About Us.
Our History
In 1996, at the age of 11 years, Naphtali Kalibbala, our founder, joined the Africa Foundation, which was started by Rev. Dr. Kafe Sampagi, the first person who gave love and care to the street children in Uganda. While there, Naphtali was given hope in life again; however, his life there was not easy at all, due to the large number of children, leading to the foundation failing to provide food to them daily, since the number of children there was over 600.
Due to this, in 2001, the Africa Foundation was closed, and among the few blessed children was Naphtali. And because of his good performance, he was given a favor and joined the Chain Foundation, which was started by the late Archbishop Living Mpalayi Nkoyoyo of the Anglican Church of Uganda. Here, Naphtali felt like it was heaven on earth because he used to get meals like any other child from a good family, and he attended a good school called Bishop Senior School, Mukono, among the best in the municipality. This made Naphtali love God more than before; thus, in 2003, Naphtali accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and redeemer in his life. In 2012, after he graduated, Naphtali shared his desire to touch many lives of street and hopeless children, and through one of his longtime friends, a father and a mentor in his life, who used to come to the African Foundation and Chain Foundation by the name of Rev. Dr. Raymond G. Wilson, this prompted him to establish Kalibville Cooperative Community.
KALIBVILLE COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY
Naphtali and Kalibville Cooperative Community continued interacting with children in the community. He found a way to create a more understanding relationship with the children; for instance, one day Naphtali met a girl named Daphine Nakigunde who had a young sister called Desire. These girls were putting on torn clothes and searching for jackfruit as a solution for their hunger, which got him concerned; therefore, he began to visit them every week. Very soon, he had a group of needy children in the village and was bringing them together for weekly meals and fellowship.
Connecting with these needy children created in them a sense of purpose and hope in the community, and whenever they missed coming to Kalibville, they could ask Naphtali what had happened since, due to the limited resources he had and the increasing number of children, he couldn't provide to them regularly. With his continued effort, they began to believe in themselves and to care for each other.
The center has now grown to having 250 children in total benefiting from the Kalibville Cooperative Community.
Kalibville Cooperative Community started operating in Kinkandwa, Wakiso district, where our head office is located, and now we are also operating in the districts of Mukono, Buikwe, Mpigi, Kampala, Luwero, and Mityana.
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