Upend♥ Children's Centre
born with a purpose

Our dream, the new house!

For the first few years we have rented a house and when we started, over 3 years ago in january 2007 the house was big enough. Now their are over 25 children living in UCC and with only 3 bedrooms the house is getting to small. So we decided to build a new house, a bigger and better house, which can accomodate all children, looking out for their health and wellbeing. We have already purchased a plot of land on which we are going to build a new house in the near future. Last February we already levelled the grounds, this summer we have put the layer of cement, for the floor and most of the walls are up. There is electricity anmd he plumbing is almost finished. Than in February 2010 we will completely finish it!

22/09/09

The new house means a lot more space, so also more children we can take in in at Upendo Children's Centre. So more children who will have a safe and loving home, with brothers and sisters and sweet housemothers! More space also means more room to play, better facilities, less dangers with infections or diseases when children get ill and also more privacy for the older children. Furthermore a place and facilities for the youngest, abandonned and orphaned babies from 0 till 6 months.

August 2009

Guus Habets, a Dutch doctor and two architects from the INEX Architecten in Maastricht (the Netherlands) , Willy Crousen, a building expert and a whole team of other dedicated constructors and technical people like Vincent, Con, Sjef, Nick and Pieter are helping us realize our dream. Jackson, the manager and Bernard draw the house they wanted and we took this to INEX Architecten in Maastricht. Guus, Tessa and the two architect sat down and put down their plans, according to Jackson's plan. The architects draw a beautifull design of the new house. In February 2009 Guus Willy and Tessa went to Kenya to see which materials are already in Kenya and which have to be brought from the Netherlands. In August 2009 we have started with a part of the whole team of Dutch workers in coorparation with Kenyan wokers and started the contruction!

at INEX architects Maastricht         

We have this dream but hopefully you can help us realize it! Our dream will cost a lot of money! The whole project will cost approximately 50.000 euros, a lot of money. Because it's technically impossible to built the house at once we will do this in two parts. Besides he technical part is it also very difficult with funding the new contruction, in these times with resession it's difficult to gain enough funding.

So we need all the help we can get, also your help!!!!! If you want to help you can contribute by donating money. You can download the flyer below, fill it in and send it to us. You can also contribute to our account which is given below. Thanks!

February 2009

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