About the Foundation
A plan to care for Rwanda's elders, properly
Harmony Senior Life Care Service Center Foundation exists to build and operate a senior care facility in Kigali. We are at the beginning of that work — raising the support, assembling the partners, and preparing the ground.
Our beginning
How Harmony began
Harmony Senior Life Care Service Center Foundation was established to answer a question that has no good answer in much of Kigali today: where does an older person go when their family can no longer provide the care they need?
In Rwandan life, elders have always been cared for at home, by family. That tradition is a strength, and Harmony is not intended to replace it. But families now face circumstances that affection cannot resolve on its own — work that takes adult children to other cities, homes that cannot be made safe for someone with dementia, conditions that need a nurse rather than a daughter, and illnesses that call for pain relief a household cannot provide.
The foundation was established on 8 August 2026 to build the place those families currently cannot find: a facility where skilled care, specialised environments, and genuine warmth sit in the same building. Everything that follows on this website — the services, the spaces, the phases — describes that intention. None of it has been built yet.
Our Mission and Vision
What we are for, and where we intend to go
Our mission
To enhance the health and well-being of elderly people through compassionate, high-quality, and culturally sensitive care services — delivered as one integrated model rather than nine separate institutions.
Our vision
To become a leading centre for compassionate, innovative, and dignified care that enhances the quality of life for seniors, and peace of mind for their families, in the East African region and beyond.
How we intend to work
The principles Harmony is being built on
Dignity first
Care is designed around the person receiving it — their privacy, their preferences, their history, and their right to be treated as an adult with a life behind them.
Professional care
Compassion is not a substitute for competence. We intend to staff Harmony with qualified professionals and to pursue every licence and approval the work requires.
Family partnership
Families are part of the care team. We intend to build visiting space, communication, and bereavement support around their continued involvement.
Transparency
We publish what we know and label what we do not. No service, partnership, approval, or figure is presented as settled on this site unless it is.
Designed for real bodies
Mobility aids, failing eyesight, unsteady balance, and tired hands are the design brief — not an accommodation added at the end.
Built to be copied
We intend to document what we learn so the second facility of this kind in Rwanda is easier to build than the first.
Our Intended Community Impact
Our intended community impact
If Harmony is built, the effects are meant to reach well past its own residents.
Dignified later life
Older adults gain a place where care is skilled and unhurried, and where their needs are anticipated rather than improvised.
Relief for family caregivers
Families gain a trustworthy option — and the ability to stay in work, education, and health while their relative is well cared for.
Skilled local employment
Operating Harmony is intended to create nursing, caregiving, therapy, catering, and facilities roles, with training pathways for local staff.
A stronger care network
We intend to work alongside hospitals, clinics, and community health workers so older patients have somewhere to go after discharge.
Care that reaches outward
Planned home care and community-based rehabilitation would extend support to older people who remain in their own homes.
A model others can use
By documenting what we build and what it costs, we intend to make the next facility easier for someone else to start.
Places for those who cannot pay
The plan is for fees from paying residents to subsidise places for vulnerable older adults, low-income families, people without family support, and people with disabilities.
Meet Our Founder
MUREKATETE Jacqueline
Harmony Senior Life Care Service Center Foundation was founded by MUREKATETE Jacqueline, who leads the project from planning through to the facility's intended opening.
The foundation grew out of a straightforward observation: older people in and around Kigali deserve care that is both loving and skilled, and families should not have to assemble that care alone. Harmony is her answer to that gap — a plan carried from a business case toward a building, and a commitment to see it through to the point where someone can actually move in.
She works directly with prospective donors, sponsors, and institutional partners, and welcomes detailed conversations with anyone considering support — including the difficult questions about cost, timeline, governance, and risk.
MUREKATETE Jacqueline, Founder