About Us
what we do
Love in Action is a Christian organisation
Love in Action is a Christian organisation that seeks to demonstrate God’s love in practical ways, by providing support, education and care for orphans and needy families in Uganda, especially those families affected by HIV/AIDS.
We achieve this by identifying and supporting existing community-based initiatives with funding, advice and resources. We also create new projects to respond to unmet community needs.
Our Story
Founded in April 2004 by Alan and Beryl Went
Love in Action was founded in April 2004 by Alan and Beryl Went, from Colchester, UK. They have a home in Masaka, Uganda.
When Alan & Beryl arrived in Masaka in 2003 they first opened an internet cafe, to provide a safe, pornography free environment for people to use. It was at the cafe we met 2 men who had a desire to help the children in their village, Kyetume. As a result of a silver wedding anniversary appeal we were able to build a primary and later a secondary school for them and we started sponsoring children at the schools. Thus Love in Action had it’s beginnings.
We also saw the need to help girls who have dropped out of school through lack of school fees, so the idea of Hosanna House was born as away to help them avoid sugar – daddies.
Later we were asked to develop a primary school in Kasaka, a small village in Bukakata sub-county near Masaka, This has become the main focus of our work. The primary school has been added to with many more classrooms, a secondary school, clinic and farm. See the individual project pages for more information.
In 2015 the internet cafe was closed as mobile internet became widely available and demand dropped.
What we do?
- Love in Action works in a number of different fields as shown throughout this web site.
- We have built and run a Primary School and a Secondary School in Kasaka a village close to Lake Victoria.
- We have 2 homes for teenagers, (Hosanna Youth Project), where young people can live in a safe environment whilst attending school / adult education.
- We have a sponsorship scheme for children and young people
- We run a farm surrounding the school to help feed the pupils
- We operate a Health Clinic in Kasaka for the school and surrounding population.
- Love in Action employs over 60 Ugandan staff
Official Status
In February 2008, Love in Action (International) was formed as a UK Registered Charity (Reg No. 1122493).
How we help
Our continued efforts include:
Education
Health
Farming
Care
Nutrition
Church
Our Humanitarian Projects
What we are doing in Uganda
Christ’s Embassy Primary School, Kasaka
Primary & Nursery School
Our Nursery & Primary School provides education for children from 4 to 14 to a high standard. In Uganda after 2 or 3 years of nursery school children complete 7 years of primary education at the end of which they take a national exam (Primary Leaving Exam – PLE). In 2021 all our pupils passed this exam. There is more information on this school here
CLIA Christian Secondary School, Kasaka
Love in Action Christian Secondary School
Our Secondary School set in a village called Kasaka, near Lake Victoria provides 4 years of education leading to O Level National exams. We currently have around 100 pupils. In 2021 all our pupils passed their exams and we were place in the top 30% of all secondary schools in Uganda.
Children being educated now
national exams sat
Teacher on site
Schools with children supported
Help us build new secondary school classrooms
Our secondary school currently has 4 classrooms and 180 pupils, as we grow we need to add 4 more classrooms as we planned. These rooms will provide a computer suite, art room and space for additional subject teachers.
Each room will cost about £20,000 to build and equip (£30,000 for the computer suite), please help us with this exciting project.