THE CONSTRUCTION OF OUR adminIstrative support house IS CURRENTLY ONGOING

Quality education means our teachers and administration must be supported, too.

Building Phase III
Current state of our construction up to the roofing beams

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Last year we broke ground in January 2021 to begin building our first structure! This ongoing construction will be an administrative support house for our nursery (U.S. preschool equivalent) opening in February 2023, and this year we’re excited to FINISH it!

This administrative support house will serve orphaned and vulnerable children as originally intended by ensuring our school’s faculty and staff are adequately supported. Because our village is remote, this house is greatly needed to sustain our presence in the community— the daily lives and homes of our future students— and involvement in the school. In other words, when our administration is well cared for, our children are too!

This house will also allow our directors to be on-site daily, and provides room for their living quarters, school office spaces, a mini clinic, and a library as school resources. Ultimately, this five-room house meets our long-term goal of establishing a forever presence in our rural village to simultaneously care for children and meet the needs of our neighbors, beginning with the opening of this house and our first school.

Now that the roofing beams are up, we invite you to help us meet the remaining goal of $30,000 to finish and furnish the house!

See our Construction in Phases!

Community neighbors helping to stop the fire after burning the bush grasses for land clearing before the building began

Co-founder, Ocen standing with the building contractor and drawing plan in hand to determine the best location of the house on our land

Cows strolling through the land after the bush grasses were burned for land clearing

Founders, Ocen and Jordan on top of a massive ant hill that was destroyed to make room for the building of the house

Builders determining the house's size and placement during measurements

Founders, Ocen and Jordan setting up a hammock for seating during the first days of the site clearing

INTRO PHASE: MOBILIZATION TO THE SITE

We broke ground on Wednesday, January 27, 2021! What a momentous day to rejoice for the hope coming to orphaned children in Northern Uganda! Phase I of the construction should last for approximately three weeks and includes mobilization to the site, bush burning to clear the ground, excavation to set the foundation and building the main walls.

The first truck to reach our village, parked at our village's center carrying eucalyptus and pine tree poles to begin the construction

Builders at site working to develop the foundation for casting

A builder laying bricks for the house's foundation

A builder spreading cement for casting the foundation

Builders preparing the cast the foundation with hardcore rocks

Co-founder, Ocen on site taking photos of the construction progress

PHASE I: GROUNDBREAKING AND FOUNDATION SETTING

Directors, Jordan and Ocen with friends in our Phase II structure

Construction workers building out the main wall of one of the rooms

One of the porters carrying mixed cement to the house for the foundation to be casted

Director, Ocen on site seeing the building activity during Phase II

Site builders laying hardcore rocks to ensure a strong foundation prior to casting the main veranda

A view of the front of the home with the main wall raised to the beam level for Phase III roofing to begin

PHASE II: BUILDING OUT THE MAIN WALLS

Phase II was a busy time on site yet the most exciting! The builders worked diligently to build out the main walls of the home, raising them to the beam level so that Phase III could have a successful start to the roofing and installation of doors and windows.

PHASE I ON SITE

PHASE II ON SITE

Help us finish the remaining phases and open the house in 2023!

Remaining Phases:

Plastering, plumbing, electrical works ($10,809)
Painting walls, tiling floors ($7,089)
Installing solar systems, panels, and appliances ($5,442)

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