Final sprint for the school expansion

  • November 2025

After many weeks of stand­still, work can finally continue: workers have been back on site for several days now to complete the exten­sion of the HOREMI Junior School.

The shell of the new school building was already completed in August and the roof was covered. Although the floors and plaster were still missing, the shell was already being used in part—for example, for large meet­ings or exams. Now the remaining inte­rior work can finally be tackled: Currently, all rooms are being given a solid concrete floor, the walls are being plas­tered, and finally painted inside and out.

Impro­vi­sa­tion is part of everyday life in Uganda. The shell of the building already served well during the students’ major exams.

This was made possible primarily by two generous indi­vidual dona­tions. The entire proceeds of €900 raised by the volun­teer oper­a­tors of the Welt­laden fair trade shop in Hemmingen through the sale of home­made cakes went to HOREMI. Another generous donor contributed an addi­tional €1,000. HOREMI would like to express its special thanks to all of them!

It‘s starting again: the floor is being concreted and further construc­tion is progressing.

Unfor­tu­nately, construc­tion had stalled due to increased costs that exceeded the previous budget. Another very dramatic cause of the delays was that Naume and the HOREMI team had to manage without Kenneth for weeks. He had been seri­ously injured in a car acci­dent, in which two of his passen­gers were killed. Kenneth is also recov­ering only slowly; his injured leg is still not fully healed and cannot bear weight.

Kenneth is now devoting all his energy to the further devel­op­ment of the HOREMI Junior School. The most impor­tant goal at present, apart from completing the construc­tion, is to register the school as a national educa­tional insti­tu­tion. This nation­wide regis­tra­tion is manda­tory as soon as all seven elemen­tary school grades are offered – which will be the case at HOREMI from the coming school year. This requires a wide range of require­ments to be met, not only with regard to the rooms and the size of the school grounds, but also with regard to the qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the teachers and the type of equip­ment provided – including such exotic-sounding require­ments as the guar­an­teed absence of snakes (!) in the school toilets.

Thanks to the dona­tions, the new school building will be fully oper­a­tional by 2026. This will increase the school’s capacity and stabi­lize its finan­cial base. It is an impor­tant step toward the long-term goal of economic inde­pen­dence for the HOREMI School.

This is what the new school building looks like from in mid-November without the final coat of paint.
And thanks to dona­tions, the building is completely plas­tered inside and out by the end of November.

We would like to thank our generous donors, and we look forward to the comple­tion of the building together with our friends in Uganda. We will keep you updated!.

Would you like to give the chil­dren of HOREMI a helping hand? You can donate quickly and easily here. Thank you very much!

You can find all the ways to support HOREMI on our dona­tions page.

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