Sponsor me, please!

One of the programs that Food for the Hungry works hard to implement is the CDP -- Child Development Program. This is mainly designed to offer children in remote villages the oppoprtunity to education they otherwise would not receive.

In Marare there are 33 children out of 400 that are sponsored into the CDP. That's less than 10%. The need is GREAT. Families of children registered through CDP have to meet certain requirements as far as basic needs for the child. In some households, some of the children are registered, but others aren't. It's difficult for families living in poverty to provide these basic needs for all children.



Leaving the village of Marare on our last day, most team members had children approach us saying in their limited English "sponsor please, sponsor please". They were desperate for a sponsor family. That was heart breaking, but our promise to them was to encourage more families from Canada to do that.

For $38 a month, you can.


We had the personal joy of meeting our sponsor children (and those of our Northgate families), seeing their homes (generally a mud shack with little or no furniture), and communicating to them through an interpreter. That made it all more than worth it.

For more information, visit the FH website at www.fhcanada.org/Sponsorship/Mbale-Uganda-Children

This lists all the children in the Mbale area (a number of different communities including Marare). If you would like a child specifically from Marare, contact FH Canada at 1-800-667-0605, and ask for child sponsorship in Marare, Uganda.