Let's Initiate Giving Home To Streetchildren

What is the Emma Dow Children’s Home?
The Emma Dow Children’s Home is part of our LIGHTS project for street kids, founded in 2012 by the two brothers: Julius Lule and Barnabas Kaggwa. The children’s home is named after eleven-year-old Emma Dow from Canada. She took initiative and raised money by selling self-made juice at her school. Thanks to her commitment and other donations from Canada and Europe the children’s home was able to top out in 2012.
LIGHTS is taking up children who would otherwise be forced to live on the streets and offers them a home in rural Nabugabo in southwestern Uganda.
The Children’s Home was founded to provide a safe and secure environment for boys who would otherwise be forced to live on the streets. Today it is a sanctuary for eleven children and six teenagers, aged between six and eighteen years.
They can go to school and live safely in a family-like environment, which also helps them to process their often traumatic experiences.
For some, a return to their parents or relatives has been considered or has already been successful. For most of them, however, such a thing is not - or not yet - possible due to their disrupted family situations. At Emma Dow, Julius L. and Barnabas K. take care of them on a voluntary basis. The daily routine is similar to that of a normal extended family. We cook, do the laundry and play a lot of football together. In the evening hours, there is playing cards and music before the younger ones go to sleep in the childrens room. Thanks to a wonderful donation the older ones have had their own shared bedroom since 2018.

Our work
First and foremost, we see ourselves as a home and refuge for children in need. We enable them to go to school and provide them with a non-violent upbringing to further healthy physical development and spiritual healing. Although we consider ourselves as one big family
we encourage the children to keep in touch with their birth family, whenever possible.
Also, LIGHTS cares about those children who still live on the streets and provides them with food and medical treatment.