Children of Grace

Welcome to Children of Grace. We exist to provide love, hope, education and a future for orphaned children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Mary Ann McCoy
Founder and Executive Director

On my first trip to Africa in 2001, I met a lovely young Ugandan mother named Grace. Her husband had died of AIDS and consequently Grace was HIV positive. She struggled to provide for her three children and feared for their future after she died.

"Who will pay their school fees? Who will provide food, clothing and health care? Who is going to take care of them and who is going to love them?"

Today, in honor and memory of Grace, Children of Grace provides hope, love, education, and a future to hundreds of orphaned children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Find a child who needs a sponsor

A Child in Need: Hilda Nanyonga
Finding funds to keep her children in school has become an increasing challenge for Hilda's mother after her husband died of HIV/AIDS in 2003. Read more...

A Child in Need: Bruno Sserunkuuma
Bruno lost both parents to HIV/AIDS - his mother in 2003 and his father in 2005. He has been living with a grandfather who is a peasant with six orphans in his home. Providing for them is an impossible task for him. Read more...

College Scholarship Fund
Help a promising student go to college. Education means a job... and that is their future. Read more...

Provide A Better Education
Provide an enhanced educational opportunity... by contributing to the construction of the Children of Grace Library & Resource Center. Read more...

Mosquito Nets
Help protect our children from getting bitten by malaria carrying mosquitoes during the prime biting hours of 10 p.m. & 4 a.m. Read more...

Did you know?

550 orphans in Uganda
are attending school through Children of Grace sponsorships!
Every 14 seconds
a child becomes an orphan of AIDS.
82 percent
of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Uganda, do not attend school.
6 dollars
Can feed a child for a month.

A Telling of
Jinja, Africa

"The schools... There are many layers - first rutted roads and shacks speak to the poverty in Africa that you think about. But then the layers begin... Ernest the headmaster welcoming us to the school and proudly showing the new facilities that are being built (compliments of Children of Grace) and the individual latrines by grade (a hole in the ground, built compliments of a US donor.) There is the feeding program paid for in part by many of my friends that prevents kids from being swatted away from the food. There are the kids who sing to us in a presentation "our nature is happiness now that you're here." They also sing of crying at night because their parents and brothers/sisters are dying of AIDS."