Teso youth donate items worth shs1.5m to Amecet Children’s Home

Amecet Children’s Home was established in 2001.

By Robert Edwomu

Soroti City – 1, August 2022: Teso Link Welfare Association (TELWA) an umbrella that brings together over 200 youth across the region has donated an assortment of items to Amecet children’s home in Soroti city worth 1.5 million shillings.

The items are eggs, milk, cooking oil, sugar, pampers and others which the team believes will help the staff deliver effective services to the needy children.

George Okoit, chairperson of the Association says the donation is aimed at supporting the work that Amecet is offering to the vulnerable children and the community of Teso at large.

According to Okoit, the initiative is further geared at showing love and a positive attitude toward helping the community.

He says the support is also to show solidarity so that people can learn to share the meagre resources amidst the situation.

Angel Sharon Agweo, a nurse at Amecet who represented the institution after receiving the consignment stated that most of the children they received are malnourished and need dietary changes such as eating foods high in energy and nutrients.

Agweo commended the youth for the initiatives and challenged the public to emulate such an attitude besides relying on foreign support.

She says the institution from its inception in 2001, has so far cared for over 1,082 children and currently has 15 in care.

Amecet focuses on three (3) groups of children mainly children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS and are often sick themselves, newborn babies whose mothers died during or after childbirth and abandoned children brought by the police or child protection unit.