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DDEMBE HOME UGANDA is founded on the belief that all youth have a right to feel safe, loved, and respected. Working together, we can give these teens hope for a brighter future. The goal of DDEMBE HOME UGANDA is to help youth living on the streets by providing support services aimed at breaking the cycle of disadvantage, abuse, and addiction. In a family environment, these youth are given access to education, vocational training, safe accommodations, drug and alcohol recovery counseling, and health care. Youth who are trying to get off the streets are often scared and mistrustful; homeless youth never know where they will sleep, if they will be safe, or how they will get their next meal. They often feel powerless and fall into a self-defeating cycle that ends in failure. We need to protect them from the street, and its terrors, and help them to become the best that they can be. At DDEMBE HOME UGANDA, these valuable young people find the nurturing environment they need to bre

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