COMMUNITY OUTREACH

The Catherine Project was named in honor of the little girl who crossed our paths in 2019, shortly before passing away due to untreated HIV. Her family was unaware of her illness. We tried to help, but it was too late for Catherine by the time we met her. Inspired by this sweet child, we decided to start helping other children like her in our community.

The Catherine project now helps 20 vulnerable children with HIV that live with their mothers (also with HIV) and other siblings under extremely poor conditions. Our main focus is to help them with nutrition, so they are able to take their antiretroviral medicines and grow up healthy and strong. We also monitor their medical care and assist some of them with rent and school fees. All this can be possible thanks to the Spanish non profit APROEDI www.aproedi.org/malayaka-house/

In 2022, and with the help of an American social worker that came to Malayaka House to volunteer, we started a Women´s group with the idea of giving the mothers of these children the skills to one day be independent. Our goal is that, one day, these mothers can financially provide for themselves and their children, without needing our assistance.

Thank you, Mary, to you and all the family and friends that you have behind you and that believe in what we are doing!

Continued donations are very important to the survival of this project. If you would like to donate, please click this link: https://malayakahouse.com/support-us/

The Malayaka House effect is felt by all who visit from other countries, but we also work to improve the community outside our gate. In order to impact the lives of the hundreds of children we cannot take in, we have partnered with other homes to improve their infrastructure and resources. We have assisted with solar power and rainwater collection systems, and we strive to enhance their children’s nutrition by teaching them sustainable farming methods. We also help them navigate the complicated registration and compliance process all Ugandan orphanage homes need to go through in order to remain operational.

For several years we have been running the Mobile Clinic to offer medical services to our network of children’s homes. We started medical files for each child and gave them a full physical with complete results. Measures were taken for doctors and health personnel to track sickness, disease, infection, and treatments given. We have benefited more than 500 children.

Since 2014 we are focusing in dental health. For this, we are in the process of setting up the Malayaka House Dental Clinic in one of the buildings on the Malayaka House grounds. Two Spanish dentists are running the project, and it will benefit our children as well as anyone else in our local community who wishes to use these services. We will organize dental campaigns for the children in our community and other orphanage homes.