In development — not yet operational — we are raising the support needed to build it.
Our Future Facility
This is the vision for Harmony's future facility in Ndera Sector, Kigali: the spaces we intend to create and the thinking behind each one. Every space described here is proposed. None of it has been built.
Project overview
Harmony is planned as a purpose-built senior care campus on a four-hectare site in Ndera Sector, rather than an adapted house. That distinction matters more than it sounds: almost every difficulty in caring for frail older people — bathing someone safely, moving a wheelchair through a doorway, keeping a resident with dementia from wandering into a road, giving a dying person privacy with their family — is decided by the building before any staff member arrives.
The plan is for roughly fifty residential rooms alongside shared and clinical space: a low-rise campus arranged around planted courtyards, with single-storey or lift-served accommodation, level thresholds throughout, wide corridors with handrails, and clinical support close to the residential wings rather than in a separate block. A multipurpose hall and dedicated mortuary provision are included in the plan from the outset.
The spaces below set out what we intend to build. All drawings and illustrations on this site are conceptual: the facility has not been designed in detail by an architect, has not been approved, and has not been constructed.
The planned spaces
Each space below is proposed. Every illustration is conceptual — none of these rooms, wings, or gardens exists.
Private and shared rooms intended to feel like rooms rather than wards — space for a resident's own furniture and photographs, a window with something worth looking at, accessible en-suite bathing with grab rails and level entry, and a call system reachable from the bed and the bathroom floor.
A dedicated therapy space planned for physiotherapy and occupational therapy: parallel bars and walking practice, mats and exercise equipment scaled for older bodies, and a practice area for the real tasks of daily life — standing from a chair, managing stairs, getting safely in and out of a bath.
Nursing stations, treatment and observation rooms, secure medication storage, and clean supply areas, positioned within the residential wings so that clinical help is close at hand rather than a journey away. Space is also intended for visiting physicians and specialists to hold clinics on site.
A proper dining room designed for conversation, with a kitchen capable of preparing therapeutic and modified-texture diets. Eating together is treated as care, not catering: shared meals are among the most reliable ways to keep appetite, mood, and cognition from slipping.
Daylit communal rooms for worship, music, celebrations, group activity, and simply sitting with other people. Planned with varied seating — firm chairs with arms that older people can actually rise from — and enough room for a wheelchair to join a circle rather than sit outside it.
Planted courtyards and shaded walking paths with level, non-slip surfaces, frequent benches, and raised beds for residents who want to keep gardening. For the memory-care wing, an enclosed garden is intended so residents can walk outdoors freely and safely without supervision feeling like restraint.
Accessibility is intended as the baseline condition of the whole campus: step-free routes, wide doorways, continuous handrails, lever handles, contrasting colour at thresholds and edges, generous lighting without glare, and acoustic treatment so that hearing aids are helped rather than overwhelmed.
Comfortable, private places for families to spend real time — not a corridor chair. The plan includes a quiet family room, space for children to be children without disturbing other residents, and provision for relatives to stay overnight when someone is seriously ill or dying.
Important
Everything on this page is the foundation's intention, at the planning stage. Detailed architectural design, engineering, costing, regulatory approval, and construction all lie ahead of us, and the final facility will differ from these descriptions as professional design work and funding determine what is achievable. We will replace conceptual illustrations with approved drawings, and later with photographs, as and when they genuinely exist.