Kulika Uganda was approached by Catholic Care for Children Uganda (CCCU) to provide training to 20 families in Northern and Central Uganda. The purpose of the training is to prepare and strengthen the capacity of the families to receive the children who are currently in the Child Care Institutions. The children have stayed in care homes for some time, they are accustomed to the childcare environment. Often conditions in their homes are different.

Before the transition, families will be assessed to find out if they are economically and socially stable to take care of the child/children.

Families will be strengthened to take care of the children. This is planned to start small and scale out with lessons learned from the pilot. Currently there are 27 homes, but the pilot will start with 4 childcare institutions (4 regions i.e., north, east, west, and south).

The Catholic Care for Children in Uganda (CCCU) takes care of children who have been abandoned or run away from their homes. The organization has 27 childcare institutions in the 4 regions of Uganda, and they intend to reintegrate these children into their families/ communities start with 4 childcare institutions. A successful re-integration would require mentoring on the side of the children so that they may adjust to the new conditions.

Through this project we will enhance the capacity of Religious in family economic strengthening for resettlement of children currently in residential care and also pilot the establishment of community centres of excellence for family economic strengthening/empowerment.