Projects
Our Three Pillars of Impact
Our Model: Rescue, Restore, Release
Biojemmss delivers a holistic model of care built around three pillars: Initial Response, Restore, and Release. These pillars ensure that children are protected in moments of crisis, families are strengthened for long-term safety, and caregivers are equipped to build sustainable futures.
Most of our initiatives are delivered from our Rukungiri Branch, with transitional support in Kampala and future expansion planned at our Kanyinya site.
Our Three Pillars
To make our work clear and accessible, Biojemmss’ initiatives are organised under three pillars. These pillars reflect the journey children and families take from crisis to stability and long-term independence.
Rescue: Initial Response
Protecting children in crisis
Restore: Family Strengthening
Stabilising families and reducing risk
Release: Sustainable Futures
Equipping families for long-term independence
Most of our initiatives are delivered from our Rukungiri Branch, with transitional support in Kampala and future expansion planned at our Kanyinya site.
Initial Response
Protecting children in crisis
Our Initial Response pillar focuses on urgent situations where children are at immediate risk. The aim is to secure safety quickly, provide emergency support, and create a pathway into longer-term restoration where needed.
Residential Safety Home
We operate a small residential home for younger children who need immediate safety from abuse, exploitation, or neglect. This is short-term, crisis-focused care, designed to protect children while we work with families, communities, and authorities to create safe, sustainable solutions.
Prison Ministry & Child-Headed Households
We support mothers incarcerated with their young children by providing weekly emotional support and monthly hampers containing essentials such as soap and powdered milk. When parents are arrested, children are often left unsupervised at home; our team locates these children and works with authorities and community members to ensure their safety.
Linked to this work, Biojemmss supports child-headed households where older children care for younger siblings. We provide regular check-ins, material assistance, and community linkage to protect these children and reduce their vulnerability.
Retracing & Rehabilitating
Fondly known in Uganda as “retracing and rehabilitating”, this initiative begins within our Initial Response pillar. We work with children living on the streets to trace family members and provide crisis accommodation while reintegration plans are developed.
When a child’s home environment requires deeper intervention, the case transitions to our Restore (Family Strengthening) team for ongoing support, risk reduction, and monitoring.
Emergency Hampers
We deliver up to ten hampers per week to children and families in crisis. These hampers aim to alleviate extreme hardship and prevent families from resorting to desperate measures such as child labour, abandonment, neglect, or other forms of exploitation.
Each hamper varies according to need but may include items such as soap, toothpaste, sanitary pads, flour, sugar, washing powder, baby clothes, bedding, and children’s clothes.
Emergency Relief Response
Biojemmss responds swiftly to urgent situations where children are placed at risk due to sudden housing issues, unexpected community needs, or other emergencies. Our emergency relief efforts provide immediate support to help families regain stability and safety.
Family Strengthening: Restore
Stabilising families and reducing risk
The Restore pillar focuses on strengthening families, reducing abuse and neglect, and building safe homes where children can thrive. Many cases enter Restore after an Initial Response intervention.
Family Strengthening Programme
We identify children living in families and situations of significant risk and work intensively with caregivers and communities to create positive solutions. From Buyanja to Bwanbara, Biojemmss currently supports over 60 families in rural Uganda with tailored input designed to move children out of abuse and exploitation into freedom for them and their entire families.
All of these children are now in school, while their parents receive support and training from our qualified staff.
Educational Workshops
We deliver workshops on topics such as parenting, domestic violence, substance misuse, safety planning, and child protection. We also empower caregivers through business skills training and the creation of peer saving groups, helping them to build resilience and plan for their children’s futures.
Safeguarding Training
Biojemmss provides child protection training to community partners and local organisations. This strengthens the standard of care for children, encourages partnership working, and increases the number of safe spaces available to children across the region.
Children’s Camps & Conferences - CAMP VIDEO
We run annual camps in Rukungiri for children aged five to fourteen, partnering with local churches and ministering to hundreds of children and their families. These camps and rural conferences help us build strong relationships with communities, support children in their faith journeys, and identify other needs as they arise.
Foster Families
As part of our family-strengthening work, we create community-based foster placements. When children are experiencing abuse and cannot safely remain at home, we first explore wider family, neighbours, and friends. Where this is not possible, we identify foster families—often within local churches or communities—who can provide safe, family-based care.
Biojemmss offers a holistic package of support to these foster families, ensuring children remain in families and communities rather than institutions.
Sustainable Futures: Release
Equipping families for long-term independence
The Release pillar focuses on economic stability and long-term freedom, helping caregivers to provide for their children without relying on ongoing emergency support.
Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives
We help families start small livestock businesses by providing training, support to prepare their premises, and a pair of animals to breed and sell. This creates a sustainable source of income and enables caregivers to make safe choices for their children.
While families are being prepared for this initiative, Biojemmss may temporarily cover school fees for children removed from abusive circumstances, until caregivers are back on their feet.
Land Loaning
Biojemmss leases out part of our land without charge to vulnerable adults with children. This enables them to grow crops, sell produce, and provide for their families. In turn, Biojemmss is sometimes gifted items such as sweet potatoes for our residential children from these projects.
Savings Groups & Economic Empowerment
Through our workshops and community engagement, caregivers are supported to join peer saving groups and learn basic business and financial skills. These groups help families to plan, save, and invest in their children’s futures, reducing reliance on crisis support.
Youth Transition Home
In Kampala, we provide a small, supportive home for older young people who are studying at university or undertaking vocational training. This transitional space helps them move confidently into adulthood and independence, embodying the “Release” aspect of our model.
Where We Work
Biojemmss Uganda works across three locations:
- Rukungiri – Our main base, including the residential safety home, offices, and community hub. Most community-based initiatives, including camps, workshops, family strengthening, and prison outreach, are delivered from here.
- Kampala – A transitional home for older young people in education or training, supporting their journey into independence.
- Kanyinya – Newly purchased land where we are developing facilities to meet growing demand and strengthen long-term sustainability.
Across all locations, our focus is on rescue, restoration, and family-based care, not long-term institutionalisation.