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.

My message to those mistreating orphans

My message to those mistreating orphans

No parent wishes to die and leave his or her child an orphan. Bear in mind that on one has ever made an agreement with God on the day of death, they often find themselves there and once it comes like it or not you must hit the exit door.

 “Man is born crying, live grumbling and dies unsatisfied”.

We have seen many people at the point of death, they accept all but just cry over their blood they are leaving behind. They also wish they can do all they can to make their lives and families happy. So do all you can but remember that you never made an agreement with God meaning you can also hit the exit door anytime. But if so, would you need your children to be treated the way your acting The world would be a better place if we loved each other on a daily basis. If such existed, we would not be having wars, abduction, rampant killings, torture and mistreatment among many other antisocial practices.

I feel the pain that others feel, it makes me unhappy and I shed tears while seeing our fellow God believers being tortured and at the same time living in desperate situations.

TO THE FRIENDLY WORLD

Not everyone who loses a parent or guardian has someone behind to look after him or her thereafter. Such people end up going on streets, practice other bad activities so that they acquire a living. These people are innocent without any reason as to why they are in such as a state only they find in themselves in such a situation. Be a blessing to others as God commanded us, you can be the hope and a key to somebody else’s happiness and hope. The clothes no longer useful to you are so important to somebody else. They might be the ones someone has never dreamt to put on. The same applies to shoes, mattress, bed sheets, play materials, food and many others. Just be kind and give out them to the one in need. A mere word “thanks” will earn you a thousand blessings. To help someone does not always mean you have much to give. Some people are helping when they are also struggling. That is what we call “real love”. Remember that there someone who is left to die just because they need the single dollar that you think it is too little to give to someone. There is another one who is dying because of hunger. I call you to be a blessing, a source of happiness to someone and a person someone will never forget for a lifetime. If you have seen this  message, forward and share so that we create an ideal life for the needy.

A Parable from the greatest of all Teachers.

Said Jesus: "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of cruel brigands, who robbed him, stripped him and beat him, and departing, left him half dead. Very soon, by chance, a certain priest was going down that way, and when he came upon the wounded man, seeing his sorry plight, he passed by on the other side of the road. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came along and saw the man, passed by on the other side. Now, about this time, a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed down to Jericho, came across this wounded man; and when he saw how he had been robbed and beaten, he was moved with compassion, and going over to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and setting the man upon his own beast, brought him here to the inn and took care of him. And on the morrow he took out some money and, giving it to the host, said: `Take good care of my friend, and if the expense is more, when I come back again, I will repay you.' Now let me ask you: Which of these three turned out to be the neighbor of him who fell among the robbers?" And when the lawyer perceived that he had fallen into his own snare, he answered, "He who showed mercy on him." And Jesus said, "Go and do likewise."

Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga

A touching story about the woman in great pain which calls for your attention.

The brothers and sister who have been following our facebook posts and updates on different sites, I remember to have brought to you a story about kasango ayubu and their grandmother who was taking care of the six children who became total orphans after the death of their mother in 2011 and their father who passed in December 2019.

It wasn't possible for this woman to take care of the children and thereafter some went on streets for survival where we found ayubu who led us to place where their grandmother was living. We found them at Bukawongo village, Imanyiro subcounty in Mayuge district, After we adopted Ayubu and his sister to HOCI.

This family was living in unbearable condition to the extent that even getting what to eat sometimes was not possible.

Last month she got an accident and later got some treatment which we had believed that it worked for her but it was not the case.

The sickness resumed and the health condition went from worse to worst.
She was then taken to the nearby hospital and later referred to Iganga District Hospital for further treatment. This woman has been admitted to Iganga District hospital in the female ward on bed No 8 The medical results shows that there is born missorder and the kidney got a problem. From the Doctors, this woman has to first get some treatment for born missorder for at least one week before going for operation. This woman can not just be directly taken for operation until she get treatment for the born missorder.i

BACKGROUND

Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga Uganda is a development focused initiative with its activities inclined to support the orphans and vulnerable children, support to people with disabilities, support to the elders, widows/widowers, support and care to the young mothers, identifying and support to destitute families, and evangelization of spiritual faith to the needy communities, plus social function management, capacity building, but also other income generating activities which are local, national, international CBO/NGO.
The organization was started in 2015 by Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga after seeing that there is a great number of street children and children living with HIV/AIDS in the community.
This was formed in order to help children from infant stage up to 18 years in case he/she is an orphan or helpless, these will be given clothes, scholastics materials, food, medication, gifts, shelter, safe drinking water and many more.

