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Civil wars and the scourge of HIV/AIDS have decimated a generation of parents and orphaned at least 2 million children [UNAIDS statistics] in Uganda alone which today has a total population of more than 30 million. Desperate, weak relatives unable to provide for children abandon them to the streets or the doorsteps of churches. Some newborn babies are even discarded in latrine pits or garbage dumps. Victory Child Care Project is designed to be a community faith based Christian organization working to support children especially those whose parents have HIV or died of HIV/AIDS. Its heart is therefore set to rescue and nurture young lives within a safe, loving environment and so enable them to become mature, healthy, educated, moral, independent, productive citizens. Its direct leaning on the church gives it an opportunity to directly work with such church-based HIV/AIDS programmes, with a realisation of the different programme gaps that have been noted in such programmes over the years. Over a long period of time, there has been very little response to HIV/AIDS by the church, yet there is need to meet this ever increasing demand of support and help from the victims of this scourge. V.C.C.P caters to the nutritional, medical, educational, and spiritual needs of abandoned children within monitored foster families, supported by an audited programme of sponsorship. Currently 437 children from all faith communities are fostered by V.C.C.P. relationships between child and individual sponsors are monitored and assisted by accountable project staff. |