What recurring monthly support actually changes
Wonders is connected to 57 children and 10 caregivers — 67 people in total.
The Stability Plan is not meant to be an abstract donation ladder.
Each level represents a materially different condition of everyday life:
- Level 1: $1,500/month — Bare Minimum
- Level 2: $2,500/month — Solid Baseline
- Level 3: $5,000/month — Caregiver-Supported Stability
These are rounded working reference points based on current local costs and direct project clarification.
Their purpose is simple:
to make clear what actually changes as recurring support becomes stronger.
Table of Contents
- Why recurring stability matters
- The three monthly stability levels
- What the levels mean at community scale
- What these levels cover — and what they don’t
- How the Stability Circle connects
- One-time help and recurring support
- Monthly support and the Development Roadmap
- How to read these estimates
- Learn more
1. Why recurring stability matters
Food, rental shelter, cooking fuel and caregiving do not happen once.
They return every month.
One-time help can solve an immediate gap, but recurring support changes the starting point.
Instead of rebuilding support from zero each month, Wonders can begin with something already underneath everyday life.
2. The three monthly stability levels
Level 1: $1,500/month — Bare Minimum
Simple shared-support picture: 300 people × at least $5/month
This is the first recurring level that begins to cover the three essentials required simply to keep daily life going:
basic food, minimum rental shelter, and cooking fuel.
What this covers
- Food — about $500 CAD/month
Roughly one basic staple-focused meal per person per day.
At this level, most of the food budget has to stay focused on the core staple meal, with very little room for vegetables, seasoning, breakfast porridge, tea, fruit or wider variety. - Minimum rental shelter — about $853 CAD/month
Six very small rented rooms at approximately 300,000 UGX each/month. - Charcoal / wood — about $147 CAD/month
A working allowance of approximately 375,000 UGX/month for cooking fuel.
What “bare minimum shelter” means here
Each rented room is only about 10 ft × 12 ft — roughly the size of a small bedroom. At this level, about 11 people would be sleeping in each room.
What this means
This level covers the basics of survival: staple-focused food, extremely crowded rental shelter, and cooking fuel.
It is not a dignified long-term living condition.
Level 2: $2,500/month — Solid Baseline
Simple shared-support picture: 500 people × at least $5/month
This level changes both what people are able to eat and how tightly everyone has to live.
What this covers
- Food — about $1,000 CAD/month
Roughly 1.5 meal-equivalents per person per day: one fuller main meal with more room for vegetables, seasoning and variety, plus a lighter daily food layer such as breakfast porridge, tea and some fruit. - More livable rental shelter — about $1,284 CAD/month
Instead of 6 small rooms, we expand to 8 larger rental spaces, creating substantially more sleeping room than the three tiny rooms used in the Bare Minimum model. - Charcoal / wood — about $235 CAD/month
Approximately 600,000 UGX/month for cooking fuel.
What this means
A solid baseline: fuller food, more livable rental shelter, and cooking fuel.
The current working arithmetic comes to approximately $2,519 CAD/month, which is close enough to use $2,500/month as the public planning threshold.
Level 3: $5,000/month — Caregiver-Supported Stability
Simple shared-support picture: 1,000 people × at least $5/month
This level keeps the Solid Baseline in place and adds recurring compensation for the people carrying daily responsibility for the community.
What this covers
- Solid Baseline — about $2,500 CAD/month
Food, more livable rental shelter and cooking fuel. - Caregiver compensation — about $2,500 CAD/month
637,500 UGX per caregiver/month × 10 caregivers = 6,375,000 UGX/month, approximately $2,500 CAD.
What this means
The Solid Baseline, plus recurring compensation for all 10 caregivers.
This is the strongest recurring stability level in the current plan.
3. What the levels mean at community scale
Large monthly totals can be difficult to picture.
The table below simply divides each level across all 67 people connected to Wonders.
It is an equivalent community share, not a claim that every person has identical individual costs.
| Monthly stability level | Equivalent per person / day | Equivalent per person / month | Equivalent per person / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 — $1,500 | ~$0.75 | ~$24.40 | ~$268.50 |
| Level 2 — $2,500 | ~$1.24 | ~$37.31 | ~$448 |
| Level 3 — $5,000 | ~$2.49 | ~$74.63 | ~$896 |
The purpose is to make the scale of shared care understandable.
Even small daily amounts become substantial recurring responsibilities when they have to be carried across an entire care community, every day of the year.
4. What these levels cover — and what they don’t
The three levels above focus on the foundational recurring costs used in this simplified Stability Plan:
- food;
- rented shelter;
- cooking fuel;
- and, at Level 3, caregiver compensation.
They are not a complete list of everything Wonders may need.
Other needs — such as mattresses, bedding, clothing, mosquito nets, schooling-related costs, healthcare, hygiene, equipment, repairs and replacement — happen on different rhythms and belong in the wider needs and operating picture.
In simple terms:
The Stability Plan shows the recurring foundation.
Monthly Stability & Operating Needs shows the wider operating picture underneath and beyond it.
Needs and the Development Roadmap show many of the practical and structural things that recurring stability must sit beside.
Explore Monthly Stability & Operating Needs →
5. How the Stability Circle connects
The Stability Plan explains what the three monthly levels mean.
The Stability Circle is where people can help build them together.
The shared-support pictures above use $5/month because it makes the scale easy to see. People may give different amounts; no one has to give exactly $5.
The Stability Plan explains the levels. The Stability Circle gives people a way to help build them.
Explore the Stability Circle →
6. One-time help and recurring support
These levels measure recurring monthly support.
One-time help remains valuable for immediate food, shelter or other needs, but it does not create the same ongoing monthly base.
There is no separate one-time ladder.
7. Monthly support and the Development Roadmap
Recurring stability and development are connected, but they do different jobs.
Monthly support helps carry everyday life. Development funding helps change the conditions around it.
The Stability Plan focuses on the recurring side.
The Development Roadmap covers the larger three-phase work of improving daily living conditions, strengthening productive capacity and, over time, building toward a permanent sanctuary.
Explore the Development Roadmap →
8. How to read these estimates
These are working monthly reference points, not fixed future prices or audited financial statements.
The current working conversion used for UGX examples is:
1 CAD ≈ 2,550 UGX
Local costs are most meaningful in UGX.
CAD is used as the project’s primary public planning and fundraising reference.
This page intentionally keeps the arithmetic compact.
For deeper cost evidence, assumptions, cost frequency and the wider operating picture, see:
Monthly Stability & Operating Needs →
As stronger current information becomes available, these working estimates can be refined openly.
9. Learn more
- Stability Circle →
The shared recurring-support pathway. - Monthly Stability & Operating Needs →
The deeper recurring-cost and operating-evidence layer. - Development Roadmap →
How recurring stability sits beside the three-phase development journey. - Needs →
Concrete practical needs, resources and capabilities. - Transparency / FAQ →
Legal status, fund flow, verification and questions. - Donate →
Current giving routes.
Closing
The Stability Plan is meant to make three real differences easy to understand:
Level 1: $1,500/month — Bare Minimum
Staple-focused food, extremely crowded rental shelter, and cooking fuel.
Level 2: $2,500/month — Solid Baseline
Fuller daily food, substantially more livable rental shelter and cooking fuel.
Level 3: $5,000/month — Caregiver-Supported Stability
The Solid Baseline plus recurring compensation for all 10 caregivers.
The goal is not simply to reach larger numbers.
It is to move from rebuilding the same basics month after month toward a more dependable base beneath everyday care.