Dan's Blog: 2023 - Mukono, Uganda

Dear friends, thank you for taking time to opening up this blog. Welcome to any new viewers and welcome back for those who have been following my blog for a while. Below, I share a bit about the project work in Mukono province, Uganda.

During our visit for ROTOM (Reach one Touch One Ministries), we visited (3) sites for them, a senior citizen center, Primary/Secondary school site, and an outreach village. EMI is helping ROTOM design facilities to empower older persons and their dependents to attain health and well-being through increasing accessibility of water, food, education, healthcare, shelter, and other necessities.

Figure 1: Existing Senior center is running well as part of ROTOM, site 1.
Everyone is waiting for funding for the hospice addition to be built in the future.

Figure 2: Existing (2) primary school buildings on site 2 in Magogo.

Figure 3: EMI uses adjacency diagrams to not only plan building locations, but options for circulation, security and infrastructure.

Figure 4: Proposed site of the primary/secondary school as ROTOM Site 2. The secondary school side is undeveloped currently and is in need of an EMI master-planning for the whole site

Figure 5: Some of the existing kitchen and community buildings on the primary school side of the site 2.

In all (3) sites, it is care for seniors, children and the community which motivates ROTOM to develop these sites as a shared resource center to share the love of Christ to the community.

Figure 6: Outreach center for the community in Nakisunga Village, site 3.

This site 3 will be a prototype village outreach center to include a clinic, dispensary, space for food and income insecurity care, and care for the elderly in the community.

And as will all our projects, it takes 3-4 months after getting back to the office to finally complete the design work at hand.