How it Works
In Uganda, children die daily of malnutrition, and of lack of medical treatment, basic necessities & loving care. Many of the children live in desperate situations, sleeping on dirt floors and becoming infested with lice, fleas, and worms. Many will grow up with no education from lacking the means to pay public school fees.
Most of the children supported through sponsorship live with a single parent, intact impoverished family or extended family members; some are cared for in the ministry’s Children’s Home. Ministry staff see sponsored children weekly at AWANA club activities and visit their homes regularly to supplement food, clothing and household needs. Donations help us provide these educational and supplemental needs.
In order to raise these children out of the cycle of poverty into which they were born, sponsorship offers a quality education at the ministry’s Genesis Nursery and Primary School as well as secondary school (high school) and vocational or university training in the country.
We have also established Holmes Medical Clinic to provide affordable medical care to the community and our sponsored children. Your generous gift will allow us to provide ongoing, vital medical services to those who would otherwise go untreated for serious conditions.
The Three Types of Sponsorships:
Asha N
Asha N
Age: 11 | Grade: Primary 5
Asha has lived with her aunt since she was 2 years old. Her parents had serious drug addictions and Asha has been affected by these choices. She is a slow learner, but is making her way. In spite of these limitations, Asha is a fun-loving, friendly girl and she successfully manages good friendships.
Sponsorship through Hines Ugandan Ministries has helped this young girl and her faithful aunt for many years. Asha is making good life choices and is growing spiritually as she attends Awana club and Sunday school regularly. Asha is in need of a second sponsor as we seek options for her further learning opportunities to ensure that she is able to care for herself as an adult in a country where resources for special needs children and adults are limited. She will likely require sponsorship longer than most of her peers, but we are eager to see God work in her life as He desires the best for all His children. A special sponsor will make all the difference for this young lady.
Sponsorship need: $40/month
John B
John B
Age: 5 | Grade: Preschool
John’s family lives in extreme poverty. His father is a casual laborer, working for people in the community, helping in their gardens, herding livestock, carrying water and more, to bring in what he can to support his family. John’s mother, also uneducated, like his father, is a housewife, gardening and caring for the children.
John has attempted to start school, but the family has been unable to cover the cost of a school uniform, shoes and books. Sponsorship will help John attend our Genesis Nursery and Primary School where he will receive a quality education and learn a Biblical world view. He will also learn about Jesus at Awana and Sunday school. Sponsorship will also help meet his basic and medical needs and make a meaningful difference in his life, ending the cycle of poverty as he grows up.
Sponsorship need: $80/month
Michelle N
Michelle N
Age: 15 | Grade: Secondary 1
Michelle and her family were homeless for many years. When her father passed away several years ago, her mother was unable to provide for the children and Michelle and her older brother were brought to the children’s home. Michelle enjoys singing and dancing and likes Awana club and Sunday school, which she attends faithfully.
Michelle has been a very good student at HUM’s Genesis Primary School and looks forward to beginning high school in February of 2025. Unfortunately, she recently lost her sponsor and additional costs of high school are creating a great need for Michelle. Sponsorship will help her with her educational needs as well as helping us care for her at the children’s home. Michelle is a bright young girl, with hope for a meaningful future and the ability to care for herself as she will not have a family to fall back on as a young adult.
Sponsorship Need: $160/month from or between two
Abudalah N
Abudalah N
Age: 15 | Grade: Primary 7
Abudalah lives with his widowed mother and his seven brothers and sisters. His mother works in the fields of neighbors to provide for her children, though this is seasonal work and the family struggles greatly at time.
Through the HUM sponsorship program Abudalah has had 2 partial sponsors since 2017. Unfortunately, one of these sponsors is unable to continue so we are seeking a new partial sponsor at $80/month as he will be moving on to secondary school in the new year. Abudalah has attended HUM’s Genesis Primary School where he receives a quality education as well as a Biblical world view. He enjoys playing soccer with his friends and helping serve lunch at Saturday Awana. He is a happy boy.
Full sponsorship will continue to meet Abudalah’s basic, spiritual, educational and medical needs while providing him hope for a meaningful future to the glory of God.
