Sanyuka Children’s Choir shares music and mission with Medina Sunrise Rotary

“‘Sanyuka’ is a Ganda word meaning ‘rejoice’!” exclaimed Allan Kizito, executive director of Sanyuka Children’s Ministries in Uganda. “My journey—from being orphaned at 8 years old in Uganda, taken in by Christian missionaries through high school, graduating from Makerere University, founding Real Technologies Group, getting married and having our first child, winning a U.S. Department of State Green Card lottery, and being offered a job in Medina, Ohio—was guided not by luck or my own energy, but by the loving hand of God.”

Kizito, now a software engineer with Ohio-based OEConnection, founded Sanyuka Children’s Ministries in Uganda in 2008. He continues his overseas mission as a minister and pastor, offering Christ-centered child development programs created in response to the growing number of street, orphaned, and vulnerable children in Uganda.

Sanyuka, which means “family,” currently provides education, health care, food, clothing, mentoring, and spiritual discipleship in a nurturing home setting to 55 children who were once orphans, with many more on the waiting list.

“We are grateful to Medina Sunrise Rotary for their generous donation and for our blessed partnership with Pride One Construction of Medina,” Kizito said. “Please join us in building a sustainable future for these children. Our 2025 Sanyuka Vision is to promote our children’s ministries tour, purchase land for a school and development center to teach job and trade skills, and build homes, a training farm, and a small business incubator. We are also excited to bring the Sanyuka Children’s Ministries Choir to Ohio in 2025 to share our stories, mission, and love of God.”

Kizito and the lively Sanyuka choir concluded their musical and dance performance with heartfelt thanks to the Medina Sunrise Rotarians, whose mission is to make a difference in the lives of children in the community and beyond “through our time, talents, and treasures.”

“Together, we can become the instrument in changing a life, a generation, a country, and Africa,” Kizito said.

For more information about Sanyuka Children’s Ministries, supporting the 2025 Children’s Choir Ohio Tour, or sponsoring a child, contact Allan Kizito at 312-515-7370 or visit www.sanyukachildren.org.