Support Our Project
Help us build a place that does not exist yet
Harmony is a plan with a site, a service model, and a founder behind it. What it does not yet have is the funding to be designed, approved, and built. This page explains exactly what support would do and the ways you can offer it.
The case for support
Why financial support is needed now
Most appeals ask you to help sustain something that already runs. This one is different, and it is worth being direct about why: Harmony has not been built. There is no facility, no staff payroll, and no residents. Support at this stage does not improve a service — it determines whether the service comes to exist at all.
A senior care facility cannot be started small and improvised. Before the first resident can be admitted, the building must be designed by professionals, approved by the authorities, constructed to a standard suitable for frail people, equipped for clinical care, and staffed by qualified people who must be recruited and trained. Licensing comes before opening, not after. Each of those steps has to be paid for in advance of any income.
That is the gap the foundation is asking supporters to help close. Contributions now move the project from a plan on paper into design, approvals, and construction — and every step completed makes the next easier to fund, because it replaces intention with something verifiable.
What support would make possible
Funding raised at this stage is intended for the work that must happen before Harmony can open. We publish the categories of work rather than amounts, because costs will be set by professional design and tender rather than by estimate.
- Professional architectural, engineering, and accessibility design
- Planning, building, environmental, and health-licensing processes
- Site preparation and groundworks
- Construction of the residential wings
- Construction of clinical, therapy, and support areas
- Fitting out kitchen, laundry, mortuary, and service facilities
- Clinical, therapy, and residential equipment
- Recruitment and training of nursing, care, and therapy staff
- Landscaping of accessible gardens, courtyards, and pathways
The nonprofit model
How giving reaches those who cannot pay
Harmony is planned as a nonprofit that earns part of its own keep. The intention is that fees from residents who can afford to pay cover operating costs, and that any surplus is reinvested into the foundation's mission rather than distributed. That is what makes subsidised places possible.
Subsidised places are intended for
- Vulnerable older adults with no means to pay
- Low-income families caring for an elderly relative
- Older people without adequate family support
- People living with disabilities
- Patients needing palliative care who cannot afford it
Intended beneficiaries
Who this is intended to serve
The people Harmony is being built for, and who stand to gain if it is completed.
Older people needing daily care
Those who can no longer manage safely alone and need reliable help with the ordinary business of a day, in a place designed around them.
People living with dementia
Older adults whose safety now depends on a secure, calm environment and staff specifically trained in dementia care.
Those recovering from illness or injury
Older people needing rehabilitation after a stroke, fracture, surgery, or long illness in order to regain movement and independence.
People with advanced illness
Those who need comfort, pain relief, and dignity at the end of life, with their families close by rather than kept at a distance.
Families and caregivers
Relatives currently carrying care they are not trained or equipped for, often alongside work and children of their own.
Local care workers
People who would be employed and trained at Harmony — nursing, caregiving, therapy, catering, and facilities roles.
Ways to support the foundation
Five ways to help, depending on who you are
Each route below leads to a conversation, not a payment page. Tell us what you have in mind and the founder will respond directly.
Individual donor support
Individual supporters give this project its foundation. Contributions of any size move the work forward, and we are equally glad of supporters who give their time, expertise, or introductions rather than money.
Ways this can work
- One-off contributions toward design, approvals, and construction
- Regular giving that lets the foundation plan ahead with confidence
- Professional expertise offered pro bono — legal, design, clinical, financial
- Introductions to people and organisations able to help at scale
- Advocacy: telling people in a position to support the project about it
Corporate sponsorship
For companies, Harmony offers something unusually tangible: a defined, physical part of a facility that will serve older people for decades. We are happy to scope a sponsorship around what your organisation actually wants to contribute.
Ways this can work
- Sponsorship of a specific element — a wing, the therapy suite, the dining room, the gardens
- In-kind contribution of construction materials, equipment, or furnishings
- Professional services contributed by your team — design, engineering, legal, IT, logistics
- Employee engagement, volunteering, and matched giving programmes
- Recognition at the facility and in project communications, agreed in advance with you
NGO and institutional partnership
We are seeking partners whose contribution is expertise and delivery capacity as much as funding — organisations working in ageing, health, social protection, or community development.
Ways this can work
- Programme funding or co-financing of defined phases
- Technical expertise in ageing, dementia, palliative, or rehabilitative care
- Joint design of community outreach and home care programmes
- Staff training, curriculum development, and professional supervision
- Monitoring, evaluation, and governance support
- Research collaboration and documentation of the model
Healthcare partnership
Harmony is intended to work alongside the existing health system rather than apart from it. Hospitals, clinics, and professional bodies can help shape the clinical side of the facility from the start.
Ways this can work
- Clinical advisory input into the design of care services and facilities
- Referral pathways for older patients needing care after discharge
- Visiting physician, specialist, and consultant arrangements
- Clinical training, mentorship, and supervision for Harmony staff
- Shared protocols for palliative care, dementia, and chronic disease management
- Support in establishing clinical governance and quality standards
Government and institutional collaboration
The foundation seeks to work transparently with the public institutions responsible for health, social protection, and local development in Kigali, and to align the project with national priorities for older people.
Ways this can work
- Alignment with national policy and planning for older people's care
- Guidance through licensing, inspection, and regulatory requirements
- Coordination with district and sector authorities in Gasabo and Ndera
- Collaboration with community health structures and social protection services
- Support in establishing care standards for the sector
Donation interest
Become a Supporter
Version 1 of this website does not take payments. We would rather speak with you first: tell us how you would like to help, and the founder will come back to you directly with the information you need — including the detailed project materials, the current state of the plan, and the honest answer to anything you want to ask before committing.
Contact the foundation
Reach us directly — the founder answers supporter enquiries personally.
Proposed location
Ndera Sector, Gasabo District, Kigali, Rwanda
The site proposed for the future facility — there is no facility to visit yet
Transparency