WHO WE ARE
Home for Healing Hearts is a Christian, faith-based 501-C3 that was created to give support and be a refuge for those in desperate situations. What started as a couple's desire to help a handful of orphans in Jinga, Uganda, has grown into a ministry team that cares for upwards of fifity+ children daily. Today, Home for Healing Hearts continues to reach out into the community providing resources from basic necessities and food to medical care and education.
MISSION.
MISSION STATEMENT:
To honor Christ by raising awareness and educating the public to the challenges of abandonment of people in other parts of the world while providing support as well as building and improving infrastructure.
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When action meets compassion, lives change.
Home for Healing Hearts is partnered with a Ugandan based ministry focused on caring for children and individuals who cannot care for themselves due to abandonment, extreme poverty, or illness. The large majority of our efforts are currently focused on the children's daily care.
Home for Healing Hearts is also heavily invested in a local leper community near Jinja. We frequently provide much needed food and medical treatment for them as these individuals are seen as the outcasts of society and are forced to live in a segregated area away from the town.
THE STORY.
Jake & Ashli Kelly
Founders
2014
Ashli was a newly married military spouse who was looking to grow closer to God while her husband Jake was on his first deployment. She started reading about orphans in Jinja Uganda and started to feel a calling. Ashli reached out to an old friend that had connections in Africa. Very quickly she learned of the needs of Pastor Andrew who was caring for 20+ orphans that were on the verge of eviction. Without hesitation she began fundraising.
2015
Ashli’s first fundraising efforts put her photography talents to use by offering family photo’s in exchange for a donation to the mission of caring for the kids. When the demand for photo’s fell off, she developed a “sponsorship program” offering people the opportunity to sponsor a specific child on a regular basis. A website was created and with the help of 15 regular contributors she was able to provide support on a consistent basis.
2016
Ashli and Jake started feeling a burden to do more this year as the needs of the children continued to grow. God’s timing allowed Jake and Ashli to make their first trip to Uganda and meet the very children they had been helping.
2017
As a result of the trip to Uganda the financial sponsors started growing as close friends and family followed Jake and Ashli’s story of visiting Uganda and helping the children in need. This brought about the ability to open a small medical clinic and stock it with necessities allowing a local doctor to provide care in his spare time.
2018
The orphanage started seeing exponential growth as word in the local community spread of American funding to support these abandon children. Through sponsor donations in addition to daily needs, they sent many children to school. As a result of a tragedy, the need for a van to transport the children to school was discovered. The money to purchase a van was soon raised to safely deliver the kids to and from school.
2019/20
This season was about sustaining, during a very busy time in Ashli and Jake’s lives. The blessing of their regular contributors allowed them to keep food on the table, school fees and periodically new clothes.
2021
Jake began to feel a large calling to build an orphanage to house all the children under one roof. He really wanted do more for the children than just sustain them he wanted to help them thrive. Jake posted about the calling he and Ashli were having in hopes that others wanted to join them. At just that time another couple had started feeling led to get involved in giving back. Through connections, resources and finances this couple joined with Jake and Ashli to get started as a real 501-c3. As with Jake and Ashli, the couple's hearts were invested from the very first moment they learned about the children and thus “Home for Healing Hearts” was created.
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PARTNER.
A long time ago, an orphaned and ragged street kid in Uganda by the name of Mwagale
Andrew Rich gave his life to Jesus. As he entered into his young adult years, he decided
to become a minister of the gospel. Shortly after, he and his wife began caring for orphans
in their home. He couldn’t help but reach out to offer food and shelter, knowing the struggles of that life first hand. Today, Pastor Andrew and his wife, Joy, are the foundation for the orphanage in Uganda. They pour into the lives of each child daily, ensuring they are well cared for and showing them they are loved, valued, and wanted.