Save Street Children Uganda (SASCU)

Save Street Children Uganda (SASCU) is a national not for profit, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that is legally registered and operating in Uganda to promote and protect the rights of children in street situations and other vulnerable children and young people in Uganda. SASCU has over 15 years’ programming experience in promoting the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of street connected children, enhancing child protection, conducting research to inform programming, lobbying and influencing the development and implementation of child fridly laws and policies. SASCU has a national secretariat and currently has 35 multi-disciplinary staff. The organisation has an experienced board that provides strategic leadership and oversight. SASCU envisions a society where no child lives on the street and exists to promote the rights of children and young people in vulnerable situations to enable them live meaningfully by contributing to their socio-economic welfare. Established in 2005 as a CBO based in Kampala by former street children, SASCU has evolved over the years to become one of the leading NGOs working to protect and promote the rightt of vulnerable children in Uganda in a number of districts. SASCU’s operational mandate is derived from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and various national legal and policy instruments including the Children (Amendment) Act, 2016 and the National Child Policy (2020) . While undertaking its mandate, SASCU partners with various state and non-state child focused organizations as well as with different development partners operating at district, national, regional and international levels.