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FAQs
What services does Biojemmss provide?
Biojemmss delivers its work through three interconnected pillars: Rescue, Restore, and Release.
Rescue focuses on protecting children in crisis through emergency intervention, residential safety, child protection, and immediate support.
Restore strengthens families and communities through education, safeguarding, foster care, family support, and preventative programmes that reduce abuse and exploitation.
Release helps families and young people build sustainable futures through livelihoods support, savings groups, training, and transitional services that promote long-term independence. Together, these pillars help children and families move from crisis to safety, from safety to stability, and from stability to lasting freedom.
What are our values?
Child-Centered: We put the safety, wellbeing, and best interests of children at the heart of everything we do.
Servant-Led: We work alongside children, families, communities, and partners with humility, respect, and a spirit of service.
Responsible: We are committed to integrity, accountability, professionalism, and the responsible stewardship of all entrusted to us.
Unashamedly Christian: We are motivated by our Christian faith and seek to reflect God's love, justice, hope, and compassion in all that we do.
Unique: We remain true to our history, identity, and the experiences that have shaped Biojemmss.
Adaptable: We embrace learning, innovation, and positive change to better meet the needs of children and families.
Future-Focused: We are committed to creating sustainable change that enables children, families, and communities to thrive for generations to come.
What is the Biojemmss Rescue–Restore–Release model?
The Biojemmss Rescue-Restore-Release model is the framework that guides all of our work. It reflects our belief that lasting change requires more than responding to immediate crises. Children must be protected from harm, families and communities must be strengthened, and caregivers and young people must be equipped to build sustainable futures. By addressing both immediate needs and the underlying causes of vulnerability, we help children move from crisis to safety, from safety to stability, and from stability to lasting freedom.
What sort of children do you work with?
We work with children, and their families, where we believe they are at risk. This may include children who are:
- Abused or neglected
- Living in conflict with the law
- Heading up their households
- Abandoned or in need of alternative family care (due to parental incarceration, for example)
- Living in terrible labour conditions
- Living on the streets
- Affected by armed conflict or natural disasters
- Living in hard-to-reach areas
- Affected by disability or HIV/AIDS
Why are so many children in Uganda at risk?
Children in Uganda can face significant risks due to a combination of poverty, family breakdown, limited access to education and healthcare, substance misuse, domestic violence, and a lack of formal social welfare support.
These challenges can make children more vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, child labour, trafficking, and early marriage. When families are unable to meet their children's basic needs, children may be left without adequate care or protection. Some are forced to live on the streets, while others experience unsafe living situations that place their wellbeing and future at risk.
Biojemmss was established to address these challenges by protecting children, strengthening families, and supporting communities to create safer environments for children to thrive. Through our Rescue, Restore, and Release model, we provide immediate support during times of crisis, help families build stability, and create opportunities for long-term independence and lasting change. Our goal is not only to respond to immediate needs, but to help break cycles of vulnerability so that children can grow up safe, valued, educated, and empowered to reach their full potential.
Is Biojemmss an Elim initiative?
Biojemmss operated under an umbrella arrangement with Elim Missions, UK until 2017, when it registered as an independent charitable organisation. We remain on the approved list of organisations with Elim Missions.
Is Biojemmss a business or a charity?
Biojemmss is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation.
Where does your funding come from?
The majority of our funding comes from supporters in the UK, with additional contributions from individuals within Uganda. People can give through one-off donations or by setting up a Direct Debit for ongoing support using the donate button on our website.
We also receive income through fundraising activities, community events, and special appeals. Our annual Christmas appeal, for example, helps us respond to priority needs throughout the year. Further support comes from presentations, local fundraising initiatives, and collection boxes placed in nearby shops.
This combination of regular giving, one-off donations, and community-led fundraising helps ensure that our work remains stable, accountable, and able to meet the long-term needs of the children in our care.
If I give to Biojemmss, what will my money be spent on?
Every donation helps Biojemmss protect children, strengthen families, and create opportunities for long-term independence. Your support enables us to respond to children in crisis, provide residential safety where needed, strengthen families through community-based programmes, deliver safeguarding and educational initiatives, support young people as they transition into adulthood, and develop sustainable livelihood opportunities for vulnerable families.
Donations also help us continue developing our Kanyinya site, which will strengthen our long-term capacity to serve children and communities.
We are committed to transparency, accountability, and responsible stewardship of every donation we receive. Robust financial controls are in place to ensure funds are used appropriately, and our Board of Trustees provides oversight of all spending. Biojemmss is externally audited in both Uganda and the United Kingdom.
We strive to use resources wisely and efficiently, maximising the impact of every gift. Rather than providing short-term fixes alone, we focus on creating lasting change that helps children and families move from crisis to safety, from safety to stability, and from stability to lasting freedom.
What is unique about Biojemmss?
We asked our staff and beneficiaries what they thought of Biojemmss and here are some of their thoughts:
- A real family not an institution
- A place of second chances
- Raising leaders
- Comfort zone
- Nurturing
- Loving
- Caring
- Child empowerment
- Focused on the child
Biojemmss stands out in several ways:
What makes Biojemmss different?
- Rescue, Restore, Release: Our work is built around a clear, holistic model that helps children and families move from crisis to safety, from safety to stability, and from stability to lasting freedom.
- Long-Term Commitment: We are committed to supporting children and families beyond immediate crises, helping them build the foundations for sustainable and independent futures.
- Locally Led: Biojemmss is delivered by an experienced Ugandan team who understand the communities they serve and work closely with local families, churches, schools, organisations, and authorities.
- Family and Community Focus: Wherever possible, we work to strengthen families and communities so that children can grow up in safe, nurturing environments rather than relying on long-term institutional care.
- Holistic Support: We address the practical, emotional, educational, social, and spiritual needs of children and families, recognising that lasting change requires more than meeting immediate needs.
- Developing Future Leaders: We believe in the potential of every child and young person. By providing opportunities, encouragement, and support, we help children grow into confident adults who can contribute positively to their communities.
- Sustainable Impact: Through safeguarding, family strengthening, livelihoods support, training, and community partnerships, we focus on creating lasting change that continues long after an intervention has ended.