The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation empowers impoverished communities in Uganda with educational opportunities, vocational training, microloans and donations of food and crucial supplies.
501 (c) (3) # 87-2836825
NGO# 6311NB
Our mission is to give youth access to quality and higher education.
With our “sponsor a student” program, our youth have become the first of their families to graduate from college!
Our vocational training centers & microloans empower young women to be economically independent and stable.
Programs and Impact
Our Impact Report
Melissa with 21 year old Agatha
2022 vocational student graduate in tailoring
Melissa with 12 year old Abdul
Sponsored student
Our Vision
The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and NGO nonprofit organization founded in 2021 to transform living conditions in Kampala, Uganda’s poorest slums.
We empower youth and young women through education, vocational training and economic independence programs.
We protect orphans and vulnerable children from being exploited and protect them from child labor.
Join our annual “Service and Safari for the Soul” trip this summer for a chance offer community service and receive a first hand cross-cultural experience.
501 (c)(3)# 87-2836825
NGO# 6311NB
Tanzania Zanzibar and Uganda
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Service and Safari for the Soul
Travel with a Purpose Annual Serive Trip
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Donate to sponsor a student to fund private boarding school education, all meals and swimming lessons. Funds include cultural activities such as art, dance and music. Education sponsorship ranges from primary school through University.
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In 2024, we launched our newest program Sponsor a Village. This program combines all of our other programs: Hygiene Kits, Garden of Eatin’ and Women Empowerment Microloans, in addition to clean water, latrines and improved school buildings. The Sponsor a Village Program afford us the opportunity to make tremendous impact on a large scale costing an average of 50 cents per person and benefiting thousands of people.
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Our Hygiene Kits Program provides girls and women with in depth education and free reusable hygiene kits which are produced locally in our sewing centers.
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Currently in 4 schools and expanding to 6 soon, the Garden of Eatin’ takes curriculum from North Bay Children’s Center. Children learn to plant, grow, harvest and prepare fruits and vegetables.
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Our training centers teach vocational skills such as sewing, animal husbandry, landscape design and sustainable agriculture. These skills enable long term financial stability.
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We support female empowerment through microloans to young women for businesses including brick-laying, chicken and duck rearing, a retail shop, a beauty shop, a mushroom farm, and a cosmetics shop.
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The Respect & Responsibility Program launched in 2026 for boys 12+ to teach kindness and confidence & provide t-shirts and hygiene kits. The women we serve in Uganda are often single mothers so providing positive male guidance for boys was a critical need and we are excited to fill this void with positive role models.
Our Programs
Our Objectives
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Our Impact
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News
Since our inception in 2022, The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation has made an incredible impact on children, young women and other underprivileged group’s lives thereby uplifting impoverished communities in Uganda.
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Success Stories
Our students have graduated university and our vocational training centers are expanding. Our microloan program continues supporting women empowering them to launch their own businesses to thrive economically and sustainably.
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6 University graduates
12 enrolled in University 2026
4 enrolled in University in 2024
6 enrolled in University in 2023
〰️ 6 University graduates 12 enrolled in University 2026 4 enrolled in University in 2024 6 enrolled in University in 2023
52,841 hygiene kits donated
with female health education to young girls in many parts of Uganda.
These are distributed to the schools with the largest need that would be otherwise forgotten.
We produce about 700 hygiene kits a month in our sewing centers.
Hygiene Kits
Our Student Success
6 University Graduates
12 enrolled in University
188 enrolled in primary
& secondary level schools
Students Sponsored
Our Partners
