Every home we build here helps build another, half a world away.
May Construction builds custom homes across Nashville and Middle Tennessee. As a Homes 4 Homes business partner, we also help build brick homes for families in Northern Uganda. 31 so far, and we are not done.
- homes built to date & counting
- 31
- builds one complete home
- $4,000
- of donations fund construction
- 100%
Northern Uganda · a Homes 4 Homes communityWhen the rains come, a mud hut is not a home.
In one sub-county of Northern Uganda, 1,600 families live in mud huts with dirt floors and leaking roofs. In the rainy season, water pours through, children sleep in the mud, and sickness spreads quickly.
A safe brick home changes that story in a matter of days. Homes 4 Homes has been building them since 2015, and nearly 10,000 people are ready and waiting for safe housing over the next three years.
The next generation · Northern UgandaLocal hands, local brick, a standard we recognize.
Every home is built by local crews, from locally made brick, under local leadership on the ground. As builders, we hold our partners to the same test we hold ourselves: does the work hold up. These homes do, on time and on budget, and every one of them meets four commitments.
- Local leadership
- Local labor
- Local materials
Metal roof
A solid roof ends the leaks that come with every rainy season.
Strong walls
Brick and concrete, built to stand for generations.
Locking doors & windows
Families sleep, and work, in peace.
Concrete floor
A clean, dry foundation for a healthy home.
$4,000 · one complete home“If you hadn’t given, my door would still be a curtain.”
Margaret was abducted by a rebel army in Northern Uganda as a young girl. She survived years of captivity and violence, lost her arm to a gunshot wound, and was left to raise her children in a flood-prone area. Strangers helped her escape and begin again.
When Homes 4 Homes learned about her situation, they built her a brick home with a door that locks, the first she had ever had. She says people had used her all her life. Homes 4 Homes helped her and asked for nothing in return.
Every completed home comes back to us as a story.
When a home is funded, Homes 4 Homes sends back a completion report: the family’s name, their photo at the front door, and what changed for them. Three recent reports, exactly as they arrived.
School attendance rises where homes are builtA brick home changes nearly everything.
Homes 4 Homes tracks what happens in a community after the keys are handed over. Families are healthier, children spend more time in school, and what a family owns stays protected. The numbers hold across 15 communities in four countries.
- school attendance
- +30%
- domestic violence
- −90%
- property loss from fire and theft
- −87%
- soil-based illness
- −40%
- homes built
- 1,400+
- people housed
- 8,500+
- communities
- 15
- countries
- 4
What people ask about the partnership.
How does May Construction give back?
Through a business partnership with Homes 4 Homes, a nonprofit that builds safe brick homes for families living in mud huts in Northern Uganda. May has helped build 31 homes to date, and counting.
What is Homes 4 Homes?
A housing nonprofit that began building homes in Uganda in 2015. It has since built 1,400+ homes across Uganda, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, housing more than 8,500 people. Every home is built with local leadership, local labor, and local materials.
What does it cost to build a home in Uganda?
$4,000 funds one complete home: brick walls, a metal roof, locking doors and windows, and a concrete floor. 100% of donations go directly to construction. Homes 4 Homes' stateside operating costs are underwritten separately by a dedicated group of donors.
How can I get involved?
Two ways. Start a conversation about your own build, and your project is part of a company that puts its work toward this. Or give directly at homes4homes.org: a one-time gift of $4,000 builds a home, and monthly Groundbreaker gifts keep crews breaking ground all year.
Build a home that builds another.
