Brick on Brick
Replacing high-risk mud shelters with durable, permanent, red-clay brick homes.
🏠 House #1 – Complete
The first widow’s home is finished. Concrete floors, solid metal security doors, and secure walls. A permanent home where a mud shelter once stood.
The Story
For years, widows in Kagoma, Uganda, fell asleep fearing that the next heavy tropical rain would wash their mud shelters away. Vulnerable. Exposed. Waiting.
Then, just 60 days ago, we started building.
We launched Brick on Brick this past March with a single mission: replace high-risk mud shelters with durable, permanent, red-clay brick homes.
House #1 is complete. Concrete floors poured. Solid metal security doors and windows installed. All for an all-in cost of $2,700, using local materials and hiring local craftsmen to pour strength back into the Ugandan economy.
🔨 House #2 – Progress
The steel door is installed, walls are up, and we are now raising funds to finish the floors, plaster, and remaining fixtures.
Where We Are Now
✅ House #1: Completed – keys ready to hand over.
✅ House #2: Steel door installed, roof on, walls complete.
🔄 Currently Raising Funds For: Concrete floors, plastering, and remaining fixtures for House #2.
🔜 Next Up: Breaking ground on House #3 as soon as House #2 is funded.
Our skilled Ugandan construction crew – ready to build.
The Model (Radical Transparency)
💧 Zero Overhead
$0 leadership and administrative salary. Every single dollar belongs in the dirt, buying bricks, timber, cement, and metal security fixtures.
📊 Candid Platinum Verified
Enterprise-grade accounting, metrics, and data tracking – even with zero leadership payroll.
🌍 Local Economic Loop
100% local labor and local materials. We pump donor capital directly back into the Kagoma economy.
⚡ Agile Execution
House #1 was completed in 45 days. Traditional systems often take longer just to clear paperwork.
How You Can Help
✍️ Strategic Grant Writer Partner
We are actively vetting a results-oriented grant writer. Not just a gig worker – but a partner who believes in this model of radical transparency and zero leadership overhead. Help us translate this ‘mud-to-metal’ miracle into a funded 10-house pipeline.
🧱 Givers & Catalyst Funders
Every $2,700 delivers a permanent, concrete-and-brick asset – not just charity. It literally changes a family’s generational trajectory.
Current bottleneck: House #2 needs funding to pour floors, plaster walls, and complete fixtures. Once cleared, our crew can instantly break ground on House #3.
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The Long-Term Vision
We have a 17-year relationship with a local pastor on the ground who has spent nearly two decades living alongside, serving, and building trust with these exact widows.
Before Brick on Brick, his previous organizational framework could only find funding to build 1 house per year. We stepped in to provide a high-velocity capital engine to a community network that was already mature, vetted, and deeply rooted.
We don’t build relationships for donor optics. The relationship infrastructure came first – our bricks are just finally catching up to the need.