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Musana Community Development Organization was created when our team of founders of Ugandan and American University students discovered 162 children living at an orphanage in the worst conditions imaginable. These children, ages 4-14, were sleeping in three tiny rooms without beds or blankets on a rocky dirt floor. Rats climbed over them as they slept and their bedrooms turned to mud when it rained. Their bodies were covered in rashes and many suffered from bacterial infections from the unsanitary latrines. Day to day, these children were hungry, bored, uneducated, unloved, and completely hopeless. In September 2008, Musana Children’s Home was established and moved 80 of the 162 children into a place they could finally call home. They began to receive three meals a day, proper medical care, a good education, and most importantly… love.

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