Our mission

We’re creating a hope and a future for children living with HIV.

Cherish Uganda is a faith-based nonprofit organization that focuses on creating hope and a future for children with HIV/AIDS.

Since 2006, ordinary people just like you have paved the way for extraordinary life change in the communities we serve in Uganda.

Among the vast numbers of orphaned and vulnerable children, children living with HIV are often pushed to the margins of society. With very little care offered to this group of children, we felt God calling us to connect people from all over the world to be a part of the redeeming story He wants to author in their lives. Will you help us change the story of HIV into a story of hope?

Brent & Leah Phillips

We Focus on HIV

While we work with families and kids who are HIV negative, we place a priority on serving those who are living HIV positive. We are strategically located, serving a community with high rates of HIV.

Learn more about HIV

Small Org, Big Impact

We are not a massive organization, so every donation, big or small, helps. Learn more about our impact or contact our CEO directly. We try to efficiently and wisely use every donation to change lives.

Make a donation today

Partnership Mindset

We believe in partnership over handouts. A Kingdom Culture vs. fixing local problems with outsider solutions. Family-based care vs. institutionalization of children. We’re 100% Ugandan run on-site.

Discipleship

We love Jesus and teaching his love. Beyond sharing the Good News, we dive deep and heavily invest in discipling those we serve and the staff we employ.

Read our Statement of Faith

Holistic Care

We have a holistic approach by serving children with quality medical care, education, spiritual care, and equipping families to best care for their children.

Learn more about our diverse programs here

Our 4 Core Values

Connect with Christ

Discipleship is at the core of everything we do. We deeply desire to help our children and staff connect with Christ in a meaningful way that celebrates who He is & who we are in Him.

Care for Children

Caring for children with HIV is what we do. And when it comes to caring, we want it to go well beyond good nutrition, quality healthcare, excellent education and a safe place to call home. We want our children to be cared for in a deep way that addresses their individual needs in a holistic way.

Change the Story

We want to help change the story that has been written in many of the lives of our children and staff members. We want to help rid the stigma of HIV and help create a redemption story for these kids, a story where the light of hope outshines any darkness that has covered their past.

Continue the Calling

There is more to life than today, so we want everything we do at Cherish Uganda to be sustainable and to have an eternal perspective. From relationships to investments, we want these commitments to be made with longevity and the bigger picture in mind.

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We are 100% Ugandan Run on-site

As of 2016, we became 100% Ugandan-run on-site at Cherish Uganda. We have built an incredibly, hardworking staff of 50+ Ugandans to carry out the good work God is doing at Cherish Uganda.