MOTTO VISION, MISSION AND GOAL
OUR MOTTO
Restore the happiness for needy
VISION
To provide children with basic needs and vulnerable support.
MISSION
“To ensure that all children and needy people get basic needs with their rights observed and respected”
GOAL
“To reach out all kinds of orphans and helpless children in the community of Bugweri district and other areas in Uganda”
OBJECTIVES.
 Assessing child welfare needs for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children and coordinating resource for their care.
 Providing psychological care to orphans, widows and children whose lives have been affected by Aids.
 Empowering widows economically through pursuing income generating activities and vocational training.
 Providing formal education for orphan and vulnerable families are affected by AIDS.
 Sensitizing and educating communities with HIV/AIDS.
 Providing mobile palliative care for people living with aids.
 Providing spiritual care and support.
 To impart life skills and values that will help youths and vulnerable women, plus people with disabilities fight their life challenges like HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, peer influence, and immorality etc.
 Advocating and creating for articulating orphans’ concerns, issues, rights and interests.
 To promote voluntary action and work in partnership with economically disadvantaged groups most especially youths, widows, people with disabilities, women and children.
 To evangelize the Gospel of God so as to heal the spiritually unempowered people.
STRATEGIC AREAS AND ACTIVITIES
The organization shall engage in the following activities
1) Empower the care givers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)
2) To save orphans from frustrational conditions or engagements and all sorts of risks to their lives.
3) Capacity building to communities in order to direct them objectively
4) Spiritual evangelization.
5) To restore joy, care and love among the orphans and vulnerable children.
6) To improve on the health status of the orphans and vulnerable children.

MANAGEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION
NAME POSITION CONTACT
Naigaga Naume Director +256775059722
Kabweru Kenneth Ivan Assistant director +256774758108
Maganda Wilber Mobliser +256786731880
Mugonzi Judith Projects coordinator +256789196365
Kyakoba Teddy Children Trainer +256752740691
Mudondo Peruse Matron +256754618949
Nabirye joy Choir mistress +256754784304

THE CHILDREN UNDER OUR CARE
NAME SEX CLASS CURRENT SCHOOL
Naikwanga Joan F Senior Three Nkutu Memorial Ss
Naimwaga Yobu M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Logose Karen F - -
Kaziba Solomon M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Kaziba Sanon M Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Namayinde Rauthat F - -
Kisige Sare M - -
Nkaire Souce M Primary Seven Lubira Primary School
Nabaigwa Sandra F Primary Seven Lubira Primary School
Wanzige Reagan M Senior One Devine Hope Ss
Nangobi Shanitah F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Nangobi Shirat F Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Mutesi Erina F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Nangobi Peruse F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Mutesi Elizabeth F Primary Two Lubira Primary School
Maganda fahad M Middle Class God’s Mercy Primary School
Nakayima tahia F Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Nfaki Samuel M Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Balaba Wilson M Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Nabwire Olivia F Primary Five Lubira Primary School
Osaka Gerald M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Muwaya James M - -
Kakaire Abu M Primary Three Lubira Primary School
Kakaire Alamanzan M Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Naigulu Racheal F Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Wakibi Eria M Primary Six Lubira Primary School
Nabirye Mwamini F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Bulage Aisha F Primary Four Lubira Primary School
Balisengawa Isaac M Primary Five Bumoozi primary school
Mutesi Sophie F Primary Four Bumoozi primary school
Nabakooza Retisha F Middle Class Bumoozi primary school
Nabawanika Shakirah F - -
Namaganda Hasifah F - -
Nabirye Mirabu F - -
Kikaire Yisa M - -
Kirunda Bumali M -

ACHIEVEMENTS OF HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE –IGANGA
EDUCATION
Education and termly school fees: Normally, the home has continuously provided proper education through sending the gathered children under our care to school as most of the children are in primary that have been supported in both government schools and others being sponsored to attend private school as well as educational scholastic materials. The Centre has continued to provide termly fees to children under our care without stopping. However, the challenge is that sometimes resources are not enough to cover up all the termly fees in time. Besides, the children move a long distance of 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school.

