When a chicken becomes a goat, or a pig, or even a brand new purpose built chicken home!

We are overwhelmed by the response you all have made to the Chicken Challenge. Today we’re celebrating reaching our initial target of 700 chickens! But the challenge isn’t over, your chickens can become something more to empower our Ugandan friends with income generating projects.

In chicken currency, 4 chickens can buy a pig or a goat and 14 chickens will buy materials for each family to build their own hen house.

So please keep your chickens coming! Until April 30^th, the challenge goes on…

Sir John Lawes secondary school opened their doors to something new this week. The word of the week was “effort” and OKM staff were invited to present opportunities to get involved. Students were eager to respond to the Chicken Challenge, offering creative ideas to support families caring for orphans in Uganda. Many students were interested in volunteering as they learned that a little effort can make a huge difference. Thank you to staff and students at the school. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with you! (more…)

Thanks to all the Mums and kids at Crabtree Infant School who weighed and mixed and stirred and baked and sold all for Orphans Know More. Cakes were sold in a fast 25 minutes and ₤84 was raised. Well done Mrs Green & Co! If you would like to see some photos from the sale, check out our photo gallery.

A Hertfordshire family today decided to make the Chicken Challenge a family affair and purchase a chicken for each member of their family, and one for luck! Thank you for helping our Ugandan friends this Easter. To see how you can get involved, check out the Chicken Challenge here.

In early November 2005, three individuals left from London and Harpenden on behalf of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and Orphans Know More. Their challenge was to film and capture the essence of a crisis and a story of hope in the midst of it. The destination was Jinja, Uganda and the crisis; what to do with a population swamped by children labelled with the title and stigmatisation of being an HIV Orphan. Uganda has in excess of 2 million orphaned children and is now facing the dilemma of how to raise them in a supportive and caring environment. (more…)

Can you help our friends buy 700 hens this Easter?Orphans Know More is assisting 30 Ugandan families who have adopted 150 HIV/AIDS orphans. Seven of those families want to start small income generating poultry businesses to help feed and support their children.

In the UK you can buy a chocolate Easter egg for £2.50. In Uganda a family can buy a laying hen for £2.50.

To donate click here or send a cheque to:

“Orphans Know More“, Highfield Oval, Harpenden, AL5 4BX

Thank You and have a very Happy Easter!

Once our goal for hens is met, further donations will assist more families with other income generating projects. 100% of your donation goes to Africa.