Current Projects

CKS is impacting the war traumatised children and youth of Kitgum Uganda through these daily activities on several project sites under supervision of our on-site Director, Irene Gleeson; Chief Administrator, John Paul Kiffasi; and 400 Ugandan teachers, nurses, builders, drivers, counsellors and cooks.

1 • PRIMARY SCHOOLS:
Childcare Kitgum Primary School, Childcare Amida Primary School, Childcare Padibe Primary School & Childcare Orom Primary School (under construction)

8,000 pupils receive daily:

FREE Breakfast and lunch for every pupil plus malnourished feeding program
FREE Education Primary 1 to Primary 7
FREE Medicine and Clinic sees 200 orphans
FREE clothing and blanket distribution
FREE waterbores and bathing facilities

2 • VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE:
Training youth and ex-child soldiers for self-sufficiency

Headmaster Alfred Komagum
1,500 students daily trained (cost-free) as:

Builders
Carpenters
Office Workers
Tailors
Farmers

3 • CHILDCARE COMMUNITY CHURCHES:
Providing counseling and practical social services

Counsel escaped abductees
Visit hospitals
Rebuild widow's houses
Youth Celebrations
Football Team Choir

4 • CKS FM RADIO & CULTURAL ARTS STUDIO
Giving war traumatised children a voice

Community education
Indigenous Christian music
Debates and preaching
Developing creativity in war-oppressed community through Dance, Drama, Art and Literature

5 • GLORYLAND JUNCTION AIDS HOSPICE

60 beds (free care and medicine for patients)

Children released from nursing dying parents
Comfort care for terminal AIDS patients
Especially for infected nursing mothers - infants given milk formula
AIDs orphanage for infant
Volunteer medical staff welcome
Christian music
Flower gardens
Miracles expected

6 • WATER BORE PROVISION

14 water bores installed by CKS for schools and communities