Friday 5th February
After staying in Jinja overnight we travelled the 2 hour journey back to Kampala & went straight to the Nakulabye Junior School. It was the first time we have been back to the school since the opening day in March 2008. We walked down to the site and could see how the garden around the school had matured, including a number of banana trees (which the children eat for a snack).
We met Moses the Headmaster who explained that there are 640 children registered at the school. There were fewer than this here today, as it is the first week of the new school year, however it will be full next week. We dropped in to all of the childrens classes from the Kindergarten/Nursery up to Primary class 7 (when the children are 13 years). We gave the children some small gifts including pencils, ink stamps & bouncy balls. We also took a number of educational maps & posters for the new Resource centre. The children greeted us politely as we moved from class to class talking with them & asking questions as they worked.
At lunctime we saw the children queue outside the kitchen for their maize porridge (posho). It was then playtime & the boys from Riannas Fund produced a football & challenged the Nakulabye team. The boys in red team joined with Steve, Jon & John as Tanya videoed the match. The highlight was John Kelting scoring a superb goal & celebrating by running round the pitch with his Rianna's Fund shirt over his head. The pitch was more or less flat except for a smouldering bonfire down the left wing!
Meanwhile in the background the women from the community were washing and hanging clothes over the fence, whilst the younger children fetched water from the community well on the site of the school. We were pleased to learn that the school site is now regarded as a safer environment & consequently people are starting to build houses in the immediate vicinity. We felt so encouraged after visiting the school as it seems to have had a positive impact on so many of the children in this poor community.
After leaving the school we checked back in to our hotel in Kampala and had a couple of hours rest before heading in to town to meet up with Robert Nsibirwa to learn some about local microfinance initiatives.
For more information on Nakulabye Junior School please see the website;
http://riannasfund.org/Nakulabye%20Junior%20School.htm
Steve, Tanya, Jon & John
After staying in Jinja overnight we travelled the 2 hour journey back to Kampala & went straight to the Nakulabye Junior School. It was the first time we have been back to the school since the opening day in March 2008. We walked down to the site and could see how the garden around the school had matured, including a number of banana trees (which the children eat for a snack).
We met Moses the Headmaster who explained that there are 640 children registered at the school. There were fewer than this here today, as it is the first week of the new school year, however it will be full next week. We dropped in to all of the childrens classes from the Kindergarten/Nursery up to Primary class 7 (when the children are 13 years). We gave the children some small gifts including pencils, ink stamps & bouncy balls. We also took a number of educational maps & posters for the new Resource centre. The children greeted us politely as we moved from class to class talking with them & asking questions as they worked.
At lunctime we saw the children queue outside the kitchen for their maize porridge (posho). It was then playtime & the boys from Riannas Fund produced a football & challenged the Nakulabye team. The boys in red team joined with Steve, Jon & John as Tanya videoed the match. The highlight was John Kelting scoring a superb goal & celebrating by running round the pitch with his Rianna's Fund shirt over his head. The pitch was more or less flat except for a smouldering bonfire down the left wing!
Meanwhile in the background the women from the community were washing and hanging clothes over the fence, whilst the younger children fetched water from the community well on the site of the school. We were pleased to learn that the school site is now regarded as a safer environment & consequently people are starting to build houses in the immediate vicinity. We felt so encouraged after visiting the school as it seems to have had a positive impact on so many of the children in this poor community.
After leaving the school we checked back in to our hotel in Kampala and had a couple of hours rest before heading in to town to meet up with Robert Nsibirwa to learn some about local microfinance initiatives.
For more information on Nakulabye Junior School please see the website;
http://riannasfund.org/Nakulabye%20Junior%20School.htm
Steve, Tanya, Jon & John
please ineed your help i dont have school fees help me pliz
ReplyDeleteplease help me i finished my form 4 but i dont have enough fees
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