Vumbula Youth Home

Welcome to Vumbula Uganda Youth Home

Kampala, Uganda

Vumbula Uganda Youth Home is focused on helping the children grow in mind, body, and soul. We are helping them not only with food and shelter, but school. We want to help the children achieve their dreams.

World Youth Horizons has helped provide donations directly to the children of Vumbula Uganda Youth Home, which is run by Sseyange Robert and Kizza Lovincer. In 2021, WYH helped the orphanage support children through education, new beds, shoes, toothbrushes, purchasing land, building a fence, and the start of building two new homes for the children.

Robert’s story

“God is good all the time! Who am I running the big orphanage in this world?

My name is Ssenyange Robert, I am a twenty-three-year-old Christian, born in Uganda, Africa. Being an orphan myself along with my sister (Nantayi Harriet) and my brother (Godfrey Baziwane) is the main reason I started Vumbula Uganda Youth Home. Before all this happened, there was a war in my country, due to political matters. Many people, especially children, were affected. Many lost their parents due to war. I lost my grandfather and aunt during the war, leaving my mother to raise not only us, but her sisters’ children as well. My mother struggled to raise us. We lived in a small house my mother built, using mud and tree branches. My mother loved children so much she decided to help some of the orphans whom she found sleeping in the bush and alone without any shelter or food to eat. By then my mother could plant food just to feed us, and when we got sick, she would give us herbal medicine. She could not afford the hospital. When I was thirteen years old, my mother got very ill and passed away. We were left alone — me, my sister, my brother, and the other fifteen children my mother was taking care of.

Life was so hard for us, and the house was almost falling to the ground. Fortunately, we were rescued by the missionaries who had come to our village. I was taken with my sister and brother to the missionary church, and we managed to go to school. After the missionaries left and returned to their home countries, we were left by some caretakers who took over the responsibility of looking after the orphans. Years went by, and I decided to look for a job to look after my little sister and brother. At the orphanage, they taught us some skills. I learned about mechanics because I loved repairing cars. At the age of seventeen, I got a job on a street in our town. Not forgetting my mother’s heart and where I came from, I decided to continue my mother’s legacy. She taught me how to be a good person and to always help those in need if I could. My mother also taught me the most amazing thing, and that was to pray, love, and serve the Lord our God with all my heart and to always be true in everything I do. With that good spirit planted in me by my mother, I decided to go back to my home area and help the poor children who are suffering and to bring a change in their lives. I could give them only some little food and clothes, but no shelter, since the land we left back for them was taken away by some villagers and I could not recover it. God helped me and sent me a good and kind-hearted man who gave me and the children a simple house to rent. With the small amount I could get from my job at the car washing, I was able to feed these children, but the number of orphans increased and now there are forty-five orphans. Looking after them by myself was getting very difficult. I started to ask for sponsors and volunteers who could help me with the children. We registered my ministry so that these children could get sponsored and have an opportunity to get an education and help with the basic necessities every child needs. Our ultimate goal is to be able to buy our own land one day, grow crops, raise livestock, and eventually become more self-sustaining. Continue educating the children, giving them a chance at a brighter future. God bless you all.”

What Vumbula needs

We find people and communities that are making a difference in the lives of children and directly support their initiatives. Recurring monthly needs at Vumbula include:

• Rent
• Food
• Internet and phone
• Animal feed
• Medical supplies
• Sanitary supplies
• School fees, books, uniforms, and supplies

How to give

You can support the children of Vumbula with a one-time or monthly gift. Donations go toward food, shelter, education, and the long-term goal of land and permanent homes for the children.