Aggie's Baby Home

Thanks to some generous friends of Aggie’s Baby Home, it now has a beautiful security fence surrounding the perimeter! It came complete with a sturdy steel gate and brick entrance that welcomes friends with the words “WELCOME TO AGGIE BABIES HOME”! (Note: Same place-different spelling!)

Since the area surrounding the baby home isn’t exactly “safe”, a fence just isn’t enough to secure the property and its special occupants. Therefore, in addition to the fence, we hired a security guard that will help maintain the property and keep an eye on everything and everyone.

The need for babies and toddlers to be rescued is so great in Uganda, that we began giving some of them a new home before the actual physical buildings at the baby home were complete. We still have many more plans that need to be completed including a laundry facility, guest-house, outside playground area and equipment and inside flooring.
We are extremely grateful for EVERY gift donated to Aggie’s Baby Home – large and small! Since returning home from the United States, Agnes Lubega – Director of ABH, has purchased many items with the generous funds donated during several fund-raisers held in Colorado. Among some of the items purchased were: a kitchen table and eight chairs for the workers to sit on/at (Yes, they were sitting on the floor prior to this.). A large, colorrful area rug was rolled out with joy in the “toy room” (the children don’t have to sit on the cold, concrete floor any more) and two large filing cabinets were purchased to keep the children’s files neat and orderly in preparation of their eventual adoption.

Perhaps the most important announcement is that funds for both the electricity and a perimeter safety fence have also been donated and these projects will soon be underway. Imagine not having lights or a refrigerator in your home? While it is true that the baby home is located next to the New Hope Orphanage and School, it is not within it’s security fence and the nearby neighborhood is not exactly paradise.

So to all our friends, new and those who have been with us since the beginning – THANK YOU! Please remember, no gift is too small.

The baby home has 18 more empty cribs but without more monthly support ($50/mo), we will have to turn away additional babies who desperately need a safe and loving family and home. Please join us in prayer and financial support of this very special home for those dearest to the Lord’s heart.

Imagine one of our rescued babies crying in the middle of the night, afraid of the dark because they were abandoned, hungry and saw unimaginable acts in the darkness of night. Well, that’s exact the scene at Aggie’s Baby Home with several of our precious children. We are thrilled to announce that Nokero – Lights for Life (www.Nokero.com) donated 10 of The World’s Only Solar Light Bulb (TM) to Agnes Lubega after visiting the corporate headquarters located in Denver, CO.

Aggie’s Baby Home currently operates WITHOUT electricity. (It is scheduled to be installed soon, but will still be intermittent at times.) Because we currently use dangerous kerosene lanterns to care for our babies at night, we are thrilled with this dependable alternative.

Nokero lights are made from impact-resistant plastic, four solar panels, a replaceable rechargeable battery and five light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It is about the size of a standard light bulb and can withstand tough outdoor conditions. Aggie’s baby home staff will be hanging the special bulbs out-of-doors in direct sunlight each day. At night, each bulb will be brought inside and hung on the safety hook in a safe but needed location inside the baby home. The bulbs will emit light for up to four hours when fully charged. The also have on/off buttons so the battery can hold the charge until needed again in the night.

With this new affordable, solar light bulb, Nokero hopes to change the destiny of millions if not billions of people around the earth and reduce carbon dioxide (Fuel lanterns emit 190 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, equivalent to 30 million cars.)

With our new friends at Nokero, we hope to be able to soon share with the world how these bulbs have helped improve care at ABH. We will be sharing with Nokero how the bulbs have impacted ABH and the quality of care given there while Nokero may in-turn use our story, pictures, and examples in the media in the near future. Watch out CNN – we’ve got our own amazing God-sized story to tell as well! A giant thank you to Nokero.

A huge thank you to all the gracious and giving folks that attended the “Grand Opening Celebration and Baby Shower” for Aggie’s Baby Home – in Colorado Springs last night, August 31, 2010.

Last year, dozens of hand-made PRAYER blankets and other items were sent to ABH.  Once again, these compassionate friends send their love to the children of Africa:  Agnes will be going home with more beautiful hand-made scarves  as well as new and used clothing for the kids at New Hope  and ABH.  Of course much needed diapers and formula were also generously donated!

After discussing how the baby home does not currently have some basic furnishings such as a carpeting in the toy room, a kitchen table and chairs, adult chairs or lamps, the money raised at this event will be used to purchase these items.  It is our sincere desire to bless the hard working full-time (24/7) mother/workers with a place to sit and relax while caring for the children at ABH.

Thank you!

Thank you to the many new and old friends of Aggie’s Baby Home that came to our special “Baby Shower and Grand-Opening”  event held last Friday, August 27th in Centennial, Colorado.  Over 20 cans of much needed baby formula, dozens and dozens of cloth diapers, rubber pants, and new clothing were all generously donated.  Another friend brought used prescription sun and regular glasses for those in need at ABH or New Hope Orphanage as well as other various items – all of which are much appreciated.

In addition to these amazing donations, close to $1400 in one-time donations was raised.  This money will go towards our general fund that is primarily used finish the building projects and furnishing of ABH or where needed.  We also had several MUCH NEEDED new monthly pledges towards our GOAL  of $3,000 (full-house goal for 25 babies/staff).

It was another “God-thing” to witness what the Lord did that night on behalf of the least of these. Our humble thanks to everyone!

As of July of 2010- we have four babies safe and sound living at Aggie’s Baby Home!  Carol, Richard, Bruce and Suzan!  Each one with a tragic story of how they came to us, but each one created by an awesome God that has a plan for their lives.

When: Friday, August 27th 6-8 PM

Where: Home of Paula and Richard
What: Join Agnes and Paula as they show pictures and videos of the baby home, tell about the babies living at Aggie’s Baby Home and give a building project update. There will be a time of Q&A and prayer as well as a time of celebrating God’s love for the orphans.

Cost: Dinner is free but please bring a donation of baby formula (The least expensive is found at Costco – Kirkland Brand.) and/or a pack of cloth diapers. It will be specially packaged for shipping and sent to Uganda.

On Saturday, May 15th, 2010 Baby Carol became the first official child to move into the new baby orphanage called Aggie’s Baby Home located in Kampala, Uganda.  Baby Carol was abandoned by her alcoholic mother.  Since last year she has been raised by her alcoholic father.  Often neglected and left alone to fend for herself in a locked room, Carol’s health was failing. Authorities stepped in and now baby Carol is receiving the love and care she needs.  Pray for wisdom and love to reign over Aggie’s Baby Home as they care for the orphans of Uganda.

We recently sent out the request to our friends about the need to raise money for cribs at Aggie’s Baby Home.  Well, the numbers are in and thanks to the generousity of faithful friends, twenty-five cribs are being crafted now!  Thank you to the following families/organizations!

• The Fellowship of the Second Mile
• Front Range Christian School
• L. Johnson
• L. Brown
• S. Mackin
• Goodwin Family
• Bacon Family
• Shrewsbury Family
• Maestas Family
• Mendez Family
• Kemper Family

Everyone loves baby pictures and the children at Aggie’s Baby Home will be no exception!  A friend of Aggie’s BH donated a brand-new digital camera.  Praise be to God.

Now that we have a camera, we can share with you via the internet what your donations and prayers are doing in Uganda on behalf of the fatherless.  Updates, stories and PICTURES of the these babies will soon fill these pages.