60% of every tour supports a children's home in Kampala.

Every booking — Bwaise, the market walk, bicycle rides, homestays, heritage days and the nightlife tour — puts 60% of what you pay toward the day-to-day running of a local children's home. Not a donation box at checkout. Built into the price, every time.

Ask for our transparency report Why we don't offer visits

This isn't a tour stop

You won't find a children's home on any itinerary here. Supporting the home and visiting it are two different things — further down, we explain why we keep them separate.

60%of tour revenue, on every booking

1local children's home, the same partner every year

0visitor access — support doesn't require a visit

Annualpublic update on where funds went

What it funds

School fees, meals, medical care, and upkeep

The contribution goes toward the home's actual running costs — the unglamorous things that keep children fed, in school and healthy, rather than a one-off gift that photographs well.

EDUCATION

School fees & supplies

Term fees, uniforms, books and exam costs for children currently enrolled in local primary and secondary schools.

DAILY CARE

Meals & medical costs

Food, clinic visits, medication and the routine health care that a household budget would otherwise have to stretch to cover.

FACILITY

Staff & building upkeep

Fair pay for caregivers and teachers, plus repairs and maintenance so the home itself stays safe and functional.

An honest explanation

Why we don't offer orphanage visits

Child-protection organisations have spent years warning against exactly this kind of visit, and we take that seriously enough to turn down a product a lot of guests would probably book.

Visits disrupt attachment

Children who've already experienced separation or loss are harmed, not helped, by a rotating cast of short-term visitors — even well-meaning ones.

Visitor money creates bad incentives

Where visits or donations depend on having children to show, some institutions have been documented keeping children who have living family, simply because it sustains funding.

Support shouldn't require access

A home can be funded properly without a single tourist ever walking through it. That's the model we've chosen.

Accountability

How you can verify this

Which children's home do you support?

We work with one registered local partner rather than spreading contributions thin — full details, including their registration, are in our annual transparency update. Ask us and we'll send the current one.

Is the 60% calculated before or after costs?

It's 60% of our net tour revenue, after guide fees and direct community payments (the money that goes straight to vendors, host families and workshop owners on each tour) — not 60% of the sticker price.

Can I donate directly instead of booking a tour?

Yes. Contact us and we'll connect you straight to the home for a direct contribution, with no cut going to us at all.

Can I sponsor a specific child?

We intentionally don't offer this. Individual sponsorship tends to create the same visit-driven incentives we're trying to avoid — support goes to the home's general running costs instead, covering every child there equally.

Book knowing where it goes

Every tour funds real, ongoing care.

Ask us for the latest transparency update, or just book — 60% is already built into the price, no extra step required.

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