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Monthly episodes featuring father testimonies, expert conversations, and teaching from the B-E-A-M-A-N and Forge curricula.
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Every generation faces a crisis that defines whether it rises or falls. Ours is the crisis of the absent father. Across our communities, our schools, our churches, and our prisons, the evidence is undeniable: when fathers disappear, families collapse. When families collapse, communities crumble. When communities crumble, nations lose their way.
Fathers Arise was not born from theory. It was born from the wreckage — from the pain of children who grew up without a father's voice, from the silence of men who never learned how to stay, from the emptiness of homes that have everything except a present father.
We are not a program. We are a movement. We are the sound of men rising from the ashes of abandonment, silence, and shame — and saying, "It ends with me. The cycle breaks here."
Fatherlessness is not a private family matter. It is the single most destructive force in any society. A boy who grows up without a father is not just missing a parent — he is missing a mirror. He does not know what a man looks like up close. He has no model for how to lead, how to love, how to stay when things get hard. And the wound does not stay in the home. It walks into schools, into relationships, into workplaces, into prisons.
In August 2015, Isaac and Annabelle Mukisa established The Remnant Generation. Out of years of youth outreach — and a recurring question from supporters about boys, men, and fathers — Fathers Arise was born during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, when the crisis of fatherlessness became impossible to ignore.
"Fathers Arise exists to restore men to their God-given role as present, responsible, and spiritually grounded fathers who lead their families and communities with integrity."
Fathers Arise operates under The Remnant Generation, a faith-based organisation committed to raising leaders and restoring families across Uganda and beyond.