ABOUT US
Our Mission
NACHU as an OVC is committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment for vulnerable children, empowering them to reach their full potential through education, healthcare, and holistic care, while promoting community engagement and sustainable strategies to reach out many children as well.
Our Vision
To be a beacon of hope for orphaned and vulnerable children, fostering a culture of love, compassion, and excellence, where every child can grow, thrive, regain the lost hope and become a confident, self-sufficient, and a contributing member of society.
Our Core Values
At NACHU, we are dedicated to ensuring that children in our community has access to their basic needs. We believe that meeting these fundamental requirements is not just essential but is the cornerstone of a child’s beautiful journey through life. Our core values are deeply rooted in this belief.
- Education
- Shelter
- Food & Clean Water
- Clothing
- Medical Care
Not only do they care for children in their home, but on a regular basis they visit various families in surrounding communities, seeking ways that they can be a support. Many children in Soroti live completely alone, with no parents to care for them. NACHU is a place of refuge for these children.
James and Norah
Hope is rising ..
The story of NACHU
In 2008, a young girl was taking care of her bed-ridden, widowed mother at a local hospice in Soroti, Uganda. Where a dying widow is, there a child inevitably waits to become an orphan. When the child's mother died, there was no relative from her village to take care of her and her brothers. She turned to the hospice’s Manager - Pastor James Eparu and his Wife Norah. It was a big decision for this young couple to take care of these children, but once they decided, they felt it was the start of something very special.
Both James and Norah in their own childhood, grew up as vulnerable children with extremely difficult childhoods. However, both speak of God’s grace in their lives, and of forgiveness for their families. Instead of bitterness, they have chosen to embrace the call of God on their life. They give everything to better the lives of vulnerable and orphan children by giving them love and a family.
Their home quickly filled up with so many children, James and Norah decided to found their official Non-Government Organization as Nurture a Child Uganda in April of 2009.
As National Directors, James and Norah live with 75+ children. All have been taken into their home.
They nurture the children through meals, counseling, prayer, programs, church involvement, and pay for basic needs, education and health care.
James Prince EPARU
DIRECTOR
Norah EPARU
DIRECTOR
Most of the children live at NACHU's home
2008 - TO DATE
Our Most Efficient task
Community Integration: Encouraging social interactions and community involvement to help children build a support network at and outside home. We realise the children are traumatized less, when they engage each other socially.