Immediate needs and long-term restoration For
Imprisoned Children of Uganda
Sixty Feet provides a Gospel-centered continuum of care for critically vulnerable children that includes minimizing contact with the law, providing for critical needs, and supporting long-term restoration.
Our Impact
Children Served
Professions of Faith
Medical Interventions
children reunited with family
Children sent Back to School
Children in vocational programs
Our History
In 2010, a group of Atlanta-area Christians traveled to Uganda to drill wells. To reach clean water, they would need to drill sixty feet deep. On the drive back to Kampala, a stop at Uganda’s National Youth Rehabilitation Center changed everything. They met children in desperate need of care, advocacy, and hope.
The mission changed, but the name Sixty Feet stayed. It is a reminder that we exist to provide what vulnerable children cannot reach on their own.
Give Where It’s Needed Most
Bridging the Gap
Vulnerable children in Uganda often end up in contact with the law. The reasons include everything from legal trouble, to being a victim of trafficking, being a child soldier and seeking refuge, living on the streets, being lost or abandoned, or being a victim of abuse or poverty.
In each facility, the government provides minimal necessities. Therefore, Sixty Feet bridges the gap between what the child needs, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and developmentally, and what they are given.
Our Programs
Child Development
Our Child Development programs support imprisoned children and formerly imprisoned children in school. Our programs range from sponsorship in special education skills, to vocational skills training apprenticeships.
Medical Care
Our medical team provides medical care for over 5,000 children each year. We provide both preventative and acute care for imprisoned children in Uganda.
Family Reunification
Reuniting children with their families is crucial to our work. When done well, children do not end up back in the facilities and break the cycles of poverty, crime, and trauma in their lives.
Biblical Counseling
Sixty Feet provides both individual and group counseling. Our counseling program runs in coordination with our discipleship program so that we are always connecting healing with the love, hope, and peace found in Christ.
Critical Needs
The facilities that house imprisoned children lack basic needs. Therefore, Sixty Feet provides for these basic, yet critical needs, such as soap, toilet paper, and food.
Legal Advocacy
Sixty Feet longs to break the cycles of injustice that are common in third world countries. Therefore, we work to meet the legal needs of children before they arrive at the facilities and once they are there.
