Giving Healthy Sleeping Conditions Could Save Childrens’ Lives

PROJECT UPDATE, UGANDA — Masa Fred, our partner in our project supporting 70+ children at the orphanage Together We Love Ministry which you can learn more about here, has reached out to us with an urgent plea. Right now, the region that Masa and the children are living in is experiencing an outbreak of Ebola as well as other waterborne diseases. Due to the poor living conditions, many children have caught illnesses, and in previous years, this has been fatal. There is a direct correlation between unhygienic living and sleeping conditions and mortality rates, with a reported 1.4 million deaths per year due to unhygienic living conditions.  

Due to scarcity of resources, the children at Masa’s orphanage sleep on mattresses on the floor. During frequent torrential rainstorms, water often comes into their rooms and covers the floor, the mattresses get soaked, and so do the children, which leads to many children catching waterborne diseases, while the mattresses and bed sheets rot quickly and need to be replaced or else they become a health hazard. A solution is to have the mattresses raised off the floor on bed frames, allowing them to stay dry even when the rains wash through their sleeping areas. You can help by supporting our campaign for beds for the children.

All they need is:

• A Triple Decker Bed Frame = $320 (our goal of $8,000 covers all 25 bed-frames needed)

• A New Mattress = $25 (our goal of $1250 covers all 50 mattresses needed)

• A Set of New Bedsheets = $6 (our goal of $120 covers all 60 bedsheet sets needed)Transportation = $250 covers transportation needed

• Our total goal of $9,620 covers everything needed.

A donation as simple as the amount of a coffee can make a difference.  

This could save lives. Be a part of the solution for these children at this critical time. Every donation can make a difference.