Butale Mixed Primary School, Masaka
The Association in Uganda and Germany is primarily concerned with the following tasks:
- Arranging school sponsorships for particularly needy children
- Financial support to a primary school for the renovation of classrooms and multi-purpose rooms, school meals (one hot meal a day), securing teachers' salaries
Education is the prerequisite for a self-determined and independent life. Despite compulsory schooling and theoretically free school attendance in Uganda, many children do not have the opportunity to attend school. There is also a lack of money for the prescribed school uniforms, necessary notebooks, pens, or toilet paper for state schools. They often have to help with the farming at home or take care of their younger siblings.
Many schools in rural areas are in poor condition and classes are very large.
Close to the Hand-in-Hand community centre (Projects - Community Centre) is the state primary school "Butale Mixed Primary School". The building has existed since the 1920s and needs renovation. Since the beginning of the close cooperation with the headmaster Mr. Francis Semaimba, eight classrooms have been renovated, a soccer field and, above all, a deep borehole has been built, which supplies the children with drinking water and also enables a small fruit and vegetable garden. Since there is also a hot meal once a day, the number of students has increased from 360 to almost 450.
In doing so, the Association always relies on an appropriate personal contribution from the partners. This increases responsibility and identification for the respective measures. Since the beginning of 2018, the Association has been employing an employee on site who accompanies and documents the support and execution as well as the necessity of the steps.
Another major project is the renovation of the school roof, which was uncovered during a heavy rainy season. Because it could only be put back on in a makeshift way due to a lack of money, it is still leaking and urgently needs a general renovation.
St. Charles Lwanga Primary School, Kalisizo
Desolate condition:
It is about a private school (partly with a boarding school) with an excellent pedagogical concept, whose sponsor (who also built the building) has died. There is no government support. The conversation between the chairman of the Association in 2013 with the director and the chairman of the parents' council as well as the subsequent tour show the need for renovation in terms of electricity, school rooms and renewal of the water supply. 11 sponsored children of the Association go to school there and make very good progress. There is an urgent need to change the catastrophic circumstances. Because of the darkness from 7 p.m., we start buying high-quality solar lamps to enable work in the early evening. The next steps are the expansion of classrooms, teachers' accommodation, and toilets, as well as the upgrading of teachers' salaries.
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Dear donors,
Thank you very much for the donation for three solar lights in the meantime. Charged with solar energy, they can brightly illuminate a desk for a few hours. This gives students the opportunity to work or read in the evenings. Hand in Hand for Uganda e.V. would like to thank all donors for their help and commitment and wishes them a healthy and peaceful 2014.
Renate Blank in February 2014
High-quality solar lamps make one independent of the public power supply, which is still often not available. The renovation of the existing power supply would also cost many times more.
A good and helpful start for this small school with about 250 children.
Thank you very much!
Project Primary School Bbaala
The Bbaala Primary School, located near the AIDS orphanage of Goretti Namuyomba and Emmanuel Musoke, is in a very bad condition.
The existing buildings for about 1,400 pupils are dilapidated, as are the teachers' accommodation, the classrooms are too small for about 80 children each and the sanitary facilities are in extremely poor condition.
The education of young people is an essential goal of the Association, because it contributes to increasing the quality of life, combating diseases and responsible family planning. That is why in 2009 the Association decided to provide help in Bbaala.
In a first step, an entire building with two classrooms was renovated. The costs amounted to 4,900 euros, more than half of which was financed by a "donations instead of gifts" campaign. Walls, roofs, floors, windows, and doors were renovated. The municipal vocational schools on Bergsonstraße in Munich were mainly involved in the equipment of the building with new school desks.
In the pictures you can see the progress of the renovation as well as the grand inauguration ceremony during the visit of the Association chairmen Renate Blank and Thomas Langsch in August 2010. Currently, the Association is trying to find public sponsors for the further expansion of the buildings. Of course, small donations can also be put to good use.
