Revive-a-Life Orphanage, Uganda, is supported by Huggabears, Inc. Huggabears is a charitable non-profit that sends 99% of your donation to the designated charity (less about 1% for wiring fees). The orphanage provides for about 800 orphans and needs food, medicine, bathrooms, treated water, Bibles, goats, chickens, school supplies, beds, mattresses, pay for the staff, a clinic and nurse, and many other things.

1. Revive-a-Life Orphanage
Uganda
AIDS has taken many lives in Uganda.
This orphanage currently supports
about 800 orphans, many of whom had
both parents killed by AIDS.

2. Pastor James
He is an officer and
a chaplain in the
Ugandan Army,
leads a local church
and heads the
orphanage. He
talked at our
church’s men’s
breakfast a couple
of years ago while
in the USA for
training with the
U.S. military.

3. Sleeping
During his talk,
Pastor James
related that the
orphanage is
very poor, is
overcrowded
and that orphans
typically sleep 3
& 4 to a bed. He
was praying for
more beds.

4. Mattresses
He also
described how
most of the
mattresses were
now just pieces
of old
mattresses. He
was praying for
new mattresses.

5. This summer the orphanage got 100
new beds and mattresses. They need
more.

6. Girls’ dormitory with new bedding.
The boys’ dorms need them now.
The mosquito nets are new too.
Malaria is a big concern.

7. Lots of Needs for the Basics
• We started to communicate this spring by email. During the course of e-mailing, I learned
the orphanage provided for only the very
basics of life.
• There was no running water, only a 6-stall
outhouse for 800 and no electricity. The
orphans pumped and hauled water from a
well, and washed behind the dormitories.
• The manual hand pump had recently broke,
and the orphans had to resort to hauling
water from a nearby swamp/ditch.

8. Hauling water

9. A new electric pump was
purchased and installed

10. Pump house constructed to
prevent theft of the pump

11. Water tanks installed to provide
running water

12. Electricity
The orphanage was
connected to the
power grid. This
powered the water
pump, provided
lighting at night for
much needed
security and gave
them a way to cook
without having to
use wood-fueled
fires.

13. Wiring and lights being installed

14. Desks
The orphans had to
sit on the floor
during school. It
was a hard
environment in
which to learn.
New desks were
purchased which
greatly improved
the learning
environment.

15. Original
School House
This is a photo of
much of the staff
in front of the
original school
house. It was
primitive and
open to the
elements.
Note the thatch
roof.

16. Collapse
This building
collapsed
several years
ago during a
storm and
many children
were hurt.

17. A New School
House
The collapsed school
house was replaced by
this new, temporary
school house.
Unfortunately, it was
built with undersized
materials, and it also
collapsed, earlier this
year during a storm.
No children were injured
this time.

18. That school house during construction
and after its collapse

19. A new school
house
Debris from the
collapsed school house
was removed and a new
school house began to be
built.
The new school house
was built much stronger.
Construction of a new
school house diverted
much funding and
delayed much needed
improvements.

20. New school house during construction
and upon its completion

21. The other
school house
The construction of
this school house, to
relieve crowding, was
largely completed
while the temporary
school house was still
standing.
Upon completion of
the newest school
house, this school
house was completed
with the addition of
windows and doors.

22. Sewage
system
The plan is to
replace the 6-stall
outhouse with
toilets. The hope is
that each dorm
and school house
will have its own
toilet facility.
Shower rooms are
planned for each of
the 3 dorms.

23. The first toilet facility was built
between the new school house and
one of the boys’ dorms.

24. Staff house
Currently, the staff
sleep in the dorms.
This is against the law,
and provides little
privacy. The staff has
also endured many
months with no pay.
Work was recently
begun on a house for
the staff.

25. Meal time
The younger
children are lined
up for a meal.
Meals mostly
consist of rice.
Meat is served only
at the Christmas
meal and the meal
of thanksgiving
which is served on
New Year’s Day.

26. Kitchen
The kitchen is the
small building in the
middle.
The girls’ dorm and
water tanks are to the
left. The younger boys’
dorm is to the right.
It is hoped the kitchen
can be enlarged and
better equipped.

27. Flags
The orphanage staff is
very appreciative, and
thankful to God, for
what’s been donated
from America and
have elected to fly the
American flag
alongside the
Ugandan flag.
They recently received
a Christian flag which
they are also flying
now.

28. Future needs
• More toilets and septic
systems
• Shower rooms added to
each dorm
• More beds and
mattresses
• More desks
• School supplies
• A well-stocked clinic
with a nurse on staff
• Consistent pay for staff
• A new kitchen
• Goats and chickens for
meats, milk and eggs
• Shelters for the goats
and chickens
• More land for growing
vegetables
• Food
• Bibles

29. Please donate
• These recent improvements have cost about
$70,000. Many things in Uganda are relatively
inexpensive.
• A nurse on staff would cost only $200 a month.
• Shipping costs are high. Monetary donations help
the most.
• Huggabears, Inc. is a non-profit which sends
100% of donations to the designated organization
(less the wiring fees - a few dollars per $1,000).

30. Give us this day our daily bread
• As our pastor recently reminded us, the Lord’s
Prayer doesn’t say give us “filet mignon and
cheesecake.”
• Many of us have been blessed with “filet mignon
and cheesecake.”
• Consider foregoing some of your “filet mignon
and cheesecake” to help provide these orphans
with their “daily bread.”
• …caring for orphans and widows… James 1:27

31. Huggabears, Inc.
P.O. Box 54625
Phoenix, AZ 85078
602-663-2557
Make checks payable to “HCP, Inc.”
Designate “Uganda Orphanage” in the
memo space on check