How one amazing woman saved 450 babies and
wants to do more
SANTA YNEZ,
Calif., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Together
with Faith of a Child Foundation, Damali Mirembe, the director
of the Sonrise Baby Home, recently started construction on a
new hospital to serve the Kayunga District of Uganda. The new hospital will include a
maternity ward, a pediatric ward, a fully equipped laboratory,
emergency care and several in-patient beds.
In an online video, Damali shared her vision for
the hospital and explained why she is starting this ambitious
project.
In 2009, Damali was a young university graduate
in Uganda. As an orphan, she had
been raised by American Christian missionaries and despite great
opportunities in the business world, she chose to begin taking in
orphaned babies. Immediately, Damali was overwhelmed with the
number of abandoned and malnourished babies in Uganda. She grew her ministry and soon had 36
babies in a small two-bedroom house.
More recently, Damali has grown the Sonrise Baby
Home to include six large clean buildings, and a farm to feed the
babies and her staff. They have saved more than 450 babies from
severe malnutrition, typhoid, malaria, and other deadly diseases.
Together with the "aunties" in the Baby Home, Damali heals the
babies with a combination of love, good nutrition, medical
interventions, as well as prayer. More than 85% of the children are
reunited with family members after reaching a stable health
condition.
One case in point is Gabi, a baby that was
brought to the Sonrise Baby Home in 2019 after she was abandoned,
naked in a bush. She was so sick that she was unable to cry aloud.
But after four months, Gabi was a chubby and healthy baby. Today,
she is starting school and she loves to chase a soccer ball (a
football in Uganda).
During COVID, all transportation was closed down
in Uganda. Damali heard stories
about mothers that could not find any transportation to hospitals,
which often can be more than 100 km away. Some poor mothers were
forced to try to walk for help, collapsing and dying on the way.
Damali determined that she must build a new hospital in the rural
Kayunga District, to offer better maternity care.
"There were so many babies abandoned because
their mothers died during childbirth, and I felt called by God to
work on the cause of this problem: the poor healthcare for women in
Uganda" commented Damali Mirembe. "We have started this
important project so that nobody needs to build another orphanage
to care for motherless babies."
To raise funds for the hospital project, Sonrise
Baby Home is teaming up with Faith of a Child Foundation in
the United States. Information
about the hospital project can be found at
www.faithofachildfoundation.org/hospital-project. The concrete
floor and foundation for the hospital has just been completed, and
Faith is working to raise $150,000 to
build the walls and the 2nd story.
Faith of a Child Foundation will be matching all
donations made to the Hospital Project, so that every dollar
donated will result in two dollars of
concrete and labor in Uganda.
Contact Mobile Experts for more details.
Contact:
Joe Madden
Faith of a Child Foundation
376919@email4pr.com
+1 (408) 335-4042
www.faithofachildfoundation.org
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SOURCE Faith of a Child Foundation