More space for the HOREMI Junior School

HOREMI Junior School needs more space. The Ugandan school system provides for seven primary classes (P1 to P7), but so far HOREMI can only offer classes P1 to P4. An exten­sion is needed to create space for P5 to P7.

Even in the wealthy west, people who build a house rarely have the entire budget in the bank. In Uganda, there is often a lack of even the most minimal start-up capital. However, if this is avail­able, then a house building project works a little differ­ently than in our country: as soon as the first Ugandan shillings are in the till, a few bricks are bought first. A few weeks (or months …) later, more bricks. Then a few beams. Then construc­tion steel and cement. And so on. And when there is enough mate­rial in the yard, the work begins.

Day 1 of the planned HOREMI school exten­sion: The first of the 30,000 or so bricks needed are deliv­ered.

Kenneth, the HOREMI manager, has calcu­lated that he needs around 30,000 of the hand­made (!) bricks for the school exten­sion. This is essen­tial because the admin­is­tra­tion stip­u­lates that oper­a­tors of a primary school must offer all seven grades within a certain period of time.

Many thou­sands of foun­da­tion stones have now been laid: Thanks to the great will­ing­ness of the Friends of HOREMI to donate, quite a bit of the budget has already been collected and the Ugandan-prag­matic construc­tion project can begin: On June 17, the Friends of HOREMI trans­ferred a first tranche of Uganda shillings*, and on June 18 in the morning the first bricks were deliv­ered to the site. That’s how it works at HOREMI!

We would like to thank our generous donors, look forward to the further construc­tion progress and will report regu­larly here.

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.

^{* For the money transfer to Uganda, we use special­ized transfer service providers such as Worl­dRemit. The money is avail­able on site in just a few minutes via “Mobile Money”. Mobile money is wide­spread in Africa and works amaz­ingly easily and reli­ably: without a bank account and with simple mobile phones (even with ancient Nokia and Siemens phones …).}