Community Network For Orphans Uganda (CNFOUG) works with members of the community and other stakeholders like the police to identify orphans, abandoned and abused children in need of care and protection. Concerned villagers encourage unaccompanied street children to visit the CNFOUG center to access day services such as personal hygiene, hot meals, and free literacy lessons. Abused children and youth are rescued from dangerous living conditions, provided with mental health and medical health support and placed with trained safe foster families. Abandoned children are reunited with identified family members were possible or placed within a foster family.

Community Network For Orphans Uganda focuses on strengthening our foster families - both financially and economically. We provide business capital, tools, skills training, personal financial management, budgeting and marketing of their products and services. Our cooperative business programs expand access to diverse skills training by recruiting diverse business mentors. We offer in home business training services to those foster parents who cannot otherwise attend group training at our community center. Priority for economic and social assistance is provided based on the poverty status of the foster family. The program has social conditions that allow foster parents to use their professional skills to invest in the foster care program. children. For example, foster parents who are professional teachers offer free tutor services at the community library; unemployed foster parents offer daycare service to employed foster parents who in turn pay them a small fee for their service. This strategy is an “impact-first” financing model where adoptive parents continue to receive resources based on how engaged they are across program key objectives.

Community Network For Orphans Uganda runs a free community library open to all community members. The library is a free community resource to the public, serving children of all ages and adults. It offers free tutor sessions, reading books, reference materials and reading tablets. CNFOUG volunteers register children from the local neighborhoods. The library also offers free tutors for all in need, group games, arts/crafts, music, dance, and drama. During school breaks the library provides a safe space for children to have a hot meal and receive age appropriate literacy support to avoid loss of reading skills and knowledge. This is done to encourage children to develop a reading culture.