Sponsor an Orphan Today
When you sponsor an orphan child, you will connect personally with a boy or girl who will treasure the thought that you care.
Your sponsorship of $38 per month* provides life-changing opportunities in an orphan's life such as:
- tuition to attend or stay in school
- necessary, nourishing food
- medical care, which can save lives
- school supplies: uniforms, shoes, pens, books, etc.
Each orphan child’s photo below represents a real child who needs your help today.
* No administrative fees deducted. All support goes directly to each child. GuideStar Platinum Transparency certification. Click here for 2021 Annual Report.
Sponsor A Child
Angel Lamara
Angel is ten years old. She lost her mother in 2016 and now lives with her grandmother and thirteen other dependents. Her grandmother is trying hard to keep her and the other dependents in school by working as a casual laborer in other people’s farms and selling excess crops harvested from the garden but she is overburdened and has to spend all her meager income to meet the large family needs like food, home repairs, and medical expenses amongst others not to mention Angel’s education expenses.
Angel dream of being a nurse in the future because she loves taking care of sick people.
God can use you to help this vulnerable child achieve her full potential. Your sponsorship can help fill the faps and make a tremendous impact on her education and future.
Aloyo Innocent Trina
Trina is a very intelligent eight (08) year old girl with big dreams. She is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. Trina needs your support to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. Her parents lack the economic capacity to provide adequate care and support to her and her sibling, including meeting education expenses. Trina enjoys school, and she desires to pursue a career in nursing because she would love to take care of sick people in her family and the community. Your sponsorship and commitment will help keep trina in school and help her achieve her dreams
Rhoda Laker
Rhoda is a very intelligent nine (09) year old girl with big dreams. She is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. She needs your support to learn and be able to grow physically, mentally and spiritually. Her only caregiver is her grandmother who is overburdened and lacks the economic capacity to provide adequate care and support for all the children in her care including meeting education expenses.
Her desire is to pursue a career in nursing because she would love to take care of sick people in her family and the community. Your sponsorship and commitment will help keep Rhoda in school and help her achieve her dreams.
Ivan Obwona
Ivan is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with his parents, two brothers and a sister in Gulu Northern Uganda. He loves to help at home by sweeping the compound, fetching water and babysitting his little sister. Ivan enjoys school and he is currently in primary two where is favorite subject is integrated science.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing football with his friends; Ivan dreams of becoming a Medical Doctor when he grows up because he wants to help his community-fighting diseases such as malaria but his parents do not have the resources to provide adequate care and support for him and his siblings including meeting education expenses.
God can use you to help make Ivan’s dream a reality. Sponsor him today.
Gerrard Lubangakene
Ivan is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with his parents, two brothers and a sister in Gulu Northern Uganda. He loves to help at home by sweeping the compound, fetching water and babysitting his little sister.
Ivan enjoys school and he is currently in primary two where is favorite subject is integrated science, but he needs your help to continue.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing football with his friends; Ivan dreams of becoming a Medical Doctor when he grows up because he wants to help his community-fighting diseases such as malaria but his parents do not have the resources to provide adequate care and support for him and his siblings including meeting education expenses.
God can use you to help make Ivan’s dream a reality. Sponsor him today.
Jovin Ogenrwot
Meet Jovin, a hardworking nine (09) year old boy from Gulu, Northern Uganda. He comes from a humble peasant family. His parents struggle to provide the family’s basic needs (food, shelter, water, clothing and beddings and meet school expenditures). Jovin aspires to become a teacher in future so that he can help uplift the literacy status of his community but he has been in and out of school. It takes one person to create a lasting change in Jovin’s life. Your sponsorship will give him access to a life-changing education opportunity. At Amigos, we believe that empowering children through education can break the cycle of poverty for their families, their community and the next generation. Let’s start with Jovin Ogenrwot, sponsor him today.
