Our Impact
Success Stories
Testimony
For many years, Rose lived quietly with pain she could not easily explain. After a difficult childbirth, she developed a birth injury that left her leaking urine. What should have been a season of joy became a long journey of shame, fear, and isolation.
She withdrew from community life. She avoided church gatherings, family visits, and public places. At home, she struggled to care for her children the way she wanted. The condition affected her confidence, her relationships, and her peace. Like many women living with birth injuries, Rose believed her suffering would never end.
Her turning point came when she heard about the Catholic Religious Sisters Health Care Initiative Uganda birth injury repair camp in Fort Portal. With courage, she came for help. At the camp, she was received with compassion, respect, and understanding. The sisters listened to her story without judgment. The medical team assessed her condition and prepared her for treatment.
Rose underwent successful birth injury repair surgery. Beyond the operation, she received counseling, spiritual support, post-operative care, and follow-up. For the first time in years, she began to feel seen, valued, and hopeful again.
Today, Rose is healing with dignity. She has returned to her family with renewed confidence. She cares for her children, participates in family life, and is rebuilding relationships that had been affected by years of pain and silence. Her home is more peaceful, supportive, and hopeful.
Her healing has also changed how people around her understand birth injuries. Her family and community now know that birth injuries are treatable and that women should seek medical care early. Rose’s story is a reminder that timely care restores more than the body. It restores dignity, hope, family harmony, and the courage to live again.
CRSHCI-U continues to walk with women like Rose, offering compassionate care, birth injury repair, counseling, screening, community sensitization, and follow-up support.
With continued support, more women in Uganda will move from pain to healing, from shame to confidence, and from silence to restored life.
Name changed to protect the dignity and privacy of the beneficiary.
About the Orphans
Every child deserves love, protection, education, and a safe place to grow. Yet many orphans and vulnerable children carry burdens beyond their age. Some have lost parents. Others live with relatives who struggle to provide food, school needs, care, and support.
Loss of parental care affects confidence, education, health, and belonging. Some children withdraw. Others miss school because they lack fees, uniforms, books, or basic needs. Many feel forgotten, even when they still dream.
Through school and community sensitization, CRSHCI-U helps families, caregivers, teachers, leaders, and community members understand these needs. Sessions promote child protection, positive parenting, school retention, support, and shared responsibility.
One child’s story reflects the journey of many. After losing care, a young child was left with relatives who had limited resources. The child missed school, lacked materials, and became quiet about the future.
During sensitization, sisters spoke about protecting children, keeping them in school, listening to their needs, and preventing neglect, child labour, early marriage, and abuse. The message helped caregivers see that supporting an orphan is a community duty.
After the session, sisters visited the family, listened, and offered guidance. The child received encouragement, support, and help to return to school with confidence. Caregivers were guided on care and creating a loving home.
Today, the child is hopeful, active, and confident. School attendance has improved. The family is more supportive. The child feels valued and encouraged to learn.
This is the change CRSHCI-U seeks through sensitization: aware families, protective communities, and children growing with dignity, safety, and hope.
Charity Work
Charity work is more than giving material support. It’s seeing the dignity of every person, listening to their struggles, and walking with them toward hope.
In many communities, families face hardship that affects education, safety, and wellbeing. Some mothers struggle after illness, poverty, or family breakdown. Some children lack school requirements and emotional support. Some teenage mothers feel rejected and unsure of how to rebuild their lives.
Through charity work, CRSHCI-U reaches out with compassion and support. The Initiative works with sisters, health workers, caregivers, schools, families and community leaders to identify people in need and respond with dignity and care.
This support includes guidance, counseling, health education, school sensitization, family visits, referrals for medical care, emotional support, and linking vulnerable people to services. Charity work helps meet needs, return children to school, support teenage mothers, and encourage caregivers to protect children responsibly.
The impact is seen in changed lives. A child who had lost hope returns to school. A mother who felt abandoned finds encouragement. A teenage mother gains confidence to care for her child and plan for the future. A family learns to support one another with patience. A community becomes more aware of the vulnerable and begins to respond with responsibility.
Charity work strengthens communities. It reduces stigma, builds trust, promotes kindness, and reminds people that no one should suffer alone. When communities are sensitized, they protect children, support women, guide youth, care for the sick, and stand with families in crisis.
This is the heart of CRSHCI-U’s mission: to restore dignity, renew hope, and help vulnerable people feel valued again.
