Some of the Destiny Youth at the GIFT Home site – they planted a special surprise as a way to say Thank You to Carole and all of Favor Int’l for helping rescue them from street life, introducing them to Jesus, and giving them a home and a purpose.

Due to the wars of the past decade, 50% of Uganda’s population is age fifteen and under, many of whom are orphans. Child-headed homes are common as older siblings are forced to care for the younger, often struggling to secure a single meal in a day.

Favor supports:

1. Youth in prison
2. Youth coming off the streets
3. Youth we have legally adopted
4. Youth who have no other option

Our existing foster care program serves extended family units where social workers provide careful oversight and assistance for their ongoing medical needs and spiritual, social, academic and vocational development.

Secondary school-aged children participate in our work-study program to learn skills that will equip them as successful members of society. Based on talents and interest, these work-study opportunities include IT training, farming, professional driving, hospitality, and more.

Gulu’s youth prison is another area of great need. Forgotten by society and disowned by their families, these vulnerable children, ages eight to eighteen, were manipulated and coerced by adults to commit acts a child would never imagine. Yet through our ongoing ministry, every child has now professed salvation and is engaged in regular Bible study and discipleship. Due to this success, the city is now willing to release them for rehabilitation.

Children on good behavior will be transitioned to our rehabilitation home to learn responsibilities and schedules and to receive spiritual, academic and vocational training. Near the end of rehabilitation, staff will facilitate the work of reconciliation and restoration by bringing the children’s families to visit. As relationships mend, youths will be allowed to visit home, eventually rejoining their families and becoming established as working members of the community.

Through your sponsorships, our House of Hope foster program supports orphaned children within extended family units where our social workers provide careful oversight and assistance for their ongoing medical needs and spiritual, social, academic and vocational development. Once in Secondary School, each child is invited to participate in our work-study program to learn skills and trades that will equip them to become successful members of society. Work study opportunities are selected based on skills and interest and have included IT training, farming, professional driving, hospitality and more.

We bring healing and hope to hundreds of children and their families through our schools and Programs. Children receive spiritual and emotional counseling as well as medical and nutritional care, love academic and other social services. Forgotten by many, these children are vulnerable and we provide a protective environment where they can fulfill they’re God Given potential.

Our work study program is for children who have completed primary school, been resettled within the community, and would like to continue their education. We continue follow their progress and provide them the opportunity to learn a skill according to their interests, gifts and talents, while also supplying help to pay the necessary fees to attend Secondary School. We have trained and supported students and have seen them increase in productivity, innovation, and renewed hope for the future. Education combined with spiritual growth is a life and nation transforming event.