Helping Hands FamilyChildren Aid Ministry
The Helping Hands Family Children Aid Ministry was founded by Christine Fenboeck, Austrian Certified Children Nurse, who has been taking care of orphans in Uganda/East Africa since 1999.
Hope for orphans in Uganda
- Helping Hands Family started as the private initiative of Christine Fenboeck, a certified children nurse. It is Initiative Future's initiative to help and educate orphans in Uganda, which constitutes its social purpose.
- There are more than two million orphaned children in Uganda, some statistics even talk about four millions of children who lost their parents. One of their greatest wishes is going to school.
- Because scholars in Uganda have to pay high school fees and are required to purchase uniforms and school materials, they can only attend school if there is enough family income to cover the costs. In the case of the death of one or both parents, children usually also lose their place at school. Enabling these children to receive education gives them hope for a brighter future.
- Helping Hands Family provides school fees and personally cares for orphaned children. What is more, we seek to help abandoned wives or mothers sick with AIDS. We want to be like a family for them, giving them love and hope.
- Helping Hands Family desires to comfort the abandoned and orphaned children, to educate them and to teach them to walk in faith. Our vision is to raise well-educated and devoted people who are willing and able to serve their own community. They shall have the possibility to become self-reliant adults who themselves will be able to help their fellow citizens.
Helping others to help
- The overall principle is to enable the Ugandan people themselves to help their fellow citizens. We serve as the Helping Hands.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, «Whom
shall I send?
And who will go for us?»
And I said, «Here am I, send me!» Isaiah 6:8