Sebbi Okello
Meet Sebbi, a hardworking seven (07) year old boy from Gulu, Northern Uganda. He comes from a humble peasant family. His parents struggle to provide the family’s basic needs (food, shelter, water, clothing and beddings and meet school expenditures). Sebbi aspires to become a teacher in futures so that he can help uplift the literacy status of his community but he has been in and out of school. It takes one person to create a lasting change in Sebbi’s life. Your sponsorship will give him access to a life-changing education opportunity. At Amigos, we believe that empowering children through education can break the cycle of poverty for their families, their community and the next generation. Let’s start with Okello Sebbi, sponsor him today.
David Komagum
David is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. He lives in a home in Gulu, Northern Uganda with his mother and eight other dependents. His father is a Boda-Boda rider while his mother tends to the house and farmland. His father does not earn much so the family struggles to afford basic needs, tuition fees, and other school related expenses. He was enrolled in a nearby kindergarten/nursery school but dropped out because his couldn’t afford the tuition fees, and other school related expenses. David dreams of becoming a Lawyer in future because he wants to help fight for justice in his society. Your sponsorship commitment is a huge step towards achieving this dream. Sponsor him today.
Blessing Agenorwot
Blessing is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. She lives in a home in Gulu, Northern Uganda with her two (02) brothers and parents. She was enrolled in a nearby kindergarten/nursery school early this year but dropped out because her parents couldn’t afford the tuition fees, and other school-related expenses. Her dream is to become a driver when she grows up. Her mother toils every day in her petty trade at the local market to make this dream a reality but despite her efforts, she has failed to keep Blessing at school. She needs your support to have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.
God can use you to make a difference in the life of this innocent child who has anxiously been waiting for a sponsor.
Prisca Lakica
Prisca is thirteen years old and lives in a household with her grandmother and ten other dependents. Her grandmother is trying hard to keep her and the other dependents in school by working as a casual laborer in other people’s farms and selling excess crops harvested from the garden but she is overburdened and has to spend all her meager income to meet the large family needs like food, home repairs, and medical expenses amongst others not to mention Prisca’s education expenses.
Prisca hopes to become a Medical Doctor in the future and help the poor in her community to access cheaper medical care.
God can use you to help this vulnerable child achieve her full potential. Because your sponsorship can help fill the gaps and make a tremendous impact on her education and future, sponsor her today.
Mystica Anena
Mystic, her parents and twin brothers in Ogul Village in Northern Uganda. She is in her second year of primary school education and dreams of becoming a doctor in the future so as to help treat the sick in her community. Her mother toils every day in her petty trade to make this dream a reality but despite her efforts, she has failed to keep Mystica at school regularly during the school terms. Mystica is always sent home to fetch school dues including tuition, uniforms, and books amongst others. She needs your support to have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. God can use you to make a difference in the life of this innocent child who has been waiting anxiously for a sponsor.
Sponsored Children
Prossy Ayerwot
Prossy is a jolly eleven (11) year old girl living in Gulu, Northern Uganda. She lost her mother at birth and suffers from sickle cells anemia. Prossy dreams of becoming a Nurse in the future. She believes that through education, she can be able to treat and take care of kids just like herself. But despite her grandmother’s endeavors to help her attain this dream through education, she irregularly attends school because she is constantly being sent home by school authorities to fetch school dues including school fees, uniforms, shoes, socks, books and pens and at times being too sick to go to school.
Being unable to attend to attend school like her peers in the neighborhood has greatly affected her self-confidence. Prossy, her siblings, cousins and their grand mum in the past weeks have been working in the garden to increase access to food and generate income by selling excess farm produce.
God can use you to help ease the pain of this innocent child. Your sponsorship can help fill the gaps and make a significant impact on her education and future.
Sempa Evans
Sempa, is a young man that showed up as we were building our Children’s Home in Buikwe, Uganda. He is a happy little boy that just wants a chance to learn, grow and be happy.
Sempa is being raised by his grandmother who is terminally ill. His mother is a prostitute that has abandoned him with her Mom to raise him alone. He came to me on my last visit and we gave him a children’s book but is unable to read it. He has never been in school and needs a sponsor desperately. We have authorized Moses to purchase uniforms, clothes and enroll him in school this week. Hopefully, we can find a sponsor for him to help us give him chance at new life.
