Since it was started in June of 2023, the money donated to this GoFundMe has been used in the past 3 years to pay for daily food, medication, healthcare, education, school supplies, monthly housing, water, electricity, bedsheets, blankets, clothing, shoes, and emergency needs for 34 (formerly 35) children. 
 
The current budget is below. Every new donation is used for the children's current needs, as detailed in the updates below and our LinkedIn (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/2kjwbzwptarget=_blankrel=noreferrertarget=_blankrel=noreferrer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2kjwbzwp" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/2kjwbzwp</a></a>). 
 
Thank you for helping to keep these children housed, safe, fed, healthy, and in school! 
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Hello, my name is Sabakachi Waiswa Steve, and I am 23 years old. I am from Kyamagwa, a small village in eastern Uganda. 
 
ABOUT ME 

I lost both my parents and became an orphan at a young age. But I was also blessed - I was raised by people unrelated to me, whose kind hearts and unconditional love showed and taught me what it means to care for others with kindness and love. They not only took care of me but supported me in every aspect of life. I was able to study up to high school until there was no money left for my education. I started working to earn money and also discovered that I loved to paint. 
 
My guardians' love and support inspired me to start helping the homeless children and orphans that I saw everyday. These children are so helpless, sleeping on the streets without any food or shelter, and are humiliated and discriminated against despite being in circumstances that were not of their doing and that they had no control over. At first, I started by sharing food and clothes with them. After my guardians died and I had to rent a place to live, I kept supporting as many orphans and homeless children as I could. One day, I came across a 3-year-old struggling so much that my heart broke and I decided to take him in so that he at least had a home and regular food. I took in more and more children to share the room I was renting, and wanted to do so always so that they could all have a home, food, and community. And so I decided that I would find a way. 
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ARMS OF LOVE 

In 2018, I started Arms of Love Children Care Ministry and registered it with the Ugandan government to get additional support. However, the government support I received was and is very little. I lost my job early on in the pandemic and have tried my best to earn money. My guardians also died of covid during the pandemic, which broke my heart and also made me even more determined to carry on their legacy. So I took on work wherever I could find it. I even worked as a machinist for some time, even though the fumes endangered my health and caused great pain in my hands. And as word spread about me, more and more children found their way to me. 
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With my friends Zalika and Esther, I am now blessed and happy to provide a home, food, and community for 34 children. At the same time the jobs I work here in Uganda only pay me $10 to $25 USD per day. So no matter how hard I work, I am unable to earn enough money so that all the children can go to school, or even so that all the children have proper decker (bunk) beds and blankets instead of just mattresses without sheets on the cold cement floor. Oftentimes, we can only afford to eat one meal a day. 
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PLEASE HELP 

Please, I need your help. Right now, Zalika, Esther, and I are trying our best to provide for these children so that they can all do more than survive. These children all deserve to have warm beds, especially in the cold rainy season; to have enough to eat every day; to go to school to learn and educate themselves so that they can turn their dreams into reality; to move from just surviving to fully living and thriving. To meet the needs of all 34 children, I need $2,000 per month. It is an impossible sum for me to make, earn, or find on my own. I ask for your help so that I can continue to support this community of children, this family that we are blessed to know and care for. This money will go towards fulfilling our monthly needs for food, rent, utilities, medication/healthcare costs, school tuition and school supplies, clothing, underwear, sanitary pads, blankets, bedsheets, etc. 
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For updates about us, please follow the Arms of Love LinkedIn page here: 

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Thank you so much for your help and support! It means so much to us. 
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About the organizer (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayofashoro/target=_blankrel=noreferrertarget=_blankrel=noreferrer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayofashoro/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayofashoro/</a></a>): When Waiswa first reached out to me on LinkedIn in March of 2023, I was shocked at how little it took to make a difference - just 59 cents could feed a child for a day. 

Whatever money is donated here, I transfer to Waiswa daily so that he, Zalika, Esther and the children can get what they need to thrive. Since the purpose of this page is to help them meet their everyday needs, the goal also increases monthly. Thank you for donating and sharing! ❤️

Jared Karol

Anonymous

Paula Costas Alonso

M. B. Kleikamp

Ann Eshaw

Aaron Snyder

Nicola Adkin

Matti Kleikamp

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