The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in eastern Africa where agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing more than 80 percent of the workforce. The population of Uganda today is about 46 million people with the median age of 16 years. 

• Most Ugandans need to work two or three jobs simply to survive.
• Nearly 70 percent of Uganda's population lives on less than U.S.$1 a day.
• Medical care is scant, with only four doctors and 28 nurses per 100,000 people.

Our biggest needs are

• Having a permanent home and land where we can develop our own projects, like farming to provide reliable food and income.
• Having all children well-fed, worrying no more about food like it is today.
• Having clothes and sleeping accommodations such as blankets and mattresses for all children.
• Having all children go to school and achieve education and counseling to enable them to live a brighter future.

Feeding at Hearts of Hope Care Center-

Food is the most essential basic need of life. Here at the center we currently do not have any reliable source of food; we always get food from your donation you give to us. Sometimes we only take a meal a day or even sleep hungry in-order to utilize the food we are given by friends. Help me feed a child daily, a child can eat three meals a day at only $2.

Sleeping and accommodation-

We are currently renting an unfinished 3 room house at $150 per month in Nkanaga village, Mpigi. Due to the increasing number of children at the center each day, and yet we don't have a reliable source of income, we really don't have bedding materials and most of the children sleep on papyrus mats. You can be helpful to us by donating a blanket or a mattress to any of the lonely life.

Right now, Kitoogo and two other volunteers help take care of the children.

Dreams are really expensive to achieve especially when you have no one to hold you by hand and support you. Especially when you happen to be an orphan or born in a poor family. It's only by being hopeful, praying, and hard work that we can be successful.

1. Having three meals a day and each child content with the food served.
2. Having proper medical services for the kids to be healthy.
3. Education for every child at the center, which is now hard due to lack of funds.
4. We desire to register our organization as a non-profit in our country to help us work without limits.
5. We dream of having our own home and land where every child will enjoy oneself without limits and have no landlord to pay monthly with strict restrictions.
6. Having a sponsor who can visit and share with us the outside world.
7. Being successful in the future and becoming live examples and witnesses.

Kitoogo Fahad was raised by a foster mother in poverty, using beans that he grew to compensate for his school fees. He finished primary school with very high grades. However, secondary school was too expensive and far away, so Kitoogo had no hopes of going to highschool. He still prayed often, asking God to have mercy and grace, such that would send him to school like most of his friends. While they were at school, Kitoogo was working hard to earn a living. He tried to avoid them because he felt so ashamed for not being able to afford high school. 
As the year came to an end, his neighbors hosted a wedding and invited the director of Green Valley High School, Mr. Bogere Isma. Kitoogo knelt down in front of him and told him about his current situation. Kitoogo prayed a prayer he would never forget: “God it's you who has raised me. Though I don't know who my real parents are, you gave me a mother who has been caring for me. If you did that for me, why not help me go to a secondary school? Have mercy on me, Lord.” He says that prayer was the key to the person he is today. 
Mr. Isma said that he would cover Kitoogo’s school fees and give him a place to stay in exchange for Kitoogo's labor on the farm as compensation. Kitoogo felt like he was told to go to Heaven. He then started to study at Green Valley High School. After his first year there, his mother unfortunately died. With God’s mercy and grace, he was retained at the school as a Biology and Chemistry teacher when he graduated. It was from there that more opportunities came along and gave Kitoogo hope for his future.

Kitoogo started the Hearts of Hope Center in 2018 at the age of 20. He says, “I didn’t want to see any child have to live the kind of life I lived when I was growing up, facing different problems and overcoming them at a very young age. This always made me sad and inspired me to start caring for my fellows.“