Response Care

Making child poverty history through Art & Design

About

We are driven by our passion to see the children and young people who are caught in poverty given opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Response care aims to use art and design as a vessel for transforming the lives of children and young people touched by extreme poverty in low-income countries.

Our purpose is to release children and young people from poverty by contributing to educational material to enable them further their education and to support, encourage and facilitate their artistic expression to help them thrive despite challenging circumstances.

Response Care is a collective of volunteer individuals from different walks of life coming together to contribute in different ways to making child poverty history.

Our Vision

Our vision is to equip communities of children and young people to flourish and see their lives transformed, released from poverty and integrated into society. With education and artistic skills, young people will be equipped to change their current circumstances, communities and break the cycle of poverty.

Our Mission

Our mission is to create a safe space for children and young people where they can freely express themselves and develop their artistic skills while encouraging and nurturing them to advance their education and create a positive future for themselves.

We also want to facilitate trauma-recovery and self-confidence of these children through Art & Design.

Our Projects

All our projects contribute to the eradication of child poverty, as we believe that young people have enormous potential and can grow beyond their individual circumstances.

To achieve this goal, we work closely with local partners that align with our vision and mission.

We equip our local partners with training and materials to support their communities with consistent education to vulnerable children. We also provide creative resources and space to facilitate both their recovery from trauma and creative development.

We recognise that there are many factors hindering the progress of the children we aspire to reach, for this reason, we aim to collaborate with other organisations to tackle barriers, such as nutrition and shelter.

Live project - The Rwamwanja Project

Response Care has partnered with the First Child Centre based in Rwamwanja Resettlement Refugee Camp, Kamwenge District in Southwest Uganda.

The camp hosts over 100,000 refugees from neighbouring countries. There are many children in the camp, and due to the wars that displaced them from their homes, many of the children are effectively orphans and vulnerable.

Community leaders within the camp formed the First Child Centre in early 2017 to safeguard the camp’s vulnerable children from starvation and exploitation.

First Child Centre gathers children in the camp daily, providing basic education and a safe space for them to gather and play and develop artistic skills of some of the children in the camp. Response Care is currently evaluating how best to facilitate their education within the camp by providing teaching and artistic resources.

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Join us

At Response Care, we have, to our joy, attracted passionate volunteers who give their time, skills, talent, energy and network to help realise our mission goals. Have some time that you’d like to donate as a volunteer? If you would like to be part of this exciting and most rewarding journey, and you share our passion to see child poverty eradicated, please get in touch. We have roles for both community fundraisers and researchers.

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