Our story

Dear friends of Happiness Children's Care and Development Centre
In 1981, I was 2 years old when a serious tragedy occurred where I lost both of my parents in a critical accident. I couldn't realise that I was an orphan until I found myself on the streets of Jinja Uganda at the age of 14.

I was picked up by a well-wisher who took me to his home and started taking care of me by providing food and all other basic needs.  God helped me and through that hustling I was able to complete my second level of education in August 2003.

So one day I had gone in my garden in Namasere, my home village, the garden was large in that I hired some ladies from the other villages to help me in weeding my maize and groundnuts garden.
During the process, there came an old woman who used to come with her five years old granddaughter. She used to come with the girl every time but the girl used to cry before her grandmother could finish up her portion. Then one day I got concerned and moved near to the old woman, her grandmother. I asked Daada (meaning grandmother) "what makes the girl cry every day you come to the garden?"

The old woman told me that the young girl lost both parents of HIV/AIDs when she was two years old which made me remember my past story. I decided to sweat talk her and requested her to allow me adopt the girl and take her to school. Eventually, she accepted, and I took the girl to my home since 2012 to date.

I placed her in a school called Bugubo Butambula primary school, in Bugiri where she completed her primary school. The young girl performed well, and she is expecting to join secondary school to continue with her studies.

Happiness children care and development centre (H.C.C.D.C) started when I took Juliet (the young girl) to check on her grandmother (Daada). The grandmother thanked me for the good heart and requested me if there is any way we can help with a growing number of orphaned children to improve the standards of living in their community. We told her we would wish to but financial problems would not allow.

Later on according to what I had gone through, I got inspired by the grandmother's words and this marked the beginning of the Happiness Children Care and Development Center to support orphans and vulnerable children, attain quality education and health care in the communities around Bugiri District and Uganda at large.

We are sincerely grateful for your interest in helping us, perhaps with an offer to donate to help support school and provide quality education to the vulnerable children in our community.

Robert Ojambo

Hallo! Greetings in Jesus’ name  

This is Elizabeth Akello, she  is eleven years old (11years) she joined us just of recent and she has  been staying with her grandmother of eighty-one years old (81years) who  died and left her alone at home. She is deaf and dumb. I met her while  we were on home-to-home gospel preaching and by luck we saw her and the  situation she was living in was not admirable to an extend that made us  shade tears because she completely had nothing like food to eat, staying  in a tiny grass thatched house and full of leakages during rainy  season. 

I really got touched even though I am not also well off.  It couldn’t stop me from adopting her immediately. Elizabeth lost her  parents in 2013 when her father cam back home late at night totally  drunk, they had had some misunderstandings with her mother during day  time so he came back well prepared with a panga in his hands and  immediately slaughtered Elizabeth’s mother to death.  

Realizing  what he had done after a short time, he got a rope went outside and  hanged himself by that time she was two years; therefore, I took her up  and I stay with her right now on addition to the other twenty-six  orphaned children of happiness children care and development orphanage

And this is Benard Musasizi a mother died of HIV at birth her mother  came while pregnant and rented a house at neighborhood and no body knew  her background, so one day at around 1:00PM she started experiencing  labor periods being the close neighbors we carried her to the nearby  health center and by bad luck she was referred for an operation and it  was successful. 

Surprisingly after Benard’s mother nursing the  wound for two months she couldn’t make it. She passed on and left Benard  with us without knowing the father nor his maternal relatives. My wife  took him up to our house and because he was very young got a baby seater  for him for a special care. 

By grace of God, he is now three years and doing well, we thank God for protecting and providing for him. 

This one is Shadrack Wamala, he is ten years old who was my pupil at  York Primary school he used to doze in class and was so dense that  whenever I marked his book or asked him a question failed so I could ask  myself what caused him do like that not until I had to interact with  him and realized that he was staying with his sister of seventeen years  because their parents had died of food poisoning that was planed by a  step mother.  

Due to that sad news, I picked him up and he is  among twenty-nine orphaned children of happiness Children care and  development Centre.