Continuous provision of scholastic materials. It is to our concern that every child deserves a right to access to scholastic materials to release his/her God- Given talent into good use. Normally, we have managed to continuously provide scholastic materials like books, pens and mathematical sets e.t.c before the beginning of every new term for the children to return back to school. The Centre has managed to provide a few school bags to some children under our care in addition to the scholastic materials. However, the challenge is that at the home, there is limited reading materials say holiday packages, text books and reading charts hence the thinking capacity of the children under our care as well as uplifting their performance to the top.
On the issue of playing materials; the home has managed to get a few play materials say dolls and balls though there is still limited / less materials for the children to use say netball, volley ball, chess, board games among others as the bible says let the little children enjoy while still young because when one grows, among things change.

BASIC NEEDS
Continuous provision of basic needs; The organization has continued to provide basic needs of life to the needy children and widows in the community since the Centre started up to date. These include toothpaste, soap, petroleum body jerry and among other items that are useful to the daily human life.
Continuous provision of clothing and shoes; As every after a term spent at school, the children at the home are provided with new clothing and shoes as those that they have been using get tone and cannot be repaired time after time unless replaced with new ones. The Centre has managed to provide 32 pairs of school shoes and 32 sandles to the needy children at home. We most times appeal to the good Samaritans with a giving heart to contribute the little they have to make this happen as this is now the biggest challenge at home amidst absence of enough funds to cater for the children’s clothing and shoes.
Continuous feeding of the children at the home: Normally on a daily basis, the home provides a well-spaced/balanced meal from breakfast, lunch to supper/ dinner) to the protected children under our care for a better health living. However, the challenge has been that, the home still lacks enough funds to purchase timely foodstuffs that are prepared at the home as sometimes meals are skipped to reach every child in the community.

Purchase of tables and chairs. The Centre has managed to acquire 5 plastic chairs and a big a big office counter and six benches that is being used by the children to have their meals in a comfortable environment. We thank God for what we have at the home even though we still need more tables and plastic chairs to cater for the available and ever increasing number of needy children that are being identified everyday within the community.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community visits; The Centre has continuously visited community members especially the widows and single mothers as well as elderly people in a way of giving them hope and courage to live a happy life. This has been done in a way to provide relief help in terms of food stuffs, moral support among others.
Clean-up outreaches Normally, the home carries out communal work and gives back to the community through a sensitization program carried out by our team and the few volunteers at the home. This has contributed a positive change in the few homes that have been reached out too for example caring for the widows and elderly who are in the community where the home is being located as these are no longer in position to cater for their needs and cannot even wash for themselves since they have no one around them to care for them.

Identifying and registering new children. Normally, the children’s home management has continued to identify new orphans especially those in the alarming state who are mostly without caretakers or guardians these include Nabaigwa Sandra, Nkaire Souce Peter, Wanzige Reagan, and Nangobi Shanita. Despite of the challenges, we have managed to reach at least a quite a number of the children who need in different aspects of life as every child deserves the best in life and for a vast happy future.

LAND
The Centre has managed to purchase another piece of land on addition to the one acre that was purchased in 2018 in preparation for the expansion of the home that will be more spaced to cater for the children who are under our care and also the proposed projects for the organization. The land purchased stretches 95 fits in by 135 fits and it is located adjacent the organization. This land has been also used for agriculture as we prepare to construct new structures.

AGRICULTURE
Introduction of income generating projects
The Centre has managed to establish new projects to help in raising extra incomes that are used to cater/cover other expenditures that may be encountered in the due course and also to try achieving self sustainability. However, there have been a number of challenges faced while managing these projects.
These projects include;

Chicken project; The organization has managed to rear a few chickens which are local in breed. They are 159 in number with an aim of getting eggs for the children and also to generate income for the organization to meet the unexpected expanses and also needs of the children under our care. However, these birds are being attacked by diseases and some thieves who were threatening us, good enough we managed to get a security guard who is providing us with security during the night hours.
Vegetable growing; The Centre has established a small demonstration plot on the newly purchased land where different varieties are being grown on the piece of land as a way to add on food supply that is mostly purchased from the market. These vegetables ranges from egg plants, sukuma wiki and solnum that have been grown for the children’s balanced deity while at the home.

