History of Uganda

Uganda is one of the African countries situated in the eastern part of Africa. It is a very beautiful country which was formally a British colony and gained its independence on the 9th October 1962 but is currently going through issues of all sorts poverty, homelessness, instability and HIV/AIDS being just some of them.

Since independence in 1962 political instability hit Uganda up to 1986. Many people were killed during this time and many children were left without parents or guardians. The Aids epidemic has also claimed over 500,000 people and caused helplessness to over 1,500,000 orphans in Uganda since 1981. To-date insurgency in the North continues to claim lives, hundreds of children have no shelter, and hence no education or hope because their parents are either dead or lost. Although Uganda now has a stable government and God is awakening the church to do something to help the situation, poverty is still rampant in Uganda, yet there is no Government welfare fund to assist unemployed people and lots of children are leading very rough lives even to the point of death.

The Uganda Government does not have any social fund at all to help out people in need and Ugandans who are not employed are dependent on relatives and friends, and those without family are at the mercy of God.

God has inspired us with a vision to help children get a better place of residence in a home from where they can be assisted with their day to day living needs like inner healing, shelter, education, feeding, treatment, nurturing and encouraged to have hope in God regardless of their circumstances etc.

Abba Father’s House is a Christian charity formed to create homes for disadvantaged children such as orphans and children whose parents have abandoned them. We have a commitment to give them hope and to encourage them to look to Jesus for an assured future and by so doing, the children can develop a God dependent attitude which casts out fear and heals their hurts.

Our aims and Obligations

We are pregnant with a Godly vision to parent children, especially orphans by meeting their spiritual, physical and financial needs. We need adequate resources to provide for their needs for shelter, food, health care and their emotional, educational and practical needs so that even though they do not have natural parents or carers, they too can have decent lives and hope for a better future.

The name ABBA Father is inspired by the Holy Spirit in the book of Romans

Romans 8:15-17 ‘For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ if we indeed suffer with Him that we may be Glorified together.’

The Bible also says in Romans 8:32 that the reason why God did not spare His own Son (Jesus Christ) from the cross was to freely give us all things with Him.

The above scriptures and many more can help to bring hope to whosoever takes them to heart. Although we have natural fathers and mothers, God is our main father who is well able to raise us up from any circumstances even when our parents have died or abandoned us.

Juliet