Help create sustainable
education & development
in rural Uganda
You can make a credit card card donation to help establish the high school or to contribute to Julia's mosquito net and book fund by clicking on the Donate Now button below.
To sponsor a child, click here and print off a sponsorship form.
100% of your money goes to help the children in Uganda (no credit card or admin costs)
Julia Challender, a teacher from Highgate, recently returned from six months spent teaching in CHIFCOD schools.
Click here to read her fascinating diary.
Community Transformation in Rural Uganda
The Volunteer Uganda website supports a group of charities helping people in rural Uganda to create sustainable education & development. The programme started in 1994 when a group of parents set up the Kirima Parents Primary School for children in their rural district of south-western Uganda. The project, which has been supported by overseas sponsors paying half the fees for local children, has been an enormous success and has helped transform the lives of people in the area.
The success of the project inspired the people of Kinkiizi to set up the Community Transformation Programme - a series of interlinking initiatives which are making a real difference to families in the Uganda.
The projects have been carefully designed to work together and make a permanent difference:
- Setting up four sponsored primary schools
- Providing dormitories for children without parents
- Cooked lunches for children who have too far to walk home
- Providing of healthcare for families to avoid lengthy interruptions in education from ill health
- A new secondary school for children leaving primary education
- A college for graduates of the secondary school a route to paid employment
- Micro finance loans to help college graduates and families create profitable rural businesses
You can help today by:
- Sponsoring a child at one of the primary schools
- Helping fund a new secondary school to create a route from the primary schools to the college
Our plans for the future are to build on the success of these projects and use them as a model for similar initiatives throughout Uganda.
The project started with four primary schools, supporting the parents who established the schools for their villages.
The schools make a fundamental difference to the lives of the children and, indeed, their entire families. It is a heart-warming experience to visit the area each year and see the changes in these communities (and, unfortunately, the lack of development in nearby villages).
Click on the school name to find out more: Kirima, Nyakabungo, Rutenga & Nyamirama.
A brand new High School was built last year, funded mainly by generous donations from pupils, families & staff at Highgate School in North London.
The first two year groups are already well established with 170 pupils now working their way towards GCSE and A level examinations.
So far we have sponsorship for 80 children and we are urgently seeking sponsors for the next 90 so that this year's intake are funded ready before we have to start supporting the next year group in 2010.
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The new gap year programme provides a life-changing opportunity for school and university leavers to spend a few months volunteering in Uganda.
Volunteers directly help in schools and development projects. Perhaps equally important is the "knowledge exchange": helping people from a remote African community gain a greater understanding of the wider world (and visa versa).
Of course, it is not all hard work; volunteers will get an opportunity for fantastic wildlife safaris and to experience a region few tourists have reached.
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