Director's Introduction

A personal introduction from the director:

Hello friends,

My name is Ssenyonga Patrick. I am a 36 year old Ugandan. I am a director at Community Child and Youth Care Network Uganda fomerly called Lwabenge Child Caring Community, an organization founded with a sole purpose of helping needy children and the youth that started in 2008. I am a businessman dealing in tours and travel business under my company called Leisure Park Travel Services, Ltd as a director. I hold a Bachelors degree in Organizational Management and a Diploma in Tourism.

Life of a child without a parent is so hard. No parental love, no care, no shelter, no food, no happiness, no access to basic needs, nothing totally. That is what it is like with the children of Uganda and Africa at large. The number of orphans and needy children is rising day by day in Uganda due to a number of factors like HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other epidemics. My project area of Kalungu, Masaka and Rakai Districts  in Uganda is where HIV/AIDS first hit so the situation is worse there.
 
I came to realize the need the people in my area have, especially the children and the youth because they are the future generations. I started up an organization called Lwabenge Child Caring Community as a community based organization which was later transformed to a national organization under the name of Community Child and Youth Care Network Uganda (CCYC-Net). We have accomplished big changes for the people in my project area, uniting children, youth and the aged to engage in income generating activities which have helped them a lot in developing themselves and their families.
 
At the moment 200 needy children are registered with us and 150 youth. we do provide all what we can do to them especially in education by providing scholastic materials at least every educational term.
I am able to meet this with my little salary I earn and contributions from friends and well wishers and the community plus some income from the projects we carry out like craft making, bee keeping, farming and others.
 
We face many challenges but because GOD is in the middle of everything that we do, everything is possible.

I also call upon everybody who would wish to travel to Uganda or East Africa for holidays/touring, please I can render exellent service to you at affordable price. Every bit helps. 

Please join me in the struggle. You are welcome to read more information at the links at the top of this page or by contacting me personally.

May God bless you
Thank you

Ssenyonga Patrick
Director

Support A Child's Schooling

Help a child go to school in Uganda

7,000,000 million people cannot earn 1 USD in a day or a week in Uganda

47,303 in Kalungu district,
9,944 in Lwabenge Sub County 
yet they have to live, eat, educate their children

2,300,000 children are orphans in Uganda
 17,654 in Kalungu district
 3,131 in Lwabenge sub county, of these  
1,568 are girl children 

 

Clean Water

This is the source of water in our project area that the community uses. Due to such waters being used and sometimes shared with cattle, it leads to many sickness in our children. In some cases water is being collected from puddles. We need to improve this by protecting the spring wells like the one below, constructing harvest water tanks per household or at least shared by two families and constructing bore holes. With that, children will be free from water born diseases. 

Our clean water project goals for 2014-2016 are construction of water harvesting tanks and 5 spring wells and 2 bore holes. 

Please join us  in the struggle for clean safe water...

Note: Camera date is not correct

An Invitation For Volunteers

As a self help organization focusing on empowering orphaned children, women, youth and poor families we want to promote more community development. To do this we have very very limited resources and at times no resources at all, yet things have to move on. 

We invite VOLUNTEERS from within Uganda and anywhere in the world to give a hand in improving the lives of others. We welcome any volunteer who is willing to train in any skill to contact us. 

Below are pictures of two volunteers we have hosted at different times who have graciously spent their time here helping out. 
(We couldn't get the date on the camera right so dates are not at all accurate.)

For more details, please contact: 
Patrick Ssenyonga,
Tel: +256  704211584 
Email: communitychildandyouth@gmail.com

Photo Above: Happy moment for Montana Matilda after she had completed her volunteer period with us. She received many gifts from the people in the community they really appreciated.

 
These are some of the children at school that CCYC-Net looks after. The volunteer, Montana Matilda from Canada, was sharing a happy moment with them after teaching them in class.

   Volunteer visiting an HIV/AIDS affected family. The baby is a victim too.

Above: Laura Debby, a volunteer from Scotland, Ssenyonga Patrick on the left and a friend posing for a picture with some of the children.

Right: Laura Debby posing with Alice an orphan we support. She spent 2 weeks with us caring for the children.

 We call upon VOLUNTEERS wherever they would be to come and volunteer with CCYC-NET in the fields of Education, Health, Social Care, Fundraising, Managment and any possible field that you feel relevant to the children and communities.

Promoting Skillful Parenting in Uganda

Improving Parenting Skills In Uganda

Community Child & Youth Care Network trains parents and guardians in SKILLFUL PARENTING (Better Parenting Skills for rural families).

The training is made successful with support from PARENTING AFRICA

Below are training photographs

Ssenyonga Patrick (circled), the director of Lwabenge Child caring Community after attending the PARENTING IN AFRICA SYMPOSIUM in Tanzania

Conducting training in Skillful Parenting for parents & guardians at Miwuula - Lwabenge - Kalungu district

Parents receiving some useful resources (REFLECTIONS - Parenting highlights for African families)

Some of the parents & guardians after receiving the resources on REFLECTIONS - Parenting highlights for African families

Organizational Changes

CCYC-NET   Community Child & Youth Care Network

Community Child and Youth Care Network Uganda (formerly known as Lwabenge Child Caring Community) is an NGO started in 2008 by Mr. Ssenyonga Patrick. It is located in Miwuula village, Bwesa parish, Lwabenge Sub County in the newly created district of Kalungu in Uganda.

Because of this organizational name change, our former websites are no longer being maintained. We will be transfering over many prior posts from that site and on facebook as soon as we can. Most of the pertinent information has already been added to the Tabs/Pages at the top of this site. If you have any questions, please contact us...
You can also see more info on Facebook on the following accounts:
Ssenyonga Patrick
Lwabenge Child

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