FORTUNATE AGENORWOT
Fortunate lives in a home with seven (07) other children under the care of her grandmother. They must help their caregiver in the fields and also help sell some surplus harvest to make ends meet. Despite her high determination to become a Lawyer in future, her self-esteem and sense of purpose has been constantly derailed by the irregular school attendance due to her caregiver’s incapacity to meet her school dues. Fortunate is waiting for a sponsor to give her hope and provide her with a happy childhood.
Ocen and Opiyo (twins from Ogul Village)
These twins are excited to go to the new Ogul Village Open Hands Academy and show up every day during construction to help as they can.
From carrying bricks to entertaining the workers. These guys are full of life and ready to learn!
Pray for them as Covid has closed our schools and given them much free time to roam and play!
MICHELLE AGENORWOT
Michelle is a 5-year old girl who lives in the Gulu District of Northern Uganda with her grandmother and has high ambition of becoming a professional teacher in the future by consistently attending classes. Michelle’s grandmother toils every day in her petty trade/microenterprise to make ends meet for the grandchildren.
Despite the old woman meeting some of the basic needs, she has failed to keep Michelle at school during the school terms; the child is always sent home to fetch school dues including tuition, uniforms, books. God can use you to help ease the pain of this vulnerable child in desperate need of help. Through your financial, material, emotional and spiritual support, Michelle can start schooling again in early 2019 and live to her full potential and also fulfill her aspirations.
JONATHAN RWOTOMIYA
Jonathan made 11 years in May and lives in a home with other dependents (6 boys and 3 girls). There are no adults other than his one grandmother to take care of them. He is trying hard to go to school but his old caregiver can’t afford to send him to school because she is overburdened and has to spend her meager income to meet the large family needs like food, home repairs, and meet medical expenses among others; his grandmother is overburdened and lacks the socioeconomic capacity to provide adequate care and support for these children including meeting education expenses. He also lives in an HIV/AIDS-affected area where the disease has created orphans and vulnerable children.
He hopes to become a Medical Doctor and help the poor access cheaper medical care. Please pray for this vulnerable child achieve his full potential.
Mercy Lamaro
Mercy lives with her aunt and her eight other children in Ogul, Gulu District Northern Uganda. She lost her father in 2019 and since her dad was the sole provider for the family, her mother could not afford to look after her.
Mercy now lives with her aunt. Her aunt is a peasant farmer and does not earn much and is already over burdened by the large family needs like food, home repairs and meet medical expenses.
Mercy enjoys singing in Sunday school and dreams of becoming a police officer in the Uganda Police Force because she wants to serve her country and save lives. She is anxiously waiting for a sponsor to enroll in kindergarten.
Gabreil Ocen
Gabriel lives with his parents, twin brother, and sister in a brick and grass thatched house in a poor village in Northern Uganda where amongst others bad roads are still a challenge for the residents. His parents struggle to provide for the family since they are both peasant farmers. In his spare time, he enjoys playing football with his twin brother Abel. He dreams of becoming a lawyer in the future so as to help fight for justice in his society. God can use you to help ease the pain of this vulnerable child. Your financial, material, emotional and spiritual support can help keep Gabriel in school and help him achieve his dreams.
ANSELM OLAKER
Meet Anselm, a 10 year old boy from Gulu, Northern Uganda. He comes from a humble peasant family headed by his single mum who has struggled to provide basic needs (food, shelter, water, clothing and beddings and meet school expenditures). He has been out of school for quite sometimes now. Anselm’s ambition in life is to become a Member of Parliament (MP) and help advocate for community concerns, including children’s rights. Through your collaborative efforts, he can once again go to school and have an opportunity to form friendships, work with adults who care about him and wish to prepare him for the bright future that lies ahead.
