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Rehabilitation and Resettlenent
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A high number of children from Kampala streets and adjacent slums have passed through UCC. They have been rehabilitated and resettled either with their families or in the communities. All children were resettled with a profession or being socially and psychologically ready for reintegration.
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UCC works closely with Kampiringisa National Rehabilitation Centre (KNRC) which is a Government institution hosting children and teenagers considered as delinquents. UCC collaborates with KNRC in order to offer a training to these children enabling them to learn a skill and offering counselling and psychological services.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict lockdown in the country, Uganda Children’s Centre rehabilitated and trained 61 street children referred to the Centre by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), as otherwise these children would have remained in the streets which was forbidden.
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UCC carries out many activities aiming at rehabilitating the street-children in Kampala. This involves counselling, the shelter at UCC centre until a resettlement in the family or the community is possible in order to cover their basic needs of housing, nutrition and health. UCC also offers them the opportunity to participate in vocational activities in order to learn a skill. Regular recreational and social activities are also organised by the social workers of UCC in order to help them in their rehabilitation.
UCC has a dormitory in which 50 girls and 50 boys can be welcomed.
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UCC receives children who have issues to do with family such as losing one or both parents, being chased from land, incest, lack of financial support and many others. Others come as child mothers with a lot of trauma, drug addicts, sicknesses and other disabilities.
