Millie's Orphanage School
Bishop Moses founded Millie's Orphanage in 2010, with his wife, Pastor Betty Basemera. The school exists to contribute to the country's educational agenda and the UN educational compact program for educational access to every child. Millie's Orphanage School strives to improve the educational quality of orphans and other vulnerable children through the provision of basic education, counseling & guidance, care, and support of their well being - including housing, meals, clothing, educational supplies. There is a current enrollment of 350 total orphans and otherwise vulnerable and needy.
Vision: To be a leading orphanage educational center for needy children.
Mission: To improve the education standard of vulnerable children and to lobby for care and support for the sustainable development of such needy pupils.
Objective: *To provide educational services to vulnerable children from nursery, to primary and onto high institutions. *To eliminate street children idleness, loitering, and child trafficking by providing them with basic education. *To lobby for income-generating projects for the guardians and poor parents to take care of the needy children and orphans. *To provide entrepreneurial, spiritual, and moral development skills to guardians, orphans, and needy children in the Kasese district.
Motto: Wisdom is Precious
Milliel's Orphanage School
Millie's Orphanage School has been renting this location since 2016. They have three buildings at this site, along with a 4-stall latrine they built, an income generating chicken coop project, and a few small crops,
The owner has sold the property but has given Millie's Orphanage School and 8-month grace period to find a new home. Millie's has found a nearby property with an existing temporary 5-room structure. needs to purchase the property or vacate. Your generous gift is deeply appreciated. You can give toward the purchase of the property for Millie's here.
Millie's Teachers and Staff
In government schools, primary head teachers currently earn approximately 980,000 UGX *($288 USD) monthly, and lower primary teachers earn around 568,000 *($167USD) per month. Private schools, including Millie's Orphanage School, struggle to pay their teachers a competitive wage. Because most of Millie's students are orphans or otherwise underprivileged, the children cannot afford to pay their school fees - which is where a large part of the teachers' salaries come from.
The teachers at Millie's are dedicated, hard-working men and women who care for the children, but serving the children comes at a cost.
*You can sponsor a teacher's salary at Millie's Orphanage School in full or in part.
Chicken Coop - Income Project
Pastor Betty heads the chicken coop project, which includes chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs. The sale of the animals helps cover some of the many costs associated with teaching and caring for nearly 250 children.
The coop has taken serious hits to its sustainability - wild dogs carrying off some of the animals, flooding, lack of feed and vaccinations...
Lunch Program
In November 2016, there was fighting between the Rwenzururu Kingdom and Ugandan government forces in the town of Kasese. Millie's Orphanage School brought many orphans into their care. They continue fulfilling the call of our Heavenly Father to "Take up the cause of the fatherless..."
Limited resources make providing three meals a day very challenging.
Three meals of beans, rice, and posho costs about $1 usd/day. Often the children eat one meal a day. You can help Millie's put food in the bellies of the children.
Bishop Moses and Pastor Betty
Bishop Moses and his wife, Betty, also serve the wider Kasese community, including supporting the work of his friend, Lt. Agustus Tumwebaze, in the AIDS village in Kyanjuki. Whenever possible, they share provisions, encouragement, and the love of Jesus with many in remote villages in the foothills of the Rwenzori mountains - women and children, elderly, disabled, displaced, outcasts...They live their lives to serve in the name of their Lord.
Income Generating Projects
Skill-building classes for women and teens in the community helps the ladies and youth increase their incomes. income-generating projects for the guardians and poor parents to take care of the needy children and orphans. *To provide entrepreneurial, spiritual, and moral development skills to guardians, orphans, and needy children in the Kasese district.
Millie's Orphanage School
You can support the work of Millie's with a gift of any amount.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless: uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. (Ps. 82:3)