Build School Library & Storeroom for 650 Students

We're happy to report our 44 6th graders have been back in school since October. They missed out on six months of school and have been boarding at school and studying hard to make up for the lost time.

Using the library has been key for them, allowing them to access textbooks outside of class time to study for the naitonal exams which are coming up in late March. They are grateful for the sixth grade textbooks that are currently in our library!

Not all classes are so lucky though. With the small amount of funding we obtained last year, we used the funds to buy textbooks for sixth graders. Hurray! This is because they are the highest priority class because they are the class which has national exams which determine whether they can continue on with their schooling at the secondary level (7th to 12th grade).

Textbooks for 1st graders to 4th graders are very limited. At most, 3 to 5 copies of textbooks for classes which may have 60 students. We hope to successfully raise more funds this year so that we can add many more textbooks for 3rd and 4th graders.

We thank you for your support of this very important project of initially building the library, and then continuing on with stocking it with the most important textbooks as well as teacher resource books.

We'd appreciate it if you would share about it too, with your friends and family!

Links:

• Our web site
• See our work visually in photos

With Uganda's schools still closed due to the government's shutdown orders during covid, our library has proved to be a huge benefit to the community. Fortunately, the school's librarian lives nearby and can open the library when needed if a student needs to borrow or return a textbook.

The library also serves as a central meeting place when teachers come to the school monthly. The photo shows a brief meeting of teachers in the library. Classrooms in the school remain closed.

The library still needs student textbooks. Currently, students remain at home, but with study materials provided to them by the district. They are supposed to be studying on their own. If the library had more textbooks, more students would be able to access them for use with their home study materials from the district.

We thank you so much for the funds donated to date so that we could construct the library and provide for technology equipment storage. And we are very thankful for the hundreds of books donated from the U.S. which volunteers brought with them this past year!

If we can upgrade our fairly meager collection of Uganda textbooks, that would help us meet the final goal of this project. We aim  to help our many students access needed educational materials so they can be competitive with more developed areas of the country, and be successful on their national exams.

Please share this report with friends, family, teachers and librarians who know the power of a book in a child's life.

Links:

• Our web site
• See our work in photos