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SAFE Uganda was founded in 2006 to address the child abuses that seemed to escalate in spite of a number of organizations working in the field of child protection in Uganda and government initiatives like the enactment of the 1996 children’s statute to protect children. In particular, founder members were very touched and spurred into action in 2006 when the case of Nabukeera a young girl of 14 who was allegedly burnt by her step mother only came to light when her mother failed to get financial support from her father. OUR MISSION Sensitise children, their carers and the general public about child abuses and the laws enacted to protect children as well as working with other Organisations with similar objectives to further our aims and lobby the Government for transparent, user friendly child protection procedures and guidelines. OUR CORE VALUES Keeping children within their families SAFE agrees with the assertion that children are best cared for within their families but

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