JONATHAN RWOTOMIYA
Jonathan made 11 years in May and lives in a home with other dependents (6 boys and 3 girls). There are no adults other than his one grandmother to take care of them. He is trying hard to go to school but his old caregiver can’t afford to send him to school because she is overburdened and has to spend her meager income to meet the large family needs like food, home repairs, and meet medical expenses among others; his grandmother is overburdened and lacks the socioeconomic capacity to provide adequate care and support for these children including meeting education expenses. He also lives in an HIV/AIDS-affected area where the disease has created orphans and vulnerable children.
He hopes to become a Medical Doctor and help the poor access cheaper medical care. Please pray for this vulnerable child achieve his full potential.
Daniel Lubangakene
Daniel lives in a home in Gulu, Northern Uganda with his mother and eight other dependants. His father is a Boda-Boda driver while his mother tends to the house and farmland.
His father does not earn much so the family struggles to afford basic needs, tuition fees, and other school related expenses. In his spare time, Daniel enjoys playing football with his friends. Daniel dreams of becoming a driver because he wants to solve his community’s transport problems. Daniel is attending Ogul Primary School and is in primary one. Now sponsored, he will have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally and spiritually.
ANDREW OLOYA
Andrew is a 10-year old boy living in the Gulu District in Northern Uganda with high hopes of becoming a driver in the future. He believes that through education, he can help his grandma transport some crop produce to the market. Andrew, his siblings and their grandma in the past weeks have been struggling in the local market to generate income by selling (hawking) excess crops (vegetables). Despite the grandma’s effort to educate Andrew and his other siblings using her meager earnings from hawking, meeting their education needs has not been possible for the old woman. Andrew did drop out of school due to irregular school attendance; every other week, he was being sent home by the school authorities to fetch school dues including school fees, uniforms, shoes, socks, books and pens. Being unable to attend school for more than six months now like his peers in the neighborhood has greatly affected the child’s self-esteem and sense of purpose. God can use you to help ease the pain of this child in desperate need. Through your financial, material, emotional and spiritual support, Andrew can start schooling again in early 2019 and live to his full potential, and his rights and aspirations will be fulfilled.
Mercy Oroma
Meet Mercy Oroma. She is a Thirteen-year-old girl and lives in a poor community in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
Both of Mercy’s parents are peasant farmers and it is very challenging for them to provide the necessary needs including meeting her education expenses.
Mercy is currently attending Classes at Ogul Primary School and is in primary four, but needs your help to continue. Her favorite subject is social studies and she loves to read and play with her siblings during her free time. Mercy’s dream is to become a professional tailor in the future.
God can use you to meet the need of this innocent child. Your sponsorship can help fill the gaps and make her dream a reality.
IMMACULATE AGENORWOT
Immaculate is an 8 year old girl living in Gulu, Northern Uganda with high hopes of becoming a professional teacher in the future. She believes that through education, she can help other needy kids learn to read and write. Despite her mother’s passion to get her prepared early for the future to support herself and/or siblings through education, she irregularly attends school because every other week, she is being sent home by school authorities to fetch school dues including school fees, uniforms, shoes, socks, books and pens. Being unable to attend school like her peers in the neighborhood has greatly affected her self-esteem and sense of purpose. Immaculate, her siblings and her single mum in the past weeks have been working in the small garden they hired to increase access to nutritious food and genera te income by selling excess crops (vegetables). God can use you to help ease the pain of a child in desperate need. Through your financial, material, emotional and spiritual support, Immaculate can live to her full potential and her rights and aspiration will be fulfilled.
LISA ANENO
Lisa lives under the care of her grandmother and seven other children. Despite her high determination to become a Nurse in the future, her self-esteem and sense of purpose have been constantly derailed by the irregular school attendance due to her caregiver’s inability to meet her school dues. Lisa is waiting for a sponsor to give her hope and provide her with a happy childhood.
