her stepfather after losing her biological parents at just three years old. Her new stepmother forced her to… Read more

A broken family

Growing up with step-parents can be hard if there is contention between the parents.

Jonah’s* story starts when he got separated from… Read more

Patience* is 12 years old and lives in a slum area of Jinja under the care of her grandmother, renting a small muddy house. Patience is the sixth child in their family… Read more

This is a story of a young boy from Uganda, told in his own words, about why he left home and felt he could never go back.

Setting the scene

Social workers and psychologists have always been interested in how parents affect their child’s development, but finding the definate cause and effect links between the specific actions of parents and the later… Read more