Caring Hands


Caring Hands is made up of volunteers who assist families living in poverty in our neighborhood, giving them new hope for the future. Financial and material donations have made it possible to help many families.
The goal is to break the cycle of poverty in families.
    This is done by giving families:
  • material, psycho-social and spiritual support
  • advice about health and hygiene
  • means of developing a livelihood
  • networking, giving information on existing available services (VCT, ARVs, etc.)
    The greatest challenges for families living in poverty are:
  • food
  • housing
  • school fees
  • sickness (medicines and health care costs)

What has Caring Hands done with their donations in 2006?
    Emergency relief
  • home visitations
  • food distribution
  • medical assistance (doctor’s fees, clinic visits, medical expenses, travel expenses)
  • dental care
  • funeral costs
  • distribution of used clothes
  • housing costs
  • seeds
    Income generating
  • sewing machine, materials, and tutoring for single, paralyzed mother
  • knitting machine, materials, and workshop for lady taking care of orphans
  • making beads for jewelry out of recycled paper
  • etc.
    School fees for children
  • children have been placed in the Fida Child Sponsorship program
  • school fees for children
  • the school fees include school uniform, P.E. clothing, shoes, knapsack, stationary, lunch and exam fees
    Raising the standard of living
  • raising the standard of living from the mud floor to the bed: metal bunk beds, mattresses, blankets, pillows, sheet, pillow cases, mosquito nets
  • arranging for more hygienic housing away from the slums
  • fund raising for building new furnished homes

The founder of Caring Hands , Milla Happonen is a Finnish Canadian missionary working with her family through Fida International in Uganda since 1995. “During childhood, my family experienced life-transforming charity that totally changed the direction of our lives. I would like to forward the same type of blessing to others.” Jesus said: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” (Mt 7.12).
P.O. Box 9408
Kampala, Uganda
 Telephone: +256 (0) 772 446357
E-mail: milla.happonen@utlonline.co.ug