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Our founding story, mission, values, and governance credentials.
Founding story
Hazel & Amara Child Support Centre was founded in 2022 by two mothers whose own experience caring for children with cancer opened their eyes to the immense challenges faced by families affected by childhood chronic illness.
Mission
To provide holistic, compassionate, and evidence-based psychosocial support and family economic empowerment to children living with cancer, sickle cell disease, epilepsy, Type 1 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and congenital heart disease with a differentiated focus on adolescent disclosure support and caregiver economic empowerment for children affected by HIV/AIDS and to the families and caregivers who sustain them.
Vision
A Uganda in which no family is destroyed by a child's chronic illness.
Our values
Every decision is assessed first against its impact on the child - dignity, wellbeing, and voice take precedence over convenience or preference.
Warmth and empathy paired with rigour, evidence, and accountability - not in tension, both required.
The families we serve are partners, not beneficiaries. Our role is to amplify their agency, not substitute our judgement for theirs.
Every shilling entrusted to us belongs to the children and families we serve, and is managed accordingly.
A caregiver's emotional and economic stability is inseparable from a child's recovery. We measure family-level outcomes, not just child-level outputs.
We report what is true, not what is flattering, and acknowledge failures as readily as successes.
A child with epilepsy deserves the same quality of support as a child with cancer, regardless of condition, status, ethnicity, or religion.
Registered name: Hazel & Amara Child Support Centre (HACSC)
Registration status: Registered Ugandan NGO - Reg. No. 7077
Location: Mpererwe, Kampala, Uganda
Oversight: Board of Directors and Advisory Council
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