Build an inclusive future for kids with disability

by Kyaninga Child Development Centre
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Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability
Build an inclusive future for kids with disability

Project Report | Feb 12, 2025
More Children - More Smiles!

By Jane O'Leary | Kyaninga Education Hub Director

Practicing cooking skills in a Mobility wheelchair
Practicing cooking skills in a Mobility wheelchair

Picture this - it's 8 AM on a Monday morning in Western Uganda, and the dusty roads are alive with streams of children in bright uniforms heading to school for the first day of the new academic year. After a busy week of preparing their classrooms, our KIMS teachers await the arrival of both familiar and new faces. But many of the KIMs children who have disabilities are unable to walk to school. Instead they are carried from their ‘Boda boda’ - the motorbike taxis- into the waiting arms of their teachers or lifted into custom made bamboo wheelchairs provided by Kyaninga Mobility. Whilst others arrive in our rickety old school bus (we've almost reached our savings goal for the new one).

The bus and the wheelchairs might be considered to be ‘the wheels to opportunity’ and have enabled us to enrol 10 new children, bringing our KIMs family to 68 children strong. We're bursting at the seams in our current space, but we're making it work! That old bike shed? It's now a vibrant classroom where our teenagers learn vital life skills. And here's the exciting part - we've started building our new school at KCDC’s new Centre of Excellence. The first day of school coincided with the foundations being laid for 7 KIMs classrooms which will be able us to accommodate many more children with disabilities who can learn alongside typical learners in inclusive classrooms. Think about this - only 9% of children with disabilities in Uganda get to go to school. But at KCDC we're changing that story, one child at a time.

With your support, next February could see even more children in green KIMs uniforms starting their educational journey in a purpose-built school. Stay with us on this journey and help write a new chapter in these children's lives.

A 'Bike shed' converted to a vibrate learning zone
A 'Bike shed' converted to a vibrate learning zone
Small group learning supports rapid progress
Small group learning supports rapid progress
Learning independent living skills at KIMS
Learning independent living skills at KIMS
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Oct 16, 2024
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By Chris Gibbon | Director Kyaninga Education Hub

Jun 18, 2024
We need bigger classrooms before the rains come!!

By Fiona Beckerlegge | Executive Director

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Kyaninga Child Development Centre

Location: Fort Portal, Kabarole - Uganda
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Twitter: @kyaningacdc
Project Leader:
Fiona Beckerlegge
Fort Portal , Kabarole Uganda
$20,949 raised of $363,034 goal
 
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