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Welcome to Dwelling Places Dwelling Places is a charity in Uganda. Uganda is a country in Africa. We are in the UK Dwelling Places is in Africa

Kampala, the capital city Welcome to Dwelling Places Here are photos from Uganda: Dancing Fruit Kampala, the capital city River

Welcome to Dwelling Places Dwelling Places is run by a lady called Rita.   Dwelling Places helps children and families who are living on the streets, or in poor areas called slums.  

Street Children... A child who has no home. The child lives on the streets instead. What is a street child? There are lots of reasons, for example, One or both of their parents may not be well One or both parents may have died Their parents or family may not look after them well They may be very poor and have no money and no house People in the area they come from may be fighting each other and it’s not safe There may be no food or water where they live Why do children live on the streets?

Some live on their own Some find friends to live with Some live with family, like brothers, sisters or cousins Some live with their parents Do the children live by themselves? They find a place to sleep at night time, for example, Up a tree In a shop doorway Where do the children sleep at night?

They do different tasks, for example, Begging Collecting old water bottles to sell for recycling Stealing Going through rubbish bins to find food How do the children survive? Sadly, yes there are lots of dangers, for example, Hunger Getting hurt Getting ill And many more Is it dangerous for the children?

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. Dwelling Places follows four steps when helping the children. Welcome to Dwelling Places Step 1: Find the children that do not have a home, and let them live in Dwelling Places’ home

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places Step 2: Teach the children to sleep in a bed, get washed and dressed, brush their teeth and sit down to eat daily meals Send the children to school

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places Step 3: Help the children’s families

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places Step 4: Help the children find a nice house with their families