Mirembe's Babies Home, ACCT Uganda
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Since 2009 members of a service group from Southern Oregon have been going each year to Uganda to serve, love, and learn. The group was founded by pastor David Rapp from the Waters Edge Community Church, in Medford Oregon. David Rapp runs Hope at the Edge, an organization that holds trips for high school students, college students and adults to learn and serve in Uganda. The Amahoro Children and Community Team (ACCT) formed as a branching out from Hope at the Edge. ACCT continues to work in close collaboration with Hope at the Edge. ACCT will focus on supporting the homes and providing medical care and relief projects such as those in Kisenyi slum. ACCT also partners with Caleb Rukundo and the Amahoro Children’s Homes. We are devoted to providing locally lead solutions focused on the peoples most pressing needs. We support three childrens homes with over 150 kids total. We provide educational sponsorships and hold free annual medical clinics for the homes and the surrounding communities.
In August of 2016 the ACCT group dedicated the ground for the new babies home. in Matugga, Uganda. We have spent the last three years gathering ideas by visiting other babies homes in Kampala and seeing how they do things. As a result of this research we have a tentative design for the babies home; a house built around an enclosed courtyard. The courtyard would be open and visible from every room. The home would have staff quarters alternating between babies’ rooms, as well as glass windows between each room so babies can be quickly and quietly monitored at all times. The courtyard would be a play area. We also want to build a smaller room in the home we can keep warmer for premature infants.
Baby Mirembe was the first child Caleb rescued. Mirembe had Sickle Cell disease and she recovered nicely for a period of time at the Matugga home. But one day she suddenly began to deteriorate and a few weeks later she died of a probable “chest crisis.” She was dearly loved by Caleb, visitors who met her, and the other children, and just the mention of her name brings tears to Caleb and Pastor David’s eyes. We want to have a babies’ home to honor Mirembe, and to provide a safe nurturing home for the many children who are orphaned or abandoned in Kampala and the surrounding area. Check out our website for more information. https://amahorochildrenshomeug.org/
We are thankful for any support you can give. Amahoro! (East African word for peace)
In August of 2016 the ACCT group dedicated the ground for the new babies home. in Matugga, Uganda. We have spent the last three years gathering ideas by visiting other babies homes in Kampala and seeing how they do things. As a result of this research we have a tentative design for the babies home; a house built around an enclosed courtyard. The courtyard would be open and visible from every room. The home would have staff quarters alternating between babies’ rooms, as well as glass windows between each room so babies can be quickly and quietly monitored at all times. The courtyard would be a play area. We also want to build a smaller room in the home we can keep warmer for premature infants.
Baby Mirembe was the first child Caleb rescued. Mirembe had Sickle Cell disease and she recovered nicely for a period of time at the Matugga home. But one day she suddenly began to deteriorate and a few weeks later she died of a probable “chest crisis.” She was dearly loved by Caleb, visitors who met her, and the other children, and just the mention of her name brings tears to Caleb and Pastor David’s eyes. We want to have a babies’ home to honor Mirembe, and to provide a safe nurturing home for the many children who are orphaned or abandoned in Kampala and the surrounding area. Check out our website for more information. https://amahorochildrenshomeug.org/
We are thankful for any support you can give. Amahoro! (East African word for peace)
Organizer
Austin Morgan
Organizer
Jacksonville, OR
