Soon we hope to open an orphanage to offer our children better living conditions and a safe environment to grow up in. We wish to provide these children access to healthy food, clean water, education and the feeling of hope and togetherness.
Where are the orphans staying right now?
Right now the organisation in Bugiri is renting a small room with four walls and that is it. When we first started working together the children were lacking beds, mattresses, mosquito nets, not to mention any other furniture. That made it really easy for them to get sick or catch malaria. For now we have managed to donate mattresses and mosquito nets for them, but they are in need of a real home. The room where they are sleeping is also the room where they have to do the studying when the local school is closed. So at night time the betonite floor is full of mattresses and in the morning they put all the things away again to be able to turn it into a classroom.
What is our plan?
We are planning to buy enough land to build a house for the orphanage, dig a borehole well for clean drinkingwater and create a big vegetable garden with rainharvesting system which would allow their community to grow food also on dry seasons.
The house for the orphanage could offer shelter for kids without parents or for children from families that can’t support their wellbeing or education. We dream of a house that would run on solar-power, have a rainharvesting system to maintain water from rain-seasons and have enough room for the children to have their own bed, a place to keep their things, classroom for studying, kitchen for cooking food and a bathroom. We would also need to build toilets that could support a better hygiene and protect their water.
What do we need for that?
We already own enough land, have two houses and have access to clean drinking water. Next up we need better living conditions for our children. That means renovating the houses and providing children with proper beds, mattresses, mosquito nets and storing place for their personal belongings. We need to create a classroom with books and boards to help them study and hopefully continue with making it look like more of a home full of hope and joy, music and curiosity.
We also need to build a kitchen that would survive the rain season and allow them to cook with better conditions.
We need to create toilets with better hygiene and create washing conditions for the children.
For that we want to build a rain harvesting system for our house and while already finding sustainable solutions – also add some solar panels!
What’s the budget?
Renovating the houses and building a kitchen will cost somewhere around 10 000 EUR.
Providing the essential furniture and things needed for the orphanage work will cost around 4000 EUR.
Later we would also like to add a rain harvesting system and solar panels to our houses.
You can read more about the situation in Uganda, Bugiri here and if you have any questions about this project, feel free to ask us via e-mail or Instagram.
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