Our Work
Every programme below exists because a real household needed exactly that. Here’s how each one works.
- Health & care
Elder Health & Home Care
Primary health care, palliative home care, and HIV/ART support — delivered where our elders actually are, not where a clinic happens to be. This programme serves vulnerable elderly people aged 60 and above, many of whom have no reliable way to reach a health facility on their own. Our team conducts regular home visits to check on chronic conditions, provide basic primary care, and support HIV testing, counselling, and ART adherence for those living with HIV. For elders facing serious or terminal illness, we provide palliative home care — pain management, comfort, and dignity in their final months, in their own home rather than alone in a hospital ward. This is currently our most active programme, and the one most directly tied to our 2028 target of setting up 5,000 households — health care is usually the first and most urgent need we address when we reach a new household.
Who it serves
Elders & dependents living with chronic illness or HIV
Visit frequency
Monthly
Status
Ongoing
- Basic Needs
Household Stability
The basics that make everything else possible. Many of the elders we support live in households with almost nothing — no mattress, no proper bedding, no reliable food source, sometimes not even basic cooking utensils. This programme provides exactly that: mattresses, blankets, bedsheets, food supplies, and cooking utensils, delivered directly to households identified through our outreach visits. It’s deliberately unglamorous work, but it’s often the difference between an elder sleeping on a bare floor and sleeping with dignity. Household Stability visits are frequently the first contact point before other programmes — like Elder Health & Home Care — can meaningfully follow up, because it’s hard to focus on anyone’s health when they don’t have a place to rest properly.
Who it serves
Elder-headed households facing food insecurity
Households reached
200+
Status
Ongoing
- Children Welfare
Children & dependents
Elders are often raising children too — grandchildren, orphaned relatives, or children of their own who never left. This programme exists because those children’s needs don’t stop just because the household is elder-headed. We provide education subsidies (covering books, pens, uniforms, and shoes where needed) so a child’s schooling isn’t interrupted by their guardian’s circumstances, alongside caregiver support for the elders raising them. In several of the households we’ve visited, an elder in their 80s, 90s, or older is the sole provider for young children — this programme is our way of making sure that responsibility doesn’t fall entirely on someone who is themselves in need of care.
Who it serves
Children & dependents in elder-headed households
Children supported
50+
Status
Ongoing
- Community
Community Protection
Support for survivors of violence, and prevention work that starts before violence happens. This programme provides care and support for survivors of gender-based violence within the communities we serve, including elders and their dependents who may have experienced abuse, exploitation, or neglect. Some of the individuals in our care carry the weight of past trauma alongside the challenges of aging or disability — this programme is where we try to meet that need directly, connecting survivors to whatever support and safety we can help arrange. We also run school-based prevention programmes, working with young people before patterns of violence take hold, and using education as a long-term protective measure for the next generation.
Who it serves
Survivors of GBV; school-age children
model
Through schools
Status
Ongoing
- Foundations
Capacity & Partnerships
The unglamorous work that makes the other four programmes possible. This isn’t a programme our beneficiaries see directly — it’s what happens behind the scenes so the other four can actually reach people: training our field staff and volunteers, building relationships with partner organizations, government bodies, and donors, and mobilizing communities to understand and support the work we do. Our partnership with organizations like the Uganda Red Cross Society and MTN MoMo — visible most publicly through our SaveAndHeal Run26 charity marathon — is a direct product of this programme. As we scale toward reaching 5,000 households by 2028, this is also the programme responsible for making sure our growth doesn’t outpace our ability to actually deliver — expanding into Eastern, Northern, and Central Uganda will depend heavily on the partnerships and capacity built here first.
Who it serves
The organization & partner network
Partners
10+
Status
Ongoing
