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The Redeemer Children's & Moyo Babies Home
Moyo District, Uganda
In partnership with the International Refugee Trust
The Sacred Heart Sisters, an African order, established the Redeemer Children's Home in 1998. Over 50 refugee orphaned children aged between 6 and 18 live at the home, and are cared for with devotion by the Sisters.
In June 2003 the home, then based in the town of Adjumani, was attacked by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army and 16 of the children were abducted. The Sisters had to act swiftly to take the remaining children to relative safety – they could not stay where they were for fear the rebels would return for them.
Plans were drawn up for a new home, to be based in the much safer town of Moyo, approximately 40 miles to the West and on the other side of the river Nile. Subsequently land was acquired for the new home and over the course of the next three years; IRT successfully raised the funds to ensure the home was completed.
The IRT are now supporting the Sisters to establish income-generating projects so that the home can become increasingly self-sufficient.They are also engaged in dialogue with the local community, members of parliament and district officials to ensure that they play their role in the home's management and sustainability.
Moyo Babies Home
Without Moyo Babies Home abandoned and orphaned refugee babies would die. It is run by the Sacred Heart Sisters who, with their care assistants, provide a loving environment, food and basic medical care. Some of the babies are very ill when they arrive at the home, but with care and nourishment most are nursed back to health.It is the only home of its kind for many miles because looking after babies is hugely labour-intensive and therefore expensive.
IRT ensures that the home has enough money to pay for food, clothing, nursery schooling and wages of the care assistants. The living quarters of the care assistants are in a very bad state of repair and that IRT is currently fundraising in order that the accommodation can be rebuilt.
The Sisters try to find homes for the babies, but if they cannot the children move on to the Redeemer Children’s Home when they are 6 years old.
International Refugee Trust
The International Refugee Trust (IRT) is a UK registered charity which focuses generally on small, longer term projects that address the most urgent needs of refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) all over the world.
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