The new year starts with a great surprise for our newly founded e.V.
The new year starts with a great surprise for our newly founded e.V.: Almost 10,000 euros in donations have been collected within a few weeks! A huge thank you from the children of HOREMI and from us!!! to all donors!
Naume and Kenneth, the people in charge of HOREMI, can hardly believe their luck when they hear about the enormous sum. However, in Ugandan pragmatic fashion, they quickly got their act together and immediately rolled up their sleeves for the big school project: every euro donated to the school is immediately invested in building materials and manpower.
The new school building is growing out of the ground in no time at all. Thanks to the unexpectedly available funds, this is going much faster than planned and so the first lessons can probably be held at the end of January! This is certainly still provisional — while the floor is still being laid in one classroom, the little ones next door are learning their first English words — but the most important point is that things are getting underway: The school building is finished!
In this blog post about the school project, you can see for yourself how German donations are directly creating prospects for Ugandan children. The first and biggest step has been taken with the construction of the school. However, further funds are needed for equipment, teaching materials and, last but not least, teachers’ salaries.
Seven new sponsorships
Another important project has also made great progress in recent months: seven more children are delighted to have found a sponsor who will support them with a monthly donation — and thus support the entire HOREMI community. Sponsorships (40 EUR/month) are the financial backbone of HOREMI, so new sponsors are very welcome.
Christmas in Uganda
Around 80 percent of the Ugandan population are Christians, so Christmas is an important festival. With the support of the Friends of HOREMI, Naume, Kenneth and the children were able to celebrate Christmas with a more substantial lunch and small gifts.
Hello HOREMI!
A long-cherished wish is also coming true for three of our association members: we are traveling to Uganda in March to visit Naume, Kenneth and the current 28 HOREMI kids. We have a lot of questions and ideas in our luggage as well as some urgently needed items that are difficult or very expensive to obtain locally (medicines, computer hardware, cell phones, …). So if you still have the penultimate iPhone, a discarded tablet or a notebook that is no longer quite as fast in the back of a drawer — please let us know! We are also happy to answer any questions, requests and comments about HOREMI or membership of our small association.