History

New Hope Uganda started with the establishment of the Kasana Children’s Centre in the heart of Uganda’s “Luweero Triangle” in 1986.  Originally, its purpose was to care for orphans created during the war between Museveni (the current Ugandan President) and the late President Milton Obote.  Luweero had been the hot spot of the war, and hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children had lost their lives on and around New Hope’s property.

After one and a half years of clearing and cultivating the land donated to the ministry by the Mukubira family, registering the new organization with the government (which was recovering from years of chaos as a result of the war and the changeover in power), and gathering a small team of staff, the leaders of the Kasana Children’s Centre took on the first 10 children in March of 1988.  Five street boys and a family of five-three boys and two girls, were brought in to a mud building that served as home for the staff and children, as the school, church, office, and clinic.

From those very humble beginnings, the Lord has blessed the work at New Hope.  Well over a thousand orphaned and abandoned children have received love and care from godly, committed staff members over the last 22 years since that first intake of children.