Sanyuka began in 2008, when Allan Kizito, our Executive Director, took notice of two homeless and orphaned children lingering at his home church in Kampala, Uganda. Allan responded to the grace God showed him as an abandoned and desperate child who lost his mother at age eight. Allan recruited church volunteers to join him in caring for these and other orphaned children abandoned on their church premises. In 2011, Sanyuka Child Care Ministries became licensed, regulated and entrusted by the Ugandan government to take legal custody of orphaned children in Uganda.