Educate Vulnerable Children in Rural E. Uganda

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

Compiled by

Teopista