{"id":5105,"date":"2026-10-12T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:57:25","slug":"horemi-is-growing-and-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/horemi-is-growing-and-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"HOREMI is growing and expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About 250 chil\u00addren now attend the HOREMI Junior School. As the student body has grown, so have the government\u2019s require\u00adments regarding the school\u2019s facil\u00adi\u00adties, safety and hygiene.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its opening in 2024, the HOREMI School has devel\u00adoped so well that Ugandan author\u00adi\u00adties are pushing for national regis\u00adtra\u00adtion and compre\u00adhen\u00adsive licensing. To obtain these, HOREMI must meet stricter require\u00adments. And that means addi\u00adtional orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtional and finan\u00adcial effort. It\u2019s a good thing the Friends of HOREMI are there\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better Hygiene and Health Protec\u00adtion for School\u00adchildren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construc\u00adtion of new sani\u00adtary facil\u00adi\u00adties on the school grounds has become partic\u00adu\u00adlarly urgent. There is a need for addi\u00adtional or improved restrooms as well as enclosed wash\u00adrooms (which did not exist at all until now), with sepa\u00adrate facil\u00adi\u00adties for girls and boys. A signif\u00adi\u00adcant portion of our current aid is there\u00adfore being directed toward the construc\u00adtion of new sani\u00adtary facil\u00adi\u00adties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In progress: Soon, the girls and boys will each have their own restrooms and wash\u00adrooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A total of eight addi\u00adtional restrooms for girls and boys, as well as a block with sepa\u00adrate restrooms for teachers, are planned. As soon as the funding is secured, things will move quickly, as always: Construc\u00adtion has been underway for about two weeks, and we expect it to be completed by the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digging pits\u2014like this one for the new toilet\u2014is hard manual labor in Uganda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A little \u201cluxury\u201d is allowed: tiles instead of bare concrete floors, as before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More Living Space for the HOREMI Chil\u00addren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s another construc\u00adtion-related issue that\u2019s been weighing on our minds for quite some time. It concerns the Children\u2019s Home\u2014specifically, the currently cramped living condi\u00adtions of the HOREMI boys, many of whom are now teenagers. That\u2019s why we\u2019re currently converting and refur\u00adbishing a storage building\u2014which was previ\u00adously unsuit\u00adable for resi\u00adden\u00adtial use\u2014to create an addi\u00adtional dormi\u00adtory for the \u201cseniors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ruin and former storage room is converted into an addi\u00adtional sleeping area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Clever: The scaf\u00adfolding is held in place by holes in the wall, which will be filled in after the work is finished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Freshly plas\u00adtered and almost finished: The boys are looking forward to their new sleep house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Greater Safety for Everyone at HOREMI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next major construc\u00adtion project will be the complete fencing of the entire prop\u00aderty to meet the rele\u00advant safety require\u00adments set by the author\u00adi\u00adties. We are there\u00adfore currently working to deter\u00admine what type of fence is neces\u00adsary and appro\u00adpriate for this purpose, as well as what costs HOREMI will incur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All invest\u00adments made by the Friends of HOREMI will continue to focus on the well-being of the chil\u00addren at the Children\u2019s Home. It will never be able to exist without dona\u00adtions. 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\u2014and we at Friends of HOREMI support them as best we can. This ensures that the school can make a lasting contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to educa\u00adtion in Uganda, which is so impor\u00adtant. Thank you to all our donors for your support!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily life for HOREMI kids: Rauthat, Isaac, and Lilian are bringing the goats into the barn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Would you like to give the chil\u00addren of HOREMI a helping hand? You can donate quickly and easily here<\/a>. Thank you very much!<\/mark>
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You can find all the ways to support HOREMI on our dona\u00adtions page.<\/a><\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HOREMI continues to build: In partic\u00adular, new restroom facil\u00adi\u00adties are needed, in part to meet the rele\u00advant regu\u00adla\u00adtory require\u00adments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horemi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}