Note From Father Mugagga
Dearest friends,
"I thank you so much for the tremendous concern you have for the disadvantaged girls of St. Elizabeth Girls Home in Uganda. This is a home and a school for orphaned street girls who would have no one to love them and take care of them if it were not for such generous friends like you. Thank you so much for all the support you offer, both material and moral. It is because of your love that this orphanage will manage to go on.
Right now, we have about two hundred girls congregated in one old structure and tents on approximately one acre of land. Under the current conditions, it is nearly impossible to properly equip these girls with the skills they need to live on their own someday. This is why we need your help to forge ahead with the SEGA campus.
My personal appeal to you is that you assist us to buy land and build an organized campus, The St. Elizabeth Girls Academy, so that together we may help many more children to have a future.
Together we can change lives for a better world and give precious hearts hope. Thank you so much for your generosity. May God continue to bless you for your love."
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Mugagga Lule
New Building Site
Photos of proposed land site:
Since the school’s foundation in 1998, an average of 200 girls live in tents and dilapidated buildings on a one acre piece of land.
We have plans to construct a new academy and campus which will assist us to help the helpless, far better than we can do so now. The goal is to promote the survival, protection, and development of children in Uganda. With your generous help, we will assist more vulnerable girls and orphans in Uganda, empowering them with survival skills for self reliance. The skills involve vocational trainning programs such us: catering, tailoring, home economics, computer skills, agriculture, and the breeding of livestock.
We will continue to offer physical and emotional support to the girls. Currently we offer two counseling and guidance sessions for all girls per week. The girls attend mass four times per week. They also clean and care for the facility on an on-going basis. In addition, we provide social and spiritual development and support, recreational, activities and girl’s sports programs. The daily schedule is 6:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
After graduation: we provide post trainning support services for girls after they leave the home. Resettlement kits are provided to the girls, if we are lucky enough to get a donor. For example, we have provided girls with sewing machines as they leave, and we monitor how they progress on their own, giving advice where we can. We have also assisted girls in securing job placement after trainning and graduation.
The new rehabilitation center will assist us in furthering the above framework. We wish to relocate to a 50 acre piece of land which will be the permanent site for the new vocational and rehabilitation institue. This new facility will be able to house 800-1,000 girls.
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS:
PHASE I: LAND PURCHASE – $100,000 USD
PHASE II: CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING/CAMPUS – $4,480,903 USD
ANNUAL OPERATING COST – $190,000 USD
These costs will include food, necessities,course materials and supplies, etc.
We are currently working on an itemized budget for this. Building plans available here. We will need to secure funding for this as well.
No donation is too small, every penny truly counts for these girls to stay alive and have future. There are several ways to fund this project:
Online donation: |
Sponsor-a-child |
By mail: St. Elizabeth Girls Academy |
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From the Heart – Hope for Hearts
In 2007, Las Vegas resident Cristen Jacobsen McCormick founded Hope for Hearts to fund the programs at St. Elizabeth’s Girls’ Academy, a school/orphanage in Kampala City, Uganda. To fund it, the girls at the academy construct from paper, lovely necklaces. Available at Annabelle’s All Occasions (4280 So. Hualapai Way 702-364-1184).
