Bricks and Beds Project

Empowering HIV/AIDS orphaned children in Africa to a self sustainable future

Only LOVE Prevails

LOVE conquers all

Being LOVED deeply by someone gives you strength, while LOVING someone deeply gives you courage

LOVE is patient. LOVE is kind. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Where there is LOVE, there is life

I have decided to stick to LOVE. Hate is too great a burden to bear

Be the reason someone feels LOVED and believes in the goodness in people

LOVE everyone, everywhere

LOVE doesn’t just sit there like a stone. it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

And in the end, the LOVE you take is equal to the LOVE you make

I LOVE you like a fish LOVES water

When the power of LOVE overcomes the LOVE of power, the world will know peace

One LOVE, one heart, one destiny

Who, being Loved, is poor?

“How do you spell LOVE” asked Piglet. “You don’t spell LOVE, you feel it”, answered Pooh.

Moving beyond a civilization of greed, to a civilization of LOVE

LOVE cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. LOVE has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

'What day is it?' 'It's today,' squeaked Piglet. 'My favorite day,' said Pooh.

Some ‘Bricks and Beds’ History – In 2013/14 LITA helped to complete dormitory style housing to accommodate 40 orphaned and vulnerable children at ACIO – Aids Concern Intergrated Organization – Canaan School, and 80 at CCDO – Community Child Development Orphanage – Favour Primary School, both villages located in Sironko District, in eastern Uganda. Endless thanks to all who have made this possible! Below are a couple photo essay that describe/show the building process.

1) a) ACIO Housing Project – Part One

b) ACIO Housing Project – Part Two

c) ACIO Housing Project – Part Three

2) a) CCDO Housing Project – Part One and Two

General Info about our Bricks and Beds’ Project – Our ‘Bricks and Beds’ Shelter Program was born out of need we saw to provide start-up support to local community initiatives seeking to provide full time care along with education opportunities for orphaned and vulnerable children, particularly during the school year.

While healthy family and home based care for orphans and vulnerable children is agreed to be the optimum, some children, particularly those without extended family known or alive, or those who are not being provided with support for or access to education, health care and in some instances, ample food, do and will require full time care, particularly during the school year.

The 1st of 14 ‘decker beds’ arrives at a child care center for orphaned and vulnerable children that also has a 4 room school on site.

Ready to contribute to the development of self directed community projects for orphaned and vulnerable children that have a clear strategy towards their own sustainable self-sufficiency, LITA helps with support for the initial acquisition of improvements required by local organizations to provide for the basic needs of the children in their care.

Traditional buildings in eastern Uganda are often made of either mud and sticks with grass or iron sheets for roofing, or hand made bricks, either sun dried or fire baked.

Baked brick structures with iron sheet roofing are the most durable, lasting for years, and the safest and most secure to live in. These are the type of dormitory style housing structures LITA provides support for the construction of.

Locally made wooden ‘decker beds’, foam mattresses, blankets and mosquito nets, also purchased in trading centers and markets close to the project, see that the children are comfortable, warm, dry and safe, while the community and local economy are also supported. All very good.

A ring of beds ready to be carried into the existing mud/stick dorms at a ACIO Child Care Center in eastern Uganda where LITA helped the community build permanent brick dorms for the children in 2013.

Inside the boy’s mud walled dorm, LITA placed durable lino down on top of the dirt floor to protect the children and their new beds, until the time and circumstances were right to build their permanent dormitory… which was completed in 2013.

Thanks very much for your interest in helping LITA provide support for orphaned and vulnerable children who require full time care during the school year, in community based projects. Click here to donate

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