We go to schools, homes, and prisons with counsel, prayer, and a listening seat.
Some wounds are not treated with a food hamper. We sit with the discouraged — in schools, in communities, and, with government authority, inside Ugandan prisons. We preach when we are invited to preach. We counsel teenage mothers who are told to hide. We stay long enough for a person to believe they are not finished.
From the field
Every photograph and film here can be recaptioned, re-ordered, or moved to another ministry from the staff desk.
Guidance & counselling
Director Nalubega Fausta holds a neighbour in a banana garden behind the house. Two boys wait on white chairs. Guidance is not always words. Sometimes it is a back, held, until the person can stand again.
Guidance & counselling
A counsellor in the red polo sits with a boy and an elder on a timber veranda — jerrycan, floral curtain, packed-earth yard. Guidance is not an office hour. It is a stool in someone else’s house.
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The same visit, closer in. A child in a mustard shirt, an elder in a white vest, the timber wall behind them. Counselling often looks like simply being in the photograph.
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The counsellor takes the elder’s hand. No pamphlet. No crowd. A visit that tells a man he has not been forgotten by the house in Makindye.
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On a Kampala pavement an elder in a knit cap stops to wave. The clip is short on purpose: dignity does not need a speech. A greeting is sometimes the whole visit.
Guidance & counselling
Staff and a visiting friend sit with a grandmother and the children in a single room. Guidance is not an office hour. It is a stool in someone else’s house.
Guidance & counselling
A family gathers on the earth floor of a mud house — a sewing machine in the corner, children kneeling, a household held. Some wounds are not treated with a food hamper.
Guidance & counselling
Director Nalubega Fausta sits with an elder against a brick wall and takes her hands. No pamphlet. No crowd. A visit that tells a woman she has not been forgotten.
Guidance & counselling
The same elder, later, with children at her shoulder. Counselling often looks like simply being in the photograph.
Guidance & counselling
Three women hold each other in a compound. Guidance is not always words. Sometimes it is a back, held, until the person can laugh again.
Guidance & counselling
Director Nalubega Fausta kneels with two children in a yard of coffee trees and washing lines. The visit is the ministry. The photograph is only the proof that someone came.
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Staff sit with a mother and her children beside a basin of tomatoes. Poverty has an address. We go there.
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Staff and visiting friends gather around a neighbour in a Makindye lane. Guidance is not always words. Sometimes it is a circle that will not let a person stand alone.
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A small child in a red shirt, a mud wall, a hand nearby. Poverty has a face this close. The visit is the ministry. The photograph is only the proof that someone came.
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Staff in the Africa-map shirt sit with a grandmother, a mother, and the children on the step of a small house. Guidance is not an office hour. It is a stool in someone else’s house.
