Second Annual

Ilt has been about 6 years since Brother Claude Leroux got involved in the KOP (Kisubi Orphans Project) that was run by Mrs. Margret Kalema (a nurse, social worker and counselor), Mr. Fred Lukyamuzi (counselor and social worker), and Dr. Margaret Lubega from Kyabnogo University. 
Margret Kalema and Fred Lukyamuzi are part of a trained group that is to attend to orphans, some of whom are HIV positive, and their care-takers in the rather large Kisubi area that reaches out to 30 km away from Kisubi.
While at the nursery, orphans would sometimes be given some training in sewing, knitting, simple tool-handling, cooking and gardening so they don't feel idle or useless wile on the road to recovery.
KOP is registered with the Uganda Ministry of Health and TASO. KOP presently cares for over 50 HIV positive orphans. We choose to attend to them at their own places of residence until the Nursery is built. Our prionity is to ensure that those children get a family upbringing, and not an "orphanage" environment. KOP is providing food supplements that are needed for them, organizing HIV/AIDS sensitization seminars, referring HIV positive children to government hospitals where they can get treatment like ARVs, providing a small income, generating activities among their homes, and participating in decent burials when we lose any of our children.