Sponsorship need: $80/month
Michael K
Michael K
Age: 16 | Grade: Secondary 1
Michael lives with his parents and five siblings in extreme poverty. His father is a boda-boda(motorcycle taxi) driver where he earns some money, but not enough to sustain the whole family of seven. Michael pitches in with many chores and helps with his 6 younger siblings whenever he is not at school.
Michael was a bit older when he began attending HUM’s Genesis Primary School, but he stood out as a leader at the school. He is bright, enthusiastic, and a focused-learner which helped him to excel in all his classes. Michael began secondary school this year and is in need of a scholarship sponsor to help cover the additional costs that come with secondary school.
Michael has been active in our AWANA program and Sunday School and he now continues to learn in the Scripture Union Bible Club at his boarding school. He is growing up with a solid Biblical world view and will undoubtedly become a Godly Christian leader and break the cycle of poverty in his family.
Sponsorship need: $60/month
Elidadi M
Elidadi
Age: 8 | Grade: Primary 1
Both of Elidadi’s parents are living with HIV and struggle to care for the family. His parents lack education and their health issues limit how much they can work, though they do some menial labor for neighbors as they are able. His older sister is also HIV positive and other siblings suffer from various chronic ailments. For the most part, all of the little income they can bring in is needed for medicine and food, in that order. Several of the children are sponsored by HUM to help make these things manageable, but it is a difficult life for this family.
Elidadi currently attends Genesis School with the help of a partial sponsorship but is in need of a second sponsor to fully meet his needs. He loves Awana’s and Sunday School and is learning all about Jesus and the Bible. Elidadi’s favorite color is blue and he loves to play football with his friends. He and his parents are extremely grateful for the assistance from kind sponsors to help Elidadi with basic needs and to go to school.
Sponsorship Need: Partial sponsor at $40/month
Catherine N
Catherine N
Age: 14 | Grade: Secondary 1
Catherine “Cathy” has never known her mother and lived with her father, a fisherman, until he abandoned her with his parents when Cathy was just 4 years old. Her grandparents struggled with domestic violence in their home and abandoned Cathy four years ago. She has been taken in by Pastor Charles and Judith, who work with us at HUM, and sponsorship will help them care for Cathy and will pay her school fees at HUM’s Genesis Primary School.
Cathy loves going to church and Awana Club and is also learning a Biblical world view at school. She loves going to Genesis and is looking forward to secondary school in February. She is very grateful for her home with the pastor’s family and enjoys knitting and reading story books. She recently received a sponsor, but will need a scholarship sponsor to help with the increased educational costs that come with secondary school. Sponsorship will offer Cathy hope for a future in which she can care for herself despite the many losses she has endured and is overcoming to the glory of God.
Sponsorship need: $60/month
Raymie M
Raymie M
Age: 8 | Grade: Primary 2
Raymie comes from a family with a mother and father. The father is a school teacher. Unfortunately, the father had a complete breakdown and has not been able to work for three years now due to mental illness. The mother is a homemaker and makes no income. Raymie is one of four children.
Because of the father’s instability, Raymie and 2 of his siblings have been placed in the children’s home of Hines Ugandan Ministries. Sponsorship will help provide for his housing, medical and school needs as well as give him the opportunity to learn how much Jesus loves him. Raymie is partially sponsored and is in need of a second sponsor to fully meet his sponsorship needs.
Raymie is a very quiet young boy who loves soccer and does very well at school. He is already reading in the 1st grade and loves learning at our Genesis Primary School. A sponsor will help this boy to excel in all he does, and make a meaningful difference for his future.
Sponsorship need: $40/month
Leticia M
Leticia M
Age: 3 | Grade: None yet
Leticia’s parents were never educated, making it difficult to support a growing family. Her father brings in less than $1 a day by working in gardens and other menial jobs in the community. Her mother works the family garden to feed the family and cares for the children.
Sponsorship will help meet Letitia’s nutritional, basic and medical needs. It will also help her to begin preschool in another year at HUM’s Genesis Nursery and Primary School, which will allow her to grow up with the ability to secure life sustaining employment, lifting her out of the cycle of poverty into which she was born. Most importantly, Leticia will have the opportunity to grow up knowing the love of Jesus through Awana club and Sunday school.
