Education Project
The orphans we care for hardly speak English since they are in various remote schools located at Namalemba, Naigobya village and Luuka town council.
The Ugandan government passed a law that children from Primary 1 to Primary 4 be taught in their native language (thematic languages) while in class and teaching English starts from Primary 5 to Primary 7 and all this is done at Primary level. In Luuka these children are taught mostly in Lusoga (the native language).
This has affected many children in that many have failed to speak and read English.
Therefore we call for support to establish a Resource Centre where we can train them to speak, read and write English. We need to equip the centre with computers where internet is available and with reading and writing materials.
Some of the 15 children we care for currently stay with their guardians and single parents in different foster homes because of inadequate funds. We also call for good Samaritans to sponsor an orphan at Hope for Orphans Organization.
Most of our children go to Mawembe Primary School and at Kiyunga Parents Primary School but since the schools are both a kilometer away from their various homes, children have to wake up as early as 5:30am in the morning, prepare themselves and walk to school since classes have to start at about 8:00am.
What is saddening is that most parents fail to provide food for their children while at school despite government’s efforts to encourage them in doing so.
So children have to walk back home after school and eat one meal in the evening and others end up eating fruits like Jack fruit. They also engage into doing domestic house work and later go to sleep by 8:00pm.
Many schools especially some which are government aided and private ones are in sorry state mostly in rural areas compared to those in urban centers. Some schools in remote Luuka district conduct classes under trees due to having inadequate classrooms and space to build others.
But we appreciate government that it has done its best in promoting educational standards in the country by constructing classroom blocks at its government schools though it sometimes takes long to support its schools in remote areas.
Since the schools are in remote areas and some in pathetic conditions, children can be given a chance to be taken to other better boarding schools in urban centres once we get for them sponsors for their education. But just to let you know that education in Uganda is paid for and quite expensive right from Primary to Secondary/College and University level under private institutions.
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