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Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga

In Uganda their are over one million children orphaned and in need of support from the world communities.

Please if you will help to remedy this situation by assisting those willing to offer the necessities of life and the possibility of education to these little ones. 

My Story

I am Naigaga Naume born on 23rd July 1969 at Bwayuya village in Bulange subcounty in the current Namutumba District. . My father was the late Ntende Benefansi (retired soldier) who died when I was only 16 years and mother was Namukose Getrude (peasant) who died two years after the death of my father. I am the first born of the four children of my mother although my father had married two wives.

By profession am a primary teacher. My father died in 1986 and the mother died in 1988, my sister. By that time, I had just finished my senior four. The step mother (Namaganda who is still alive) started becoming a problem to us, we were seriously mistreated, she was ever promising to make us follow our mum and yet it is believed that this step mom was behind the death of our mother. We tried to endure but after my young sister surviving poison, we organize to move away and start a new life.

I decided to go and rent a small room where we had to stay. My sisters were in lower classes, I had to put my education on a standstill and start looking for a job in order for life to move on. I landed a job in a few months and started working as a licenced teacher. Later I went to Kyambogo University to professionalise. Nothing was given to us such that life can move on since we were all girls. Life later became so hard, my young sisters later went and married. At the age of 28, I joined the college for a certificate in primary teaching and in that very year I got married and start a family.

In 2010, one of my sisters passed away and the following year my husband also went. I started life again with my four children Nankwaga Hellen, Nabirye Miriam, Wako Derick and Kyakoba Teddy. After I later adopted three children who were suffering when they were still very young. In 2013 I adopted more two to make them five, by that time, I was able to get the little I can to facilitate them. In 2015, more children were identified and joined us, In that very year I registered it as a NGO/CBO Non government Organization / Community Based Organization in the name of Hope Orphans Centre Iganga with 12 children. The members went on increasing and the church joined me and other well wishers to meet the needs of these children who we were keeping in an apartment that we were renting. Later the friends joined us to advise on how we can make this moving on and support to create an ideal life for the children.

In 2017, we went again for renewal of the NGO/CBS registration with 22 children under our care, we also started plans of constructing a permanent home for these children. In 2018, the number of children increased to 28 after a number joining us. We also started getting some funding for the construction of the home, we started by growing some crops which were sold for money to start with. Later that year, we managed to buy one acre of land, construction started immediately. By early 2019, these building we're ready although not is a very good condition one could expect but at least they had got somewhere to spend night. We started with the big house you usually see with red iron sheets and the other on the other side. In May that very year, the Brown Mission Society blessed us with another piece of land equivalent to half an acre located adjacent the organization.

In early 2020, after making brick, we managed to set up a poultry unit and a kitchen. Currently we are having 38 children under our care with me as the director and Kabweru Kenneth Ivan as the assistant director. Only a few friends have ever got this story from me because I feel sad and shed tears whenever I remember where I came from and what I went through. I know it is very hard but nothing is permanent. Sometimes the Lord knows how to change things. Read Mathew 21:42.

I greatly thank the dear brothers and sisters in Christ who have been moving with us and still there up to now. Really in your presence, I can still stand. At the moment, we managed to get 10 mattress for 38 children although they have even become old meaning many of them are sleeping on local carpets. All children are having the beds but some still lied on the floor due to the lack of proper beds. My birthday is coming 12 days from today on 23rd of this month. I am still looking for friends, organizations, churches and private individuals who can help for my mission to go on. At the moment, we need to establish a Foundation School and a Vocational Institution purposely to equip the needy with real life skills for survival, we need beds, mattresses, renovation of the Hope Home and also other structures to accommodate more needy people and also established other income generating projects so that the organization can stop relying on donations all the time not forgetting the day to day needs say food, water, medical care, soap, clothes, shoes among many more. With great thanks,  I am happy for making me a public figure in the support of the needy in Africa.

Regards Naigaga Naume HOCI Let's go and change the world.