Masanafu Child And Family support (MCAFS) is an Organization established and registered as a Community Based Organization in 2003.  With the urge to find remedy to ever increasing problem of poverty and human degradation, with a special focus on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) infected and affected by the HIV/AIDS scourge.  MCAFS is located at Masanafu along Ssentema road, six Kilometers from Kampala City in Kampala. MCAFS established and supports OVC through vocational skills training at St. Padre Pio Vocational Training Institute. It supports retention in school of children extremely in need through an educational support program, by paying school fees and providing scholastic materials to these children in various schools both secondary and primary.  To the surrounding community MCAFS carries out socioeconomic strengthening of OVC caregivers, sensitization on child protection, health care and psychosocial support to OVC and increasing the rural community’s awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention.

 MCAFS has singled out skills training and support as the appropriate strategy in improving the lives of the less advantaged ones, more especially the HIV/AIDS affected orphans and vulnerable children.

Currently MCAFS supports more than 200 OVC in formal education, 120 OVC households in socioeconomic strengthening and sustainable agriculture, 86 formally out of school youth in vocational skills training and post vocational support for over 90 OVC who graduated over the previous years, and entrepreneurship and income generation support to over 120 teenage mothers.