Hope for orphans and widows in East Central Africa
Since 2004 we have helped widows build livelihoods through micro-loans and put orphans through school in Uganda and DR Congo.
Our mission
Hope Centers for Children of Africa comes to the aid of orphans and those who care for them. We break the cycle of poverty through proven methods — education, micro-grants, and self-sustaining projects — and combat dependency by helping communities stand on their own.
We believe communities flourish when widows can earn a living and orphans can go to school. Rather than building orphanages, we place children with host families and equip caregivers to provide for them — an approach that has carried our first Hope Center in Bunia, DR Congo all the way to financial self-sufficiency.
- Widows in micro-loan programs
- 113+
- Orphans supported in school
- 260+
- Hope Centers in Africa
- 2
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit since
- 2009
Where we work
Two Hope Centers, two countries, one mission.
Uganda
Luweero
Our Uganda Hope Center supports about 58 widows and 60 orphans with micro-grants, schooling, livestock, and farming on our growing acreage in the Luweero District.
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DR Congo
Bogoro
In Bogoro we walk alongside roughly 55 widows and more than 200 orphans through education, women-in-development programs, and cattle-raising sustainability projects.
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Hope Centers — Winter 2023
Read what God is doing in Luweero and Bogoro in our most recent update.
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Help a widow build a business. Keep an orphan in school.
A micro-loan or a semester of school fees changes a family's trajectory for good.
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