Where individuals, families and communities are empowered to influence decisions affecting their own lives, advocate for their own rights as human beings with equal voice and equal value under the premise that all life has intrinsic value before God who created life.
ACI (U) is a Non Profit NGO which was established with a commitment to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged children, empower the marginalised especially women, to stop the cycle of poverty and transform the lives of the peri-urban and rural poor in Uganda .
Abide was founded by Kelsey Nielsen and Megan Parker. Kelsey and Megan met while volunteering in an orphanage in Jinja, Uganda. While at the orphanage they were surprised to see parents visiting their children and asked why the children were in the orphanage. They were told the children's parents could not afford to feed or care for them.
They wanted to meet these parents in that moment and give them another choice. A choice to keep their babies and stay together as a family. Since 2013 Abide has kept over 1,000 children out of orphanages.
At story international, we are committed to embracing the complexity of the task at hand and fighting for the only thing that will ultimately end the orphan crisis: family.