BRENDA ALOYO
Brenda is 13 years old now and lives in a home with other dependents (6 boys and 3
girls). There are no adults other than her one grandmother to take care of them. She is trying
hard to go to school but her old caregiver can’t afford to send her to school because she has to spend her meager income to meet other family needs like food, home repairs, and meet medical expenses amongst others; her grandmother is overburdened and lacks the socioeconomic capacity to provide adequate care and support for these children. She also lives in an HIV/AIDS-affected area where the disease has created orphans and vulnerable children. Her ambition in life is to be a lawyer and help the poor access legal services. God can use you to help this vulnerable child who lacks mainly the education she requires to achieve her full potential.
MONICA ATIM
Monica is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. She lives in a home in Gulu, Northern Uganda with her two cousins and a sister. There are no adults other than her single mom to take care of them. She was enrolled in a nearby kindergarten/nursery school early this year but dropped out because her mum couldn’t afford the tuition fees, and other school-related expenses and couldn’t maintain the children including Monica over the long term. Despite her mother earning some money from selling the surplus crop from the small garden they are hiring, they don’t have enough money for food every day. Monica enjoys playing with toy cars, dolls, singing, drawing, and matching letters. Her dream in life is to be a Police Officer so as to help protect property and keep law and order in the town. She needs your support to have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.
MARY IMMACULATE AJOLO
Mary is 12 years old now and lives with her single mum and three other siblings.
She is very jolly child who dropped out of school in Primary Six (P.6) last year. In her free time, she loves to read books, skip ropes, draw and paint pictures. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a terrible toll on the children of Mary’s family in general; the social and emotional effects of the disease in the household are so profound. Despite irregular school attendance in the past years so as to care for an ailing family member (mother), she is again facing another psychosocial distress of a shattered dream since her mum who depends on subsistence farming to make ends meet can’t afford her school expenditures. She hopes one day she can be a Medical Doctor and help treat sick people in the community. Mary is waiting for sponsors and through your support; you can provide her with a happy childhood.
Shafik Ibunda
He lives at Amigos Unique orphanage.
Shafik wants to be a doctor when he grows up!
Abel Opiyo
Abel lives with his parents, twin brother, and sister in a brick and grass thatched house in a very poor village in Northern Uganda where bad roads are still a challenge for the residents. His parents struggle to provide for the family since they are both peasant farmers. In his spare time, he enjoys playing football with his twin brother Gabriel. He dreams of becoming an army officer in the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) because he wants to serve his country and save lives and property. God can use you to help ease the pain of this vulnerable child. Your financial, material, emotional and spiritual support will help keep Abel in school and help him achieve his dreams.
PRECIOUS LAGUM
Precious is a very intelligent 6-year-old girl with big dreams. She is anxiously waiting for a sponsor. Her only caregiver is her grandmother who is overburdened and lacks the socioeconomic capacity to provide adequate care and support for the children including meeting education expenses. She also lives in an HIV/AIDS-affected household where the disease has created orphans and vulnerable children. Her ambition is to pursue a career in Nursing when she grows up; this she believes will enable help her grandmother and other children who will fall sick in the community. Through your support, her self-esteem and sense of purpose will be boosted.
PRISKA ATIMANGO
Priska is 11 years old and lives in a home with other dependents (6 boys and 3 girls).
There are no adults other than her one grandmother to take care of them. She is trying hard to go to school but her old caregiver can’t afford to send her to school because she has to spend her meager income to meet other family needs like food, home repairs, and meet medical expenses amongst others; her grandmother is overburdened and lacks the socioeconomic capacity to provide adequate care and support for these children. She also lives in an HIV/AIDS-affected area where the disease has created orphans and vulnerable children. Her ambition in life is to be a Nurse and help treat sick people in the community. Priska is in dire need of a sponsor to help make her dream come true.
Thank you for your choice to reach out and sponsor a child in need of your support.
If you would like to write to your child,
please address the letter to
[Child’s name]
Adongping Gloria
P. O. Box 569,
Gulu, Uganda
If you haven’t gotten an update on your child, please email our Ugandan Director of Sponsorships, Gloria Adonping at [email protected].
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Sponsor Tamara
sends goodies to her sponsored child AND her siblings! They are so excited!
Johnathan gets a letter and writes back!
Fortunate personally
says Thank You!
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