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In Wandago, Uganda, the local school was struggling. Teacher and father Maganda remembers a time when children skipped classes to work for their parents' businesses, drug use was common, and "a lot of child abuse tendencies such as neglect" were rife. Find out how he turned this around.

Children on the Edge has been investing in Early Childhood Development (ECD) for marginalised children in different areas of the world since 2000.

Children on the Edge support six Child Rights Clubs across Jinja and, more recently, Karamoja in Uganda. Find out what they do and the impact they have.

Debra Laxton from the University of Chichester reflects on her trip to Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda with Children on the Edge. Working with our team, Debra has been helping to develop and evaluate a play-based programme assessment framework and tool that we are rolling out for our early years programme in Uganda.

Muhammad Wasay Mir, award-winning journalist and videographer, spent some time in Uganda last year, interviewing children and teachers from the communities we support in Jinja. He tells us about his experiences of filming his short documentary, ‘The Children of Jinja’.

Loru is 21 and lives in Karamoja, Uganda. He's been supported by our Child Protection Teams here and seen a huge change, for the better.

11-year-old Ngorok Nivea is a proud Child Rights Club member in Karamoja, Uganda and after joining her local Child Rights Club, is finally achieving her dream of going to school.

The Children on the Edge team has written a brand new book - 'Dembe’s Story' - an illustrated story book designed to introduce topics of body boundaries, child protection and staying safe to preschool aged children.

Our innovative models of education and child protection have been used in new places, bringing sustainable change on a wider scale.

We are delighted to announce that our early years education programme for Congolese refugee children in Uganda will be benefiting from a £400,000 award in 2024, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Guest blog from Sarah Ndlovu, our International Education Specialist about how we’re breaking the mould, and using play to create an effective early years assessment tool in Uganda.

Babra Nandawula, our social worker in Uganda describes the incredible change she has witnessed in communities in Jinja over the past ten years.