Originally the vocational institute was engaged with a tailoring practice that provided to help vulnerable women and girls with skills to improve their conditions of living. Most women were either widowed, single, living with HIV, could not afford a livelihood, pay school fees for their children, or afford medical care. Most teenage girls at Mary's House of Hope were of proper age to attend school, but did not have school fees.
When brought to this facility, the care takers would bathe, clean, feed, counsel, shelter, and teach them skills in crafts including basket making, crocheting, mat-making and others. The tailoring department was moved to this location because its purpose was to impart skills, and diversify the number of skills which included tailoring, handcrafts, carpentry, hair salon skills, building, construction, and catering among others.
Most of these individuals just needed to be loved and guided. Today they are living happily in society.
With increase in population and high levels of poverty in the area, the need for vocational studies is increasingly on demand, The vocational school is in dire need of improved structures:
The kitchen is presently in a sorry state. A modernized kitchen well equipped with catering machinery is required to serve proper meals to the students and to present a good training ground for catering students.
A building and construction workshop is lacking
Well-planned lavatories for both staff and students is lacking
There is no proper showroom to showcase the products made from this institute
There is no security post or guard house to monitor persons entering and leaving the facility
Water collection points are needed including high liter capacity tanks and apparatus for water collection
A dinning space and hall for occasions which will include graduations
American Friends of the Father Bash Foundation, Inc. is authorized by Father John Baptist Bashobora to mobilize funds on behalf of his foundation located in Mbarara, Uganda, East Africa and is not associated with any other groups in the USA.
We are a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, taking no salaries. All donations are tax-deductible. Federal ID 81-3728884 Official Address: American Friends of the Father Bash Foundation, Inc. 6525 Pine Meadows Drive - Spring Hill, FL 34606