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Who we are The journey The incredible journey of Bless A Child Foundation began very unexpectedly. Brian, the Founder and CEO, is a clown. In 2007 he was invited to do a children’s party at the paediatric wing of the Uganda Cancer Institute in Mulago national referral hospital. He saw very sick children with large tumors in overcrowded wards, and sharing sleeping mats with their caregivers on the hospital verandas. It was a sight that moved him to tears. Children were contracting malaria and other diseases because of living in the open, and many were dying from the toxicity of the cancer medication because of poor nutrition. Most of the caregivers of the sick children ended up sleeping on the verandas of Mulago hospital as they waited for their next appointment because they could not afford to make the frequent back-and-forth trips from their villages. Brian named the subsequent parties “Smile Again” because this was the only time during the year that the children would not f

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