Purchase of water heaters for each bathroom
None of our bathrooms at Toro Babies Home have warm or hot water. When the bathrooms were renovated, there was simply not enough money for this. The water for bathing the children is heated in the kitchen using gas or firewood. The laundry is washed by the children’s carers with cold water and soap. We would very much like to be able to install a hot water supply system in all the houses so that the daily workload can be reduced.
New construction of the farmhouses on the vegetable farms in Kagote and Kasiisi
The accommodation for the farm workers who run our fruit and vegetable farms is hopelessly dilapidated and living in it is degrading. Thanks to Partnerschaft Gesunde Welt e.V., we were able to start building the new farmhouse in Kagote, a district of Fort Portal, in September 2024. Plumber David and Stephen Kamara are supervising the work. Now we need urgently further funding to build functioning accommodation for our farm worker in Kasiisi, around 30 minutes from Fort Portal.
A new transporter van
The Babheim’s van, which is now five years old again, has more than 500,000 kilometres on the clock and repairs are becoming more frequent and expensive. We urgently need to invest in a new vehicle so that we can use it to transport our children to school, to medical care in Kampala and to buy/harvest our food. At the moment we can still sell the van.
Employment of a paediatric nurse and a physiotherapist
We would like to employ a paediatric nurse – initially on a part-time basis – so that health problems can be recognised and treated more quickly and our disabled children can receive even more intensive support. She will look at the children regularly in accordance with the German preventive medical check-ups and provide regular digital documentation for each child. In this way, our paediatricians in Germany can be easily involved. Our disabled and developmentally delayed children, who are becoming more and more common in the baby home, would benefit greatly from a professional physiotherapist.
Renovation of the Office House and Nursery School
The Office House, where the accountant Joan and the matron have their offices, where the meeting room and the nursery school are housed, where the storage rooms for our food, household supplies and the clothing store are located, is in a desolate state. The kindergarten is too small and the toilet is dilapidated. We would like to modernise the building and build a second structure on top to make room for the kindergarten and a physiotherapy room. The offices, the meeting room and two guest rooms for our volunteers can then be accommodated on the new upper floor.
Vision family house step by step in Kagote
A long-term project is the construction of a family house on our farmland in Kagote, in which a carer/mother can live together with a disabled or developmentally delayed child and two to three other children without a family of their own. Naturally with regular monitoring and support from the baby home. As soon as the first house is ready for occupancy, we will collect donations for the construction of another family home.
