Melek Charitable Foundation, here and after abbreviated as Malaika, is now an independent non-profit indigenous church-based charitable organization. The organization was started in 2005 to try and stop the tide of orphaning in particular, and the spread of HIV/AIDS in general, these two factors having been the most frequent situations faithfuls would turn up for counseling and prayer about. Soon the intended boundaries were found to be outstripped by demand, as the need for services was growing at a speed so terrific, in an area so wide than the resources, physical, financial and human, could handle. In light of this, and in expectation of the future, owing partly to unending spread of AIDS and partly to increasing abject poverty.

Malaika was upgraded to a non-governmental organization from a mere community based organization. So from 2009, Malaika is a fully fledged independent organization with headquarters at Kagoma, Buwenge in Jinja. Malaika now works in the; Provision of formal education for orphans and vulnerable children, Empowering widows financially and psychosocially, Sensitizing communities about HIV/AIDS, Providing mobile palliative care for people living with AIDS (PLWA), Fighting poverty through pursuing income generating activities, And finally, spreading the word of a caring God.