Established in 2013 as a Community Based Organization, Grace Villa is situated on the serene Makanga Hill in Kabale, a district in Uganda famously dubbed "The Switzerland of Africa”. Surrounded by rose bushes, green terraced hills and vegetable gardens, Grace Villa is a lovely, old fashioned, sturdy home with a brick and mortar finish. And it is within this home that Grace Villa’s founder; Ruth Kendegye Ndyabahika, resides with 24 girls between the ages of 3 and 21. The rest of the 200 plus girls are under community and kinship care with extended family members and a close eye is kept on them.
Grace Villa is named after Rev. Canon. Grace Nyonyozi Ndyabahika, who is fondly referred to by the girls as Mama Ruth. It’s mission is to provide a home and sanctuary for orphans and vulnerable girls that fully meets their health, social, academic, spiritual and psychological needs.
Over 200 girls receive school fees, health care, nutritious food, social and psychological care from Grace Villa. Grace Villa also offers a number of programs, all of which are necessary to prepare and empower the young ladies to realize their full potential as responsible and caring citizens, long after they leave Grace Villa. These amazing programs include:
Grace Villa Learning Adventures designed to inspire and equip young ladies with skills like Photography, Baking, Etiquette, Tailoring, Music, Computing and IT.
Grace Villa Wa-Teeka Free Lunch Program which feeds 50 of the most needy school going children in the community with a free lunch every school day
Grace Villa Soccer Club an all girls’ soccer team that has won the Kabale District Youth Football Championship cup 3 times so far, uses sports as a vehicle to dispel society’s biases against females and provides a safe and nurturing environment for the girls to exercise their bodies and their minds.
Grace Villa Girls’ Choir which has so far recorded one music album and can be seen performing live every Sunday afternoon at Kabale’s historical, premier hotel: White Horse Inn.
Kikazi tailoring and mat making line. Currently Grace Villa’s most successful income generating project, through which the girls make beautiful and unique pieces with a touch of African kitenge fabric.
Kwanzi, another one of Grace Villa’s income generating projects is a lovely little oasis situated in the center of the bustling town of Kabale. Kwanzi boasts a café, a cultural museum, a book exchange, accommodation and a gift shop that is an outlet for all the things that the Grace Villa girls make. This is also where the Grace Villa office is located.
The transformations that we witness at Grace Villa are amazing. Feeling wanted, loved and valued is the basis for a healthy life. Such feelings are normally rooted in family relationships, healthy structure and nurturing...and the confidence in knowing you will be loved no matter what. This is where Grace Villa steps in. The first course of intervention at Grace Villa is to empower and enable extended families to care for the orphaned girls in their own home settings.
It is only those children that we completely fail to settle with safe, extended family that are given a home at Grace Villa. They all have a tough story to process through. Our job is to nurture them towards the realization that their horrific pasts do not define them, and that they are now safely home.
What began as a family response to an urgent need has grown into one of the strongest girl child interventions in Kigezi, South Western Uganda. Grace Villa exists to change a desperate narrative. And we are achieving all of this together! So matter where you’re coming from or what stage of life you’re in, we believe that everyone is called to make a difference. So if you would like to join hands with us today to make a difference in this special way, we would love to hear from you! Give us a call, send us an email, follow us on social media and visit our website for more information on all the wonderful things Grace Villa is about.
Every contribution you make, whatever the amount, will go towards transforming a vulnerable child’s life. We thank you for caring and God richly bless you.
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