About Quicken Trust - Who We Are

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Quicken Trust was founded as a registered charity in 1996 with no intention of working in Uganda. It started as a support to help develop new UK based charities.

Following a visit to Uganda in 1999 and a further visit in 2000 its focus changed to assisting the community of Kabubbu ~ 'The Forgotten People' ~ in their search for a way out of poverty, destitution, death and despair to self-determination and hope for their future.

In 2004 it re-registered with the Charity Commissioners (Registered Charity No. 1102474) and as a Trust Company Limited by Guarantee (Registered Company No. 5047081). Our focus is to partner with the lives of those in need.

We seek to do this through professional research of the needs and then seek to encourage others to partner in meeting those needs. Not as 'one-off' handouts but through an on-going partnering process between individuals and organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the world with the orphans and their carers in the village of Kabubbu.

Landlocked Uganda sits across the equator. Its population is estimated to be over 30,000,000. It is a population racked with AIDS. Tens of thousands die from this disease each year. It is recognised as the worldwide epicentre of AIDS.

Over 5% of the children are living without a future. In Kabubbu alone there are hundreds of impoverished orphans. Is this a hopeless situation or can something be done?

Can you help make a difference?

Among the population there are over 1,500,000 children who have been orphaned because their parents have died of AIDS or HIV. Some have one parent remaining, although in most cases this parent is also ill with AIDS or the HIV virus with only a short amount of life left to live and a large family to bring up and support.

We have run several major projects in Kabubbu and are now concentrating on self-sustainability. Please feel free to take your time to browse through our site and see what we do in more detail.

If you feel that you can help in any way, or that you wish to make comments about this website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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