Tree planting; In response to climate change, the Centre has embarked on tree planting on the purchased land as a way to preserve the environment and the earth at large as climate change cases are so rampant all around the world. We believe that the trees planted especially the fruit trees will be of great use to the children as at the same time will be providing shades during seasons and wind breakers during rainy season.

Crop growing; Despite the little space we have for agriculture, the organization has managed to hire pieces of land and grow a number of crops. We hired two acres of land for four years and grew a few food and root crops say ground nuts, sweet potatoes, cassava and maize. However there is a challenge of unfavorable climatic conditions say drought which was experienced for some months. Under this period, crop growing goes to a standstill

CURRENT CHALLENGES FACED AT HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE-IGANGA
1. The organization has registered significant achievements amidst the many challenges it faces and not limited too;-
2. First and foremost, the children move a long distance of nearly 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school. This is a very long distance to moved by a child of three years to move every morning and evening. We are of the view to establish a foundation school such that the children under our care get education right from the centre.
3. There is limited reading and school materials for example holiday packages, monthly packages, books among others of the children under our care especially to those who are being sponsored to attend school.
4. Limited monthly necessities/ basic needs at the Centre is a challenge despite of the efforts being used to aid in the supply of basic needs of life
5. Insufficient medication at the Centre that is carried out on weekly and monthly basis but this has been limited due to absence of enough funds to cover the costs of both medical check-up and treatment.
6. Limited playing materials and playing uniforms for the protected children at the home for example absence of both netball and footballs for the children, game boards among others all to enhance the thinking capacity of these children.
7. Absence of land for expansion on farming and animal rearing
8. Inadequate funding to pay workers
9. Lacks of enough office stationary as well as office requirements say computer, bookshelf and other materials.
10. Absence of organization website to update on the ongoing organization projects.
11. There of prolonged drought that makes our crops sometimes to dry up while still in the garden immature.

OUR PLANS AND NEEDS BOTH LONG TERM AND SHORT TERM
Crop growing
We are of the view to hire five acres of land to grow more food and vegetables so as to ensure food security.

Establishing a foundation school (Hope Junior School)
This has been considered vital as an attempt to cut off the children under our care from moving a long distance of nearly 2 kilometers to reach the nearby school. For more about this, refer to the hope junior school proposal.
Poultry farm

We are of the view to establish a soundable project that will be dealing in the rearing of chicken for commercial purposes so as to attain self-sustainability of the organization. See the budget below;
ITEM NUMBER AMOUNT IN UGX AMOUNT IN USD
One Day Old Chicks 1000 3700000 1057
Feeds 1000 4000000 1142
Poultry House 5 2000000 571
Feeders 50 250000 71
Drinkers 50 400000 114
TOTAL 10350000 2957

HOPE SKILLING CENTRE.
As an attempt to ensure that the children will be able to sustain themselves after here, we plan to establish a skilling centre that will equip with the children the vast skills for survival in the future. Hair dressing, tailoring and fashion design, computer skills, art and craft will be equipped with the children under our care. Below is a simple budget

ITEM QTY UNIT COST AMOUNT IN UGX AMOUNT IN USD
Buildings 3 2,000,000 6000000 1714.285714
Sawing Machines 30 400,000 12000000 3428.571429
Computers 30 600,000 18000000 5142.857143
Saloon 1 2,500,000 2500000 714.2857143
Total 11,000

COMPLETION OF THE HOME
We are expecting to plaster our home and do the finishing

MONTHLY REQUIREMENTS

OTHER NEEDS

PHOTO GALLERY OF HOPE ORPHANS CENTRE IGANGA
 

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DIRECTOR’S DETAILS
Name : Naigaga Naume
Country : Uganda
City : Iganga
Email : hopeorphanscentre@gmail.com
Mobile Number : +256775059722
Posta Number : P.O Box 2036, Iganga

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR’S DETAILS
Name : Kabweru Kenneth Ivan
Country : Uganda
City : Buwama
Email : hopeorphansc@gmail.com
Mobile Number : +256774758108
Posta Number : PO Box 2036, Iganga

Thank You So Much. May God Bless You and the Work of Your Hands

Here are the report cards for the children at HOCI for the second term 2019. Next term commences on 16th September 2019 which is the term for promotion

Lubira Primary School Bugweri