Education Uganda Project #12259

Educate Vulnerable Children in Rural E. Uganda

by The River Fund

Project Report | Jun 21, 2024
Quarterly Report

By Akurut Gloria Sabrina | Chairperson

School supplies for the children of different ages

*Please note that the following is an interim report while our new community leaders receive training and while River Fund revises the project. Thank you for your patience. June 20, 2024

LIVING HOPE GROUP TORORO BUGIRI

TORORO UGANDA

TO: THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RIVER FUND USA

RE: REPORT SUBMISSION

INTRODUCTION

Living Hope group is in Uganda in Tororo and Bugiri Districts which receives funds from the River Fund Foundation. Our goal is to support the education of at-risk children by supplying needed scholastic materials, school fees, and mentoring to encourage them to stay in school.

CHILDREN SERVED

Tororo - Primary 16 students, Secondary 9 students

Bugiri - Primary 20 students, Secondary 5 students

ACHIEVEMENTS

As Living Hope group members, our children have benefited in many ways. From the time of funding the following are the achievements;

- We were able to buy for the children books, pens, pencils and geometrical sets

- Uniforms were given to all children

- Mentoring of the children has been done very well and the children are responding to them openly.

CHALLENGES

During the distribution of funds there were no big challenges faced other than there is lack of office accessories like computers that can help in writing reports and submitting them in time

We could not fulfill the planned budget because we didn’t receive enough funds and this caused omission of some of the children’s school requirements

RECOMMENDATION

As Living Hope Tororo and Bugiri we do request that if possible we get extra funds to buy office requirements to ease work in support for the children.

CONCLUSION

We are so grateful to the sponsors for the great work they are doing. Because of them our children are comfortable and supported in schools and will have a better future.

Thank you so much for your cooperation in supporting our children, may you be blessed abundantly.

Prepared by:

Akurut Gloria Sabrina

Chair Person Living Hope Tororo and Bugiri

Children picking up school supplies

Basic living supplies as well

Secondary School Supplies

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Feb 9, 2024
Quarterly Report

By Teopista Auma | Chairperson

CHILDREN’S REPORT OF 09^THFEBRUARY 2024

The report comprises of 4 groups of children.

Number of children as supported per group.

Name of the group Number of children

Tororo 151

Bugiri 165

RWEN 285

Amonikakinei 74

Total number of children 675

Areas we support

Nursery children

Primary

Secondary

Technical

Our activities for children in our 4 groups

1. Education

2. Scholastic materials

3. Uniforms

4. Feeding children at school

5. Feeding children at home

6. Child headed families

7. Health care HIV/AIDS

8. Centre schools

9. Child’s day

10. Fees top up

11. Developments

12. Challenges

1. Education

Some schools opened up on the 8^thof January 2024. Schools have officially opened on the 05^thFebruary 2024 and they are at school

2. Scholastic materials

Materials have not been given to children because there are no funds in the 4 groups; Tororo, Bugiri, Rwen and Amonikakinei.

3. Uniforms

We have been giving out uniforms every beginning of the year, this 2024 no uniforms have been given

4. Feeding children at school.

We always provide food to children for midday meals, beans and posho to our children

5. Feeding children at home.

There are children who stay with their old grandmothers, these feed with their grands at home, when we got funds.

Last December, we provided these elderly with some food but now we haven’t given

6. Child headed families

These children stay alone as we continue monitoring them. We have been providing food whenever we get funds from our donors.

7. Health care HIV/AIDS

Our children keep healthy, we make sure they are treated whenever those HIV AIDS positive maintain their clinic days, get drugs in time, counsel them, encourage them, give them food.

8. Centre schools

We are trying but we have sent these children to nearby schools as we keep checking them, we have not packed beans and maize for them.

9. Child’s day

We may not have it unless we get funds, have we prepare food for children’s get together, play together and share everything to together

10. Fee top up

We have been topping up fees to the very needy but there is no way.

11. Development

All our children have reported to schools where they belong and learning is going on well

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Oct 12, 2023
Quarterly Report

By Teopista Auma | Chairperson

CHILDREN’S REPORT OF 12^TH 10-2023 (ORPHANS SCHOOL REPORT)

THE REPORT INCLUDES 4 GROUPS OF OVC CHILDREN (Orphans and other Vulnerable Children)

GROUP

RWEN 285

Bugiri 175

Amon 106

Tororo 165

TOTAL 731

Our areas of support are:

Nursery

Primary

Secondary

Technical

University

Activities involved

Education

Feeding children at their home

Child headed families

Scholastic materials

Uniforms

Fees top up

School dropout

Care for OVC

Developments

Challenges

Suggestions

Education

Each group has to see to it that every child goes to school when school open.

Right now our children are in term III of learning of the year, schools opened up early September.

The performance of term II, according to our learners in term two performance was average and we were very happy with the promising results of our children, we thank God for that.

Feeding children at school

As usual our donors play a great role whenever we receive funds, we make our budgets for food up to the end of term two of learning of our children, that is why learning goes on well, children feed at school and they are not hungry. They feed on beans and posho (Posho is made by 'mingling' maize flour with water).

Feeding children at their home

There are children who stay with the elderly women who lost their sons and daughters, these children eat at school and when they come home they eat with their grandmothers at home.

Child headed families

These are the children who stay alone in their home and the elder child welcomes a parent.

We provide beans and maize for them for their meals, these children lead a hard life. The members in every group have to see to it that they visit them counsel them make sure they are safe.

Scholastic materials

These carry 50% of our funds. We have to provide scholastic to our children termly up to the end of the year term 1,2,3 unlike meals end up to term 2 where we expect parents to help to give beans and maize got from the seeds for planting in season two of the year.

Fees top up

This is given to the very needy children like those from child headed families and these are mostly victims of HIV/AIDs children and other needy ones, each group has to put aside little funds as our donors help those in need and indeed they are needy.

Uniforms

We give to our children uniforms once a year and this is done in every group of the four groups, it is done at the beginning of the year before schools open usually in January so that by the time schools open children are already on their uniforms. Thank you to our kind donors.

School dropout

Some children drop out of school. When sick, when they lack parent and for some reasons best known to them, we always pick these children and take care of them, refer them to project places for example to tailoring, salons to give them trainings that may help them in future mostly done to a girl child because girls are vulnerable and need great care.

Care for OVC

These children need a lot of care. It is this group where we pick the very needy for special support like fees top up, feed them at school and at home.

Developments

We have had smooth learning of our children from term one and right now we are in term three of learning and the performance of children from term one to term two has been average.

We have been able to provide the basic needs in learning including mid-day meals.

Challenges

Our term three of learning of our children has a problem because, we had put a task to our parents that from seeds given for planting they give maize and beans to children to take to school except the child headed families, and the children from the very needy families.

The season was very poor with no good yield was realized so there was no food for some of our children to take to school for their mid-day meals.

Suggestions

We have the rains going on now. If we had more seeds we could give to women to plant mostly maize and beans for food for children.

Some classes like Level are beginning exams next week they can help their parents at home to plant more beans and maize after their exams.

Our request is that if there is a way in case of funds we get after Christmas so that early January basic needs of learning and meals are given out to children. Schools open early in February so that everything is ready for them begin learning in time.

God bless

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Teopista

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