Our Individual
Donors Goal:
$100,000 Total
Our Corporate
Donors Goal:
$100,000 Total
Help us make a difference. Help us change the world.
OMACAN – ONE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
OMACAN was founded on the belief that ONE can make a difference in the world.
One person, one woman, one man, one child, one youth, one teacher, one engineer, one doctor, one mother, one grandparent…
A group of eight ordinary people, difference makers in their own communities, were guided by their Christian faith to come together to make a difference in Africa.
This chance encounter early in 2013 resulted in the formation of OMACAN as a group of good Samaritans: seven Canadians and one American who were crazy enough to believe they could change the world, even if for just ONE.
Our eldest co-founder is now 97 and our youngest now 61.
On August 10, 2017, OMACAN became a Canadian Non-Profit Corporation, and in June, 2018, OMACAN was awarded Registered Canadian Charity status after a very rigorous process by Canada Revenue Agency.
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The Number of Meals that the Price of a 20 Ounce Cup of Coffee Can Provide for a Child in Need
2000
Villagers Helped This Year with OMACAN's Pieces of Our Heart Food Basins
76,425
Number of Nourishing Meals Provided and Delivered by Omacan in 2022
MAKING A DIFFERENCE –
HOW YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
PROVIDE ONGOING FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Since 2017, OMACAN has been helping street children and the extreme poor of Uganda’s Masaka District. Ongoing donations, either monthly or annually, provide the funding needed for OMACAN House, our school programs, skill training programs, food, supplies, and the tools we use to make a difference, build connections, and create better lives for Ugandan street children.
HELP US FEED THE PEOPLE OF NYENDO
Make a difference in the lives of street children and the extreme poor in the Nyendo slums by purchasing food items that become nourishing meals. Items like chickens, nambale beans, onions, and matooke are delivered right to OMACAN House and our partner organizations in Masaka District to provide the fiber, vitamins, proteins, and other essential nutrients to those who need it most.
SPONSOR A CHILD'S EDUCATION
Education is one of the best ways that donors can help secure the future for underprivileged children. Sponsor a street child at multiple levels of schooling, from primary school to university and trade-skill apprenticeships. Through boarding school programs, the OMACAN House classroom, and long-established partnership organizations, street kids can become school kids with the care, support, and supplies needed to educate bright, young minds.
INVEST IN A CHILD'S FUTURE
Generous donors can open the door to an opportunity for street children to become successful in their own local business. OMACAN’s educational micro-business incubator pilot projects teach older children the financial literacy, banking, sales, marketing, and other business/production skills necessary to create their own businesses and change their lives.
VOLUNTEER AT OMACAN HOUSE
Become part of the OMACAN family right here in Uganda. During a five-day stay, you can work side-by-side with street kids at OMACAN House as part of our volunteer program. See the world, change the world, and make a difference in Masaka, Uganda, with OMACAN!
PURCHASE OMACAN MERCHANDISE
Spread the love, joy, and hope of OMACAN and our work through purchasing any of our promotional merchandise! The net proceeds go directly to support our projects and programs, transforming the lives of Ugandan children. With shirts, coffee cups, mouse pads, and more, there are plenty of ways to show that you’re one of many making a difference!
MENTOR A CHILD
Go beyond sponsoring a child – work directly with a Ugandan street kid as a mentor in business, art, culture, language, technology, and more. With plenty of projects and eager children ready to learn, you can help mentor a child in person or virtually through OMACAN.
THE OMACAN HOUSE
In 2018, OMACAN moved its operations to a new privately-secured property. This is OMACAN House, our leased property that houses former street children under OMACAN’s care with official care orders from the Ugandan courts. The residents are all pursuing advancement of their education in either primary or secondary school, apprenticeship programs, or with OMACAN’s education based micro-business incubator.
OMACAN House also contains our offices, rooms for visiting volunteers, our micro-business incubator education lab for our sustainability, and a multi-purpose classroom for older street children’s skills education. OMACAN house is also home to our carpentry workshop where we offer woodworking apprenticeships for street children to learn this trade with our master carpenter.
SCHOOL OF HOPE PROGRAM
The Donna Watkinson School of Hope was named in memory and honour of one of our OMACAN co-founders whom God called home in April, 2016.
In 2017, our primary school opened in February and accepted 76 orphans of the extremely poor village of Kalagala and 25 Street children from the Nyendo Slum in Masaka, Uganda. The Nyendo slum is the second largest slum in Uganda and its most dangerous. 110 Children completed their school year in December 2017, our inaugural year.
OMACAN’S CORPORATE DONORS
These Foundations and Corporate Donors Provide OMACAN with Grants, Funds, Volunteers, and Services
DONOR IMPACT: CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER
Heartfelt Testimonials from Our Generous Supporters
