Fred is a new baby that has been at Sonrise for about a month now. His story is very sad to hear. His father was murdered (shot) while stealing and currently not much is known about his mother. We are so thankful that God has  brought him to Sonrise and we are praying fervently that fred will grow in the ways of the Lord and in His understanding. We just want the best for him - to grow in the fear of God and to not follow his father's foot steps. We believe God has a special plan for his little ...read more.

Sonrise has a new addition to the family in the way of a staff member and baby. Our dear Nanny Rebecca has left Sonrise to hopefully continue to pursue her high school education. God has provided another woman to help in her place. Julia is only 18 years old and has a baby named Stella. Baby Stella has suffered many illnesses but she is one year old and she has yet to walk. She is a bit delayed developmentally because of lack of medical care. When Julia found out she was pregnant, Baby Stella ...read more.

We also just received another child who is about 2 years and very, very malnurished. Her name is Fazira and she is from the same village that Sonrise is in and she is just so hungry. She fed the whole day that she was at Sonrise. She really loves the milk and the food ,which shows that she's been starving. Baby Fazira is very disabled and needs special attention. Damali has talked with her mom and agrees to help with Fazira's feeding for maybe 2 weeks or so, but this will be done by her mom com ...read more.

Patience is about 14 months old. Her mother, Salima, is 21 years old and she got pregnant with Patience while she was still in school. The father was apparently a really good guy, but when Salima was 4 months pregnant she went to where he worked and he wasn’t there. No one knew any information about his whereabouts. He had apparently left. After she hadn’t seen him for a week people started to say that he wasn’t coming back, he had abandoned her and that Salima should have an abortion. Sal ...read more.

Nulu is one of the oldest babies at Sonrise at around three and half. Nulu was born the youngest in a very large polygamous family. Her father who was HIV postive died shortly after her birth. Nulu’s mother died soon after this time along with several other of her father’s wives. All the children were left in the care of the father’s sister. Nulu grew up calling her aunt mommy. However as more of her brother’s children were left in her care, the financial strain became too much for Nulu ...read more.

Ian, our little man, is approximately two and half years old. He was born to very young parents. When his mother learned that she was pregnant, she claimed that the father was this one particular boy but the boy absolutely denied it. The girl was poor and could not keep baby Ian, so she took Ian to his paternal grandmother’s house because she knew that the woman’s son was Ian’s father. Since there was no one else to care for Ian, the grandmother took him in, even though she was still not s ...read more.

Brothers and sisters are a special gift from God and one that should never be taken for granted. Catherine and Junior are sister and brother from the same parents, and in a country like Uganda, this is all too often rare. Catherine is around 4 years old and Junior is around 2. They come from a village where their family is very, very poor. Their mother died sometime after Junior was born, so they were raised by their father. Catherine and Junior’s father and uncle (their father’s brother) we ...read more.

Trust is approximately 12 months old. Trust comes from a very abusive home. His father is a very large and tall man who abused both Trust’s mother and the Trust’s siblings. His mother works very hard in the gardens growing food to earn money for her family however his father sells the food and keeps the profits for himself. Trust’s mother use to take him with her to the gardens while she worked and leave him sitting by himself all day. Some days she would leave him at home in the care of t ...read more.

One year old Anisha came to Sonrise as a very scared little baby. Anisha’s mother was a teenager when she became pregnant and was living with her mother. Nothing is known about Anisha’s father, due to the fact that her mother didn’t want to disclose any information about him. Anisha’s maternal grandmother said that Anisha’s mom had to go back to school and that she was not going to be able to keep the baby. For a woman to find and maintain jobs in Uganda, it is almost mandatory that sh ...read more.

Ali is approximately nine months old. He was born to a fourteen-year-old mother and a fifteen-year-old father. Ali’s grandmother took in Ali so that his mother could continue with her schooling. His grandmother works all day digging in other people’s gardens to make money to care for her own children as well as other children that have been given to her to raise. When Ali was a newborn his grandmother would take him with her to work and leave him sitting in the fields while she dug. Her othe ...read more.

Steven Wasswa is the currently the youngest baby at Sonrise. When we first met Steven he was only four months old, but had already gone through so much in the little time he has been on earth. His mother died while giving birth to him and his twin brother. Steven was then taken care of by his little sister who is around eight years old, and other younger sisters. He fed on tea, and occasionally milk whenever his father could get some money to buy it. When he was a few days old, he was taken to t ...read more.