St. Jude Nursery & Primary Day & Boarding School in Kikondo-Kyotera, Uganda

We support  currently 402 young children from poor families in the area of Kikondo-Kyotera near Masaka in Uganda, by securing and optimizing a school project togehter with Jude Kayiwa, the founder of the school.

Fresh Water from a school owned well

Until now, the school children had to draw the water they needed for school from a far away waterhole and carry it to school in canisters on their heads, crossing a busy road. The water drawn in this way was not clean enough. With the support of the Foundation "Solidarity and Justice" Our Agenda - Foundation Solidarity and Justice (www.stiftungsolidaritaet.de) and thanks to many donors, we were able to raise the funds for digging and constructing a school-owned drinking water well on the school grounds. A company from Masaka specialised in well construction dug a well and installed an elevated tank on it within a month. The well can produce up to 5,000l of fresh water per day. As far as the water is not needed for daily washing and cooking in the school, it can be used in the future for an agricultural farm that is to be built for the school. The surrounding population will also be able to benefit from this new source of fresh water. The 402 school children are thrilled. They and we thank all supporters from the bottom of our hearts.

St. Jude Nursery & Primary Day and Boarding School Kikondo-Kyotera/Masaka, Uganda

Since our Tanzania/Uganda trip in November 2022, we have been supporting the St. Jude Nusery & Primary Day and Boarding School in Kikondo-Kyotera about 30 km southwest of Masaka/Uganda. The school was founded in 2019 by Jude Kayiwa to provide then planned 118 children from poor families, who usually cannot pay school fees or can hardly pay them, with the opportunity to get a proper school education. The school has defined as its goal to educate young citizens with proper social behaviour equipped with knowledge, skills and value convictions for a sustainable life. Its vision is holistic education for sustainable development. In the 4 years since its inception, the number of students has grown to over 400, of whom about 120 live at the school as boarders during school hours. During our visit in Nobember 2022, we took the children into our/their hearts as much as they did us. As a sign of a planned long-term partnership, we planted an avocado tree on the school grounds. However, we have also seen that there is much to be done to the very meagre facilities of the school. One of the first tasks to be tackled will be to ensure that the school has a clean drinking water source. Until now, the school children have not been fetching clean water in jerry cans from a water point a few hundred metres away from the school. As a start of our cooperation, we have financed the purchase of school desks, uniforms, backpacks as well as books and grinding equipment for the children at the beginning of the new school year 2023.