The Hawk Children's Fund was established in January 2008 as a platform to involve UMES students, faculty and the broader community in the creation, planning and development of a project designed to raise awareness of global issues involving children and to generate funds to assist "at-risk" children.

Our vision is to be the regionally recognized organization for developing proactive partnerships among student, community and other concerned organizations to help children in Africa.

In 2009 we donated $8,000 towards the construction of the new Kyamulinga Village School in rural Uganda, Africa (See project 2009 article). The Hawk Children's Fund also provided an additional $4000 for a three year "Literacy Project" to help teach all the Kyamulinga school children to read. (See the "Buy-A-Book" article)

In 2010 we donated $15,000 to the Uganda Community Library Association (UgCLA.org) to help fund the construction/renovation of two solar powered rural community libraries in Uganda (See project 2010 article)

We are currently accepting funds for our new "H.E.L.P. Kids" Project (See H.E.L.P. Kids article)