Mission for All (MIFA) was founded in 1982 in Kampala, originally intending to work with orphans, helping them into education. Since that time, they have expanded considerably and now offer a range of development programmes to thousands of children and families in Uganda. One such programme is their work with children living on the streets in the capital, Kampala. Children living on the streets have run away from home for a variety of reasons – domestic violence, harassment and torture, extreme poverty and civil war up in the north, to name a few. It is estimated that there are thousands of children living this way in Uganda’s capital. In January 2001, MIFA started working with these children, keeping in touch with children and identifying those in greatest need. After six months, they set up a home for ten boys, aged 6-13, who were living on the streets. The home was incredibly basic, but a live-in house ‘parent’ and a social worker began developing a model of rehabilitation so that children could eventually re-enter society and return to school, their communities, and their families.