Born from pain, prayer, and purpose
Julian Boys Foundation was not born from an idea. It was born in prayer, out of the deep, unspoken pain that so many boys carry behind their strength and silence.
It became painfully personal when our founder's own brother nearly lost his life to depression and years of unacknowledged pain. That moment opened her eyes to a truth she could no longer ignore: countless boys and young men were carrying the same silent wounds, future fathers and leaders fighting battles no one had prepared them for.
For a long time she waited for someone more qualified to rise and answer the need. Eventually it became clear that she was the person she had been waiting for. In that place of surrender and conviction, Julian Boys Foundation was born.
Our vision
To empower boys to become exemplary men who strengthen families and transform nations.
Our mission
To mentor and empower boys with the skills, values, and support to become compassionate men, responsible fathers, and visionary leaders who strengthen families, communities, and the nation.
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The burden first took shape in 2017, at a youth camp where a pastor described a struggling family he had met: a father lost to drinking and gambling, a mother carrying the household alone, and children pulled out of school to help make ends meet. Everyone's compassion went to the mother and children, and rightly so. But our founder could not stop thinking about the father, once a boy himself, passing on pain he had never been helped to heal. Who, she wondered, would reach the boy before he became that man?
She questioned whether she was the right person to answer that. A young woman, not yet a parent. For a long time she spoke about the need and waited for someone more qualified to act. The more she waited, the more brokenness she saw, until it became clear that she was the person she had been waiting for.
Julian Boys Foundation began as quiet, personal work, often carried by the founder herself. In 2024 it stepped into full operations, with a structured program, a safe home for the boys, school placements, and a growing team of volunteer mentors who give their time freely.
Today a boy who comes to JBF is welcomed into that home, fed, enrolled in school, and paired with a mentor who walks with him. He grows in life skills, character, and faith, and discovers that his future can look different from his past. Each year we gather the community for events like Boy Child Day, alongside partners such as the Rotary Club of Kigali Virunga, Masaka Farms, and local businesses, to celebrate and invest in these boys. What began with one heart is becoming a generation of young men raised to be fathers, leaders, and men of integrity.