Amani Baby Cottage

Amani Baby Cottage was established in 2003 to provide care for orphaned and abandoned children. ABC is located in Jinja, Uganda near the shores of Lake Victoria.

The facility can house up to 60 children ages birth to 5 years. Children are referred through local authorities and the Ugandan social welfare system. Many are orphaned when their parents die due to AIDS, birth complications or other factors. Some are abandoned in the hospital after birth. Others are found abandoned at taxi stops, in latrines, or on the street.

The Cottage has as its goal that each one of them will find a place with a loving family. To date, a total of 203 children have been cared for in our home. 37 of these have been reunited with extended family members, 83 have been fostered into new families, and 16 have been transferred to other placements. The Baby Cottage does not refuse children in fragile health, thus 20 children have died while in our care (stats of December 2008).

Amani Baby Cottage employs about thirty Ugandan workers to care for the children. They also enjoy the assistance of a number of volunteers from around the world.

They operate under the covering of Total Family Outreach, a non-profit US corporation. Amani Baby Cottage operates by faith in a loving, heavenly Father who has promised to take up the cause of the orphan.

More on their story at the Amani Baby Cottage website.