Haydom-Friends e.V.

 Dear " House of Hope Heroes ",

It´s been almost a year already since contracts and papers for the land has been signed and we are running a bit behind bringing you the latest updates.

First of all we want to bring you our most warm hearted thanks and best wished for the new year. Without you we would not have made all this progress possible. Your donations and your motivational words keep us going. Thanks so much.

Since our last upate the Haydom team and our Haydom-Friends team has put heads together to come across with a good plan and design for the future house for our kids with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Infact we have found help from a Norwegian architecual team that already is working together with a team of local arechitects to build a new Haydom Hospital. So we had been able to jump on top on that moving train, as we say in German, and they are all very motivated to extend their local work to help us build the House of Hope.

Infact during all those planning and brainstorming sessions we came up with the final idea to not only invest and plan to build one single building but to create a communal space of several living bungalows for the parents and their babies to be a bit more private and we have added a bigger communal house with lots of common space for education, meetings, space for daily physiotherapy, space for little craft projects of the mothers and meeting space for the parent leaders. All the buildings are planned to be build with local material and are all connected by ramps and in a wheelchairacessible way. 

The buildings are facing to an inside more private circle with seating opportunities in the shade of a big tree or under the extended roof of the buildings. There is an outdoor kitchen and a small playground on the inside area for the spina kids.

All this is completed by a big garden in the outside ring area together with a big recreational place for the kids, a concrete area  for wheelchair basketball and skating for both wheelchairkids as well as the kids from the village.

Now that all the planning process is finished it is time for the architectures and their team to get their first salary and we have to pay the first part for Pre-Planning and all the permits in order to get permission to build.

All the documents are handed in to the official offices and we are waiting for approval. As soon as we are getting the permit and our drawings stamped we will start with part two, meaning putting the concrete foundation for all of the buildings. Than to continue with the first big communal building, hoping to get this one finished till the end of May.

Glad to have you with us on this exciting journey.

More news coming up soon,

Stay excited with us and help us more along the way. We are happy to welcome you to Haydom wether in May or October and get to know our families and team there and besides an incredible country to explore.

Yours Theresa.