GI Trust

GI Trust supports Get Involved with African Street Children (GI ASCO) . GI ASCO started in January 2010 as a drop in day centre for street homeless children in Jinja, eastern Uganda – watch the ASCO Journey video above to see the conditions the boys were living in. In April 2010, the project was able to rent a house and become a residential home. A couple of months later, the boys started at local schools, most starting in P1 at a local primary school, with two of the boys attending Lords Mead Vocational College. There are now 25 boys aged between 8 and 18 being supported by GI ASCO, with 23 living at the GI ASCO house and 2 living independently close by. We have witnessed a truly extraordinary transformation in the boys, from malnourished, unsettled, sometimes aggressive, "survivors" to happy, confident members of the GI ASCO family. The progress they have made at school is amazing, with 2 boys finishing top of their class in Primary 3 and one finishing 6th in Primary 4! Originally structured as a local CBO, the project is now registered as a Ugandan International NGO called Get Involved with African Street Children (GI ASCO) (reg. no. 9015). The project director is Sarah Kelly, a qualified social worker from the UK, and it employs 2 matrons, a patron, a relief patron and a security guard. Local board members include Moses Wambi, a social worker, Rachel Sserwanga, Head of Economics at Kira High School and Rose-Ann Mutimba, a financial administrator. GI ASCO's address is Plot 1, Nalufenya Close, Jinja, Uganda