Kobwin Children’s Centre

Kobwin Children’s Centre

After years of preparation, our Kobwin Children’s Centre. By His grace, we are now helping to bring the Fatherhood of God on a full-time basis to former child soldiers and others affected (“Invisible Children”) by the Lord’s Resistance Army atrocities in northern Uganda. Twenty-one of these young people, sometimes called “returnees”, moved into our Kobwin Centre in March of 2010 and formed a family group with a full-time family father and mother. Each has  received intense educational remediation and discipleship in the context of family. In January of this year (2012), we received eleven more returnees and otherwise affected children and began our second family group.  Our next major step is to increase our vocational training and eventually establish a vocational school.

The vision to establish a center in the east of Uganda grew out of the desperate situation observed when New Hope Uganda staff and children went to Soroti as Mission Hope Soroti. New Hope ministered there to those suffering in the aftermath of the invasion of the area by Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in 2003.

From that time to now, New Hope staff have been reaching out to the region. New Hope has been very involved in the reconciliation movement that has helped bring healing to many. In 2008,  New Hope narrowed its focus to returnees from the area of Amuria. A series of week-long camp experiences knitted us together with the Amuria community and nearly 60 of the returnees living there. Today, the returnees who have not moved to the Kobwin Center are provided school fees, counseling and tutoring by New Hope staff in Amuria. This presence enables New Hope to be a part of the healing process in both the returnees and the communities they live in.

Twenty additional fatherless and orphaned children from the surrounding community are also a part of the Kobwin family as day students in our primary school or receiving school fees and materials to attend local secondary schools. Over 50 children are not a part of the Kobwin Children’s Centre.

If you would like to partner with us directly in bringing the healing Fatherhood of God to  the life of one these young people through regular financial assistance (Kobwin Sponsorship), please contact our sponsorship department through our “Contact Us” link.  General donations to Kobwin are also welcomed and will be used for highest priority at the time (Donate).