HOREMI is growing and expanding

  • October 2026

About 250 chil­dren now attend the HOREMI Junior School. As the student body has grown, so have the government’s require­ments regarding the school’s facil­i­ties, safety and hygiene.

Since its opening in 2024, the HOREMI School has devel­oped so well that Ugandan author­i­ties are pushing for national regis­tra­tion and compre­hen­sive licensing. To obtain these, HOREMI must meet stricter require­ments. And that means addi­tional orga­ni­za­tional and finan­cial effort. It’s a good thing the Friends of HOREMI are there…

Better Hygiene and Health Protec­tion for School­children

The construc­tion of new sani­tary facil­i­ties on the school grounds has become partic­u­larly urgent. There is a need for addi­tional or improved restrooms as well as enclosed wash­rooms (which did not exist at all until now), with sepa­rate facil­i­ties for girls and boys. A signif­i­cant portion of our current aid is there­fore being directed toward the construc­tion of new sani­tary facil­i­ties.

In progress: Soon, the girls and boys will each have their own restrooms and wash­rooms.

A total of eight addi­tional restrooms for girls and boys, as well as a block with sepa­rate restrooms for teachers, are planned. As soon as the funding is secured, things will move quickly, as always: Construc­tion has been underway for about two weeks, and we expect it to be completed by the end of October.

Digging pits—like this one for the new toilet—is hard manual labor in Uganda.
A little “luxury” is allowed: tiles instead of bare concrete floors, as before.

More Living Space for the HOREMI Chil­dren

And there’s another construc­tion-related issue that’s been weighing on our minds for quite some time. It concerns the Children’s Home—specifically, the currently cramped living condi­tions of the HOREMI boys, many of whom are now teenagers. That’s why we’re currently converting and refur­bishing a storage building—which was previ­ously unsuit­able for resi­den­tial use—to create an addi­tional dormi­tory for the “seniors.”

A ruin and former storage room is converted into an addi­tional sleeping area.
Clever: The scaf­folding is held in place by holes in the wall, which will be filled in after the work is finished.
Freshly plas­tered and almost finished: The boys are looking forward to their new sleep house.

Greater Safety for Everyone at HOREMI

The next major construc­tion project will be the complete fencing of the entire prop­erty to meet the rele­vant safety require­ments set by the author­i­ties. We are there­fore currently working to deter­mine what type of fence is neces­sary and appro­priate for this purpose, as well as what costs HOREMI will incur. 

All invest­ments made by the Friends of HOREMI will continue to focus on the well-being of the chil­dren at the Children’s Home. It will never be able to exist without dona­tions. The HOREMI School, on the other hand, is intended to stand on its own two feet in the long term. To that end, Kenneth and his team work hard every day on the ground—and we at Friends of HOREMI support them as best we can. This ensures that the school can make a lasting contri­bu­tion to educa­tion in Uganda, which is so impor­tant. Thank you to all our donors for your support!

Daily life for HOREMI kids: Rauthat, Isaac, and Lilian are bringing the goats into the barn.

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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