We celebrated a wonderful Christmas and New Year thanks to all of our generous friends.  We are thankful for the children who have been healed and remember two dear ones who passed from our arms to Jesus.  The children share what they are thankful for...to read more CLICK HERE.

In addition to regular operating expenses, we are still in need of a second van for our growing number and we hope to begin the process of land acquisition for future growth. CLICK HERE TO DONATE

Our Own Home is a refuge for orphans living with AIDS. Believing that every life is priceless, we offer these special children treasures that every child should be able to take for granted: security, dignity, and love. Shouldn’t every child have the freedom to drift off to sleep at night knowing where their next meal is coming from…knowing someone will always be there for them…knowing they are safe?

Because of the stigma surrounding the disease, many of these children are abandoned to the streets. Others simply scrape by under caregivers who are too scared to touch them. So they survive; unwanted, unloved, unseen.  Oh, but they are seen. They are wanted. They are loved. God is the Father to the fatherless, and He cares about these little ones. He wants them to have their own home.  

A house with four bedrooms sits on an acre of land in    Jinja. 

Happy cries of, “TAGEE!” fill the house and yard as the whole family engages in a rowdy game of tag!  From tag to the swings we go, from the swings to a football (soccer) game; we all sleep like babies! Tag has become a daily ritual, beginning with a soft chant of, “Tagee, tagee, tagee…” by some mischievous instigator, and finishing with a line-up at the water cooler! Another every-day occurrence is the children lining up along the porch railing as a Bible story is read.

I want to tell you a story of just one of the children that now has a home Aisha’s parent's died of AIDS when she was only an infant. Her care fell to her older sister, a young teenager at the time. The sister married a man who wanted nothing to do with Aisha. We found that he was forcing Aisha to work, failing to medicate or even feed her. Without the care she so desperately needed, Aisha’s health was failing. I wish you could have seen her face when we gave her a bath, a new red dress, and a baby doll! The girl who entered the home silent and timid now plays happily, confidently approaches her “aunties and uncles” for tight hugs, and says she never wants to go back to the place she was before! Can’t blame her for that! To think of a priceless treasure like a little girl being treated as worthless is heartbreaking! Thank God for providing a loving home for His precious child! Please continue praying for Aisha as this 10-year-old girl is attending school for the first time!

We've recently added a second home so we can help more and more of these children.  We also hope to open "our own school" so they can escape the ostracism they experience in the private school they attend now.

Open the photo gallery to meet more of our family.  Read the newsletters for more stories about precious children.  Learn about volunteer opportunities.  And, if you are so moved, donate to the continuing operations and new projects of Our Own Home.  Thank you for visiting and may God Bless You!                           

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