Child Development Centre for 180 Children Uganda

Dear Supporters, 

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support for the development centre.

What a year it has been for all of us. Though we are all affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing it in very different ways. For some, there are high numbers of cases, thousands of people unwell and a strain on the healthcare systems with devasting loss of life. Ongoing lockdowns and school closures continue to disrupt our way of life.

The centre just like schools can't operate normally, All schools were closed in March 2020 and reopened for candidate classes – final year students in primary and secondary school and university – in October 2020 to prepare for their transition exams. The pre-candidate classes returned to school at the beginning of this month, one full year since their last class and in the rural schools, there has been no online learning, no work sent home or activity books to ensure ongoing learning. Many of these children have been at home, working in the fields and at the markets, and the early reports from schools that we work with is that many of these students will not return to complete their education, even at primary level. Early years classes are not expected to return to school until January 2022.

A further limitation to children returning to school is their parent’s ability to pay the school fees. With many people out of work or making a smaller income, this becomes a challenge, and families will often have to choose who gets an education, and culturally, boys are more likely to be prioritised than girls. It is even harder for those who survive on subsistence farming, without a regular income.

We are focused on the construction of the centre as we get ready to host pre-primary classes in one year period.

Children have been supported with food items to boost their nutrition status. Trained 25 care givers in bead making.

My name is julian. I am a a care giver, I appreciate the continuity of SCOEN in supporting my child, my husband died 4 years ago, two years living as a single mother I dicovered I have Brest cancer, this broke me down SCOEN Team have helped me live with little thoughts, my worry is my children of which SCOEN has supplemented with support through different supporters that I don't know.

We just want to say many thanks to SCOEN for supporting us and the knowledge they are giving us, we have gained a lot, we are really thanking them for impacting our lives. So bravo SCOEN

Your support is making a difference for future leaders in Uganda l. Our recurring donors are making a continuous impact and we are truly grateful for the ongoing support. If you are not yet a recurring donor, we warmly invite you to consider setting up a recurring donation here toda

Even a few dollars a month will go a long way. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at donation@scoenuganda.org

With majority of Ugandans living in poverty  with the COVID - 19 pandemic and without funding for schooling, the education system is struggling, teachers are unpaid and the drop-out rates are high as children leave school to work. ECD is even less of a priority in communities as people are unaware of the important role it plays in a child's development and only recently has the government put emphasis on schools including it in their curriculum, but with no funding, this is almost impossible.

In the long run we hope to improve ECD education in Uganda especially in the community of Bukedea by training teachers so that they are fully aware of the importance of ECD, provide necessary resources as well as assist in funding local preschools that children from all areas can access ad costruction fo the centre. $20 will supply 20 of the necessary books for ECD for a local school. 

The construction of our new ECD center started late this year but was temporally halted due to government restrictions in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic.  

As a result of the COVID-19 restrictions, unemployment in our community exceeded 60%.  In order to support our community in these trying times we tried to hire as many local people as possible to work on the construction of the ECD center.  This project provided more than 70 part-time construction and site preparation jobs to single mothers and youth living in Uganda, providing them with the resources to purchase medical insurance, buy food and pay utilities.  

Despite the temporary setback due to COVID-19, we already laid the bricks for the building foundation and are in the process of cleaning the site and getting more materials on the site.  

Thanks to the generous past and future investment in this project by our donors through GlobalGiving we will be able to complete construction of the Center, hire staff and purchase needed supplies allowing us to educate children below five years of age so they can thrive and reach their boundless potential.

Thank you for your support adn stay safe