Sponsorship need: $40/month
Margaret N
Margaret N
Age: 16 | Grade: Primary 6
Margaret keeps a smile on her face even though she has experienced severe poverty and very difficult living conditions. She is one of the older students in her class at school, but she is very grateful for getting to go to school now at Genesis Primary School. She lives with her father and step-mother, but her father is barely able to keep the family fed since he works as a peasant farmer.
Margaret is a bright child and extremely thankful for every meal and being able to go to school. She loves playing with friends at school. She needs additional sponsorship help in order to cover school fees and assistance with food and medical care. By the grace of God , Margaret will complete school and be a blessing in God’s Kingdom thanks to the helpful intervention from a loving sponsor.
Sponsorship need: $40/month
Faith K
Faith K
Age: 17 | Grade: Secondary 2
Faith lives with her mother and paternal grandmother after her father abandoned them. Her grandmother is a Christian, but she is very old, sickly and cannot afford to take care of them. Her mother earns a very small income doing menial jobs when she can find them.
Faith is a humble and quiet girl. She loves the color pink. She is grateful for achieving her first goal of completing primary school. She loves the Lord from her Grandmother’s influence and has joined the Scripture Union Club at her school. Faith is believing God for help from a sponsor so she can achieve her next goal of completing her secondary education. Sponsorship will meet Faith’s educational, medical, basic and spiritual needs and give her hope for a future unlike many Ugandan girls that are married off into continuing poverty at a very young age.
Sponsorship Need: $80/month
Jonathan N
Jonathan N
Age: 17 | Grade: Secondary 2
Jonathan lives with his maternal grandparents since his mother left him to remarry and his father is unknown. It is culturally common for single mothers to leave their children with family in order to be able to marry again. Jonathan attended the Genesis School and he grew up attending HUM’s AWANA’s on Saturdays. He is now beginning his second year of high school. Jonathan lost his scholarship sponsor when he began high school and is in need of a new one.
Jonathan is a tall, healthy boy, who likes playing football and riding a bicycle. He lives a very disciplined life and is also hardworking both at home and school. Sponsorship will provide him the opportunity to continue high school as well as assist with his basic and medical needs and become a Godly leader for his family, community and country.
Sponshorship Need: $120/month from one or between two sponsors.
Ronald M
Ronald N
Age: 19 | Grade: Secondary 4
Ronald lives with his sickly and widowed grandmother, along with his siblings, since he was 5 years old, after the loss of their father and mother. He is in high school and needs a second sponsor to help cover education needs. He loves to play football and make friends.
He has attended Awana and Sunday School regularly throughout his time at HUM when he was younger and he attends a Scripture Union club at his school now. Sponsorship will offer Ronald a bright future, lifting him our of the cycle of poverty into which he was born and offering him the opportunity to become a Godly leader for his family, community and country.
Sponsorship Need: $80/month from one more sponsor
Emmanuel N
Emmanel N
Age: 14 | Grade: Secondary 1
Emmanuel was brought to the children’s home when he and his sister were abandoned by their single mother. He has been an average student at HUM’s Genesis Primary School and has made efforts to seek out student leadership positions at the school. He is looking forward to beginning high school in February of 2025.
Emmanuel likes playing football and spending time with his friends from the children’s home during his free time. He enjoys attending Awana every Saturday and church on Sunday and likes nightly devotions at the home. Emmanuel desperately needs a sponsor as he recently lost his long-time sponsor and the increased cost of high school is adding an even greater need. Sponsorship will help us care for him at the Children’s home and cover is educational and medical needs. Emmanuel has the potential to be a Godly leader in his community and country as a sponsor helps him end the cycle of poverty into which he was born.
Sponsorship Need: $160/month from one or two sponsors
Stecia M
Stecia M
Age: 6 | Grade: Primary 1
Stecia’s parents are uneducated and sustain their family the best they can as casual workers, which earns them very little. Stecia is one of four children. Her parents are attempting to send her to local public school, but she cannot attend consistently when they are unable to pay for a uniform and school supplies.
Sponsorship will allow Stecia to attend HUM’s Genesis Primary School where she will receive a quality education and learn a biblical world view. She will also learn about Jesus at Awana club and Sunday School. Sponsorship will also help provide for her basic, nutritional and medical needs and lift her out of the cycle of poverty into which she was born, completely transforming her future.
Sponsorship need: $80/month