Love these charming scholars from Ntawo Primary School singing about the importance of school, school, school. Every book, pencil, crayon and the hope you send along with them changes their lives forever.
Tag: Spring 2014
Final distribution
Naguru Reception Center and Dwelling Places were the final destinations for Sister Schools’ 2014 Spring Tour. We’ve been working with Dwelling Places for about 15 years, Naguru for over 20. We’ve seen the population of children grow and change, from mostly children orphaned by HIV-AIDS and those directly affected by political violence to runaways and […]
End of Term
The end of the school term in Uganda coincided with our last day of school visits. Susan, the Head Teacher at Mukono Boarding Primary School, organized classroom demonstrations so that we could see how that school uses the supplies and support we send. Mukono has a dedicated librarian for their Literacy Center and she and […]
Kampala School and Agape
We visited one of our favorite places yesterday, Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped (KSPH). The school is the only one of its kind in the country and this year serves 142 students with physical and cognitive disabilities. The school started as a way to educate children with cerebral palsy since the regular schools simply […]
Lutengo Literacy Center Dedication
As Fernwood Principal Lew Dickert says, “Everything about this place is powerful.” Yesterday’s dedication of the Lutengo Literacy Center was that and more. The Literacy Center, supported in large part by the Fernwood Elementary School community and employees at OAC Services, is Sister Schools’ fifth and the Lutengo community put it to full use before […]
The Principal’s Perspective
We’re thrilled that Lew Dickert, principal at Fernwood Elementary in Bothell, WA-known there as Mr D-has joined us in Uganda this year. As we left one particularly challenging little village school, Lew remarked, “There are real heroes everywhere,” yet he also noted that the challenges of teaching are universal-teacher salaries, class size, materials-albeit Uganda’s teachers […]
Program for HIV+ children
AIDS is still a huge problem in Uganda and many children are born HIV+. In 2009, after his wife died of AIDS, Tjuuko Muhammad started Give a Hand and Save Lives to provide support for children born HIV+. Muhammad talked with some of his HIV+ friends, made home visits and realized that many HIV+ children, […]
First week of distribution
Our first full week of school distribution visits is over. We visited three schools each day, for a total of 12 this week. Some, like Kibiribiri Primary, which we visited today, were first-time visits. We use that time to get to know the school and leave a few items, such as soccer balls and dictionaries. […]
Everyone gets a backpack!
Asia, our Uganda Coordinator, has been encouraging us to find a way to get some school supplies directly into students’ hands. This year we printed up drawstring backpacks and filled each (thanks to yeoman efforts by Janet, our warehouse volunteer, who pulled out relevant supplies, and some terrific folks who volunteered for an all-day backpack-stuffing […]
Distribution Begins
Terry and Michael, with help from Uganda staff Asia and William, delivered hundreds of boxes of school supplies last week in preparation for official distribution visits this week. Our first formal distribution visits were today. We brought supplies to one second-year school, a first-year school and left some token items at a new-to-us school that […]