Food, clothes, medicine and school for over 300 children from the slums – on the charity’s own land right on Lake Victoria.
Run entirely by volunteers · 100% of your donation goes to the children
In short: In 2023 Get It Done set up a children’s home with a day school in Bwembe on Lake Victoria, Uganda. Over 300 children from the slums receive food, lessons, clothes and medical help there. Some of the children sleep on site, others are housed with Christian families the charity knows. On the ground, Pastor David runs the home.
Many of the children at Get It Done’s children’s home come from the slums and often went three to four days without food before. In Bwembe they have a safe place: school, fields, kitchen, well and toilets are all on the charity’s own land by Lake Victoria. Some of the children sleep in the buildings on site, others are housed with Christian families the charity knows (as of 2024).
Since 2026 there has been a teachers’ house on site. The teachers now live right there and can look after the children who stay on site.
On the ground, Pastor David runs the children’s home and the school. He is supported by 12 Christian teachers, a head teacher and a guard who keeps the grounds safe. From Austria, Bernd Broschek and Marco Caltagirone, the founders of the charity, organise donations and projects as volunteers. They travel to Bwembe themselves regularly, most recently in July 2025 – see the travel report.
“Helping the children there, who often had nothing to eat for 3–4 days, moves us deeply.”
Food first: the kitchen cooks every day for over 300 children, since November 2025 on an efficient stove. Then clothes – many children owned only one pair of underwear, one worn pair of trousers and one T-shirt until a large donation in 2025 paid for clothes for all 300 children. And hygiene: with soap for around €20 a month the charity keeps scabies and worms in check, and the girls receive sanitary pads.
In July 2025 Get It Done brought a medical team to Bwembe. In one day around 650 people were examined, including about 300 children from the home. The blood tests were shocking: 24% had malaria, 20.8% typhoid and 7.4% HIV. Acute cases were treated on the spot. In addition, 12 children’s wheelchairs were provided for paralysed children who previously had to crawl to school.
The charity’s goal is for the home to produce as much as possible itself. On 48,100 m² of its own land it grows maize, sweet potatoes, groundnuts, cassava, cabbage, amaranth, bananas and fruit, partly with irrigation. Since November 2024, 50 hens have provided fresh eggs, and in 2026 the first rice came from the charity’s own field. Since May 2024, clean drinking water has come from a 30-metre-deep well.
Since August 2026 the charity has also owned around 8,100 m² for growing cocoa. The cocoa is meant to bring in money later that goes straight to the children’s home – so that the home gradually pays for part of itself. It takes about three years for the plants to bear fruit.
With a donation to the association account or via PayPal – one-off or as a standing order. Regular donations go into food, clothes, hygiene and the teachers’ salaries. Right now, for example, €100 a month is missing for a seamstress’s salary for the girls (as of September 2026). At Christmas the charity collects separately for school books, clothes and presents – see the Christmas donation.
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In Bwembe, right on Lake Victoria in Uganda. The exact location is shown on the map.
Over 300 children attend the day school with children’s home (as of 2026). Some sleep on site, others are housed with Christian families the charity knows.
Pastor David on the ground. Get It Done in Austria, with Bernd Broschek and Marco Caltagirone, organises the donations and projects as volunteers.
For food, clothes, hygiene items, medical help, teachers’ salaries and building projects. The charity shows every larger purchase with photos on the website.
No. Get It Done is not registered as a tax-privileged charity with the Austrian Ministry of Finance.
There is no fixed sponsorship programme. A standing order helps all the children at the home together.
Responsible: Bernd Broschek, chairman of Verein Get It Done · last checked: 23 September 2026
Questions? Write to office@verein-getitdone.org
IBAN AT96 3632 2000 0018 9563 · BIC RZTIAT22322
Payment reference: Uganda · All ways to donate
