In May we had the pleasure of welcoming special visitors from Switzerland to our campus. Together with long-standing partners, we were able to officially open our new Family Home – a moment full of gratitude, because this building stands for hope, protection and a new beginning for particularly vulnerable children.
The Family Home was created to offer street children and children without a safe home a sheltered place to live in the long term and, at the same time, to give them an education at our campus school. For us, this project is far more than a building. It is a place where children are to experience security, love, stability and new prospects for the future.
Although the house has now been completed and opened, it will deliberately not start operating until next year. Over the coming months, together with the responsible local authorities, we will begin all the necessary approval and registration processes. Taking children in permanently brings great responsibility and is subject to clear legal requirements in Uganda. We want to respect these processes and go through them with the greatest care, so that we can offer the children a safe, professional and sustainably established home from the very beginning.
We are very much looking forward to the next step and continue to ask for good cooperation with the authorities and a successful start for the Family Home early next year.
