We put our faith into motion by providing orphaned children with a safe home and education, empowering widowed mothers with trade skills, and giving entire villages access to clean, life-saving water.
Orphans cared for
Women trained in skills
Boreholes built
Districts reached
Why We Exist
Across districts like Mbale, Budaka, Butaleja, Bugiri, Jinja, Iganga, Luuka and Mayuge, thousands of children have lost one or both parents and have no one to feed, teach or protect them. Widows and single mothers are left with no income and no path to one. Whole villages walk kilometres to fetch water that still makes their children sick.
Musana was founded to close that distance: between a child and a home, a widow and a wage, a village and a well. Not as a one time act of charity, but as a standing commitment we keep every day.
children locally affected by orphanhood or abandonment
average walk to clean water in underserved villages
of widowed mothers we meet have no stable income
A look at the programmes changing lives across Eastern Uganda, one child, one woman, one village at a time.
A food pack gets a family through the weeks between one harvest and the next, so no one goes hungry while they wait.
What We Do
Every child who walks through our gate loses the weight of raising themselves. We give orphaned and abandoned children a home, Quran memorisation and Islamic studies, formal schooling, meals, and the steady presence of adults who show up for them every single day.
A widow with a skill does not beg. We put sewing machines, tailoring training, and small business support into the hands of vulnerable women and mothers, so they can earn a dignified income and provide for their own children.
Clean water, food and shelter are not luxuries, they are the floor everything else stands on. We drill boreholes, run feeding programmes, and rebuild homes for families who have lost everything, across Eastern Uganda's hardest hit communities.
“Think of giving not as a duty, but as a privilege.”
Musana, The Humanitarian Organisation
