Assisting Ugandan Children

The Stephen Shames Foundation locates forgotten children with innate talents and molds them into leaders.

We do this by raising funds for and partnering with Concern for the Future, an indigenous Ugandan-run leadership program

Concern for the Future (CFTF) finds bright, motivated AIDS orphans, child soldiers, children in refugee camps, and other vulnerable youth in Uganda who want to go to college but can't because of poverty, AIDS, and war. CFTF gives them the world-class 21st-century skills necessary to lead their countries into the future.

Concern for the Future's student-members attend the top primary and secondary schools in Uganda, then go on to university. Concern for the Future   provides them with everything they need to succeed such as books, school supplies, medical care, food, clothes, and emotional support.

Concern for the Future's staff, aided by community partners, imbue the children with a strong work ethic, a devotion to democratic values,   and a desire to serve.

Our leadership program for neglected youth is unequaled anywhere in the world. CFTF has transformed the lives of 75 youngsters, turning outsiders into leaders.

Concern for the Future's program represents a compelling prototype for the kind of global educational venture that is badly needed. The education and cultivation of young leaders is a crucial, but often overlooked, component of our efforts to alleviate poverty and create a safer planet.

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Transform a Child's Life
Concern for the Future provides TOTAL CARE for its' scholars. CFTF pays their school fees and prepares them for university by providing them with everything they need to succeed including books, school supplies, medical care, food, clothes, and emotional support. These 75 exceptional children and adolescents receive leadership training while they acquire marketable 21st-century skills such as web design and video production.

TOTAL CARE is a bargain.

• $3 a day provides a primary school student with an exceptional education.

• $5 a day is all it takes to transform a high school student's life.

Concern for the Future runs all aspects of the program in Uganda. The CFTF board and staff, all native Ugandans, select and nurture of our young scholars.

Its' Working
•  Half of our high-school students attend the county's best eleven high schools.

•  46% of our younger students attend Budo Junior, the top primary school.

• 33% of CFTF's students ranked as the top ten students of their classes third term in 2007.

•  New Vision, Uganda's largest newspaper, named two CFTF students as top students. Only 11 students in the entire country were selected.

Please help a child achieve his or her dreams.

The Stephen Shames Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Donations are tax deductible.