Smile Academy is part of the Smile Charity Village where small children are given a home and an education, and young people are trained in skills such as tailoring, hairdressing, mechanics and driving.   Following on from our 2024 Skills Training project we have funded a further 35 students.

We have set up a pilot project with 6 single mothers or grandmothers who have returned to Kajo-Keji from the refugee camps, and are struggling with livelihood to support their children or grandchildren in their schooling. Each of the women received 2 piglets, with a shelter and all the necessary feed and equipment. The

In November 2025, our long-term supporter and dear friend Denise, sadly passed away after a short illness and her family kindly invited donations in her memory to be given to Projects Delivering Hope in support of our projects.  In 2019, Denise joined us on a trip to Uganda, where we

In February Bishop James informed us that military confrontation in Julio Boma resulted in 15 families being left homeless after their houses had been burned down. They were sleeping under trees without access to shelter, food, clothing, cooking utensils and other essential supplies. PDH Trustees joined others to provide an

Kajo-Keji Christian College teaches theology, management & education courses in South Sudan. With around 230 students, financing the running costs, staff salaries, equipment and food are a constant challenge. With many returning refugees returning needing basic homes, the college has identified an income generating project and we have agreed to

We are excited to be partnering with the Smile Academy in Uganda once again in sponsoring young South Sudanese and Ugandan people to learn a trade. The course will provide them with the skills, training and tools they need to set up businesses in Catering, Construction, Driving, Mechanics, Tailoring and

The Mothers Union in the Diocese of Kajo Keji is setting up Poultry Projects in 5 parishes. Each project includes the construction of a 3m x 10m chicken house with surrounding enclosure together with feed & feeders, drinkers & vaccines. Chicks will be reared and sold for a profit and

During our March visit to PDH partner The Smile Village in Uganda this year, we met Joseph and his mum Suzan. Both had serious mobility problems; Joseph’s legs are paralysed and he only has the use of one arm. Suzan can only move around bent double on all four limbs. 

We are raising £1,200 to fund the cost of employing a nurse at the Smile Children’s Charity Village and Academy. They look after 400 children in the school and 40 young people in the training academy.

We’re sponsoring 40 more trainees at the Smile Academy in Uganda in Tailoring, Hairdressing and (for the first time) motor mechanics and driving.

This is Ivan. He is the deputy director of the Smile Children’s Charity Village in Uganda. When we visited in March he was cycling 15 miles each way to work through the bush on rough tracks. Thanks to some generous supporters, we have now supplied the Smile Village with a

Many of the South Sudanese people who fled to refugee camps in Uganda to escape the civil war in 2017 are now returning to their homes. Rations in the refugee camps have been reduced to an unstainable level and by returning home they will be supported by the Diocese of