Educate Vulnerable Children in Rural E. Uganda

Project Report for Educate 600 Orphans in Rural Eastern Uganda
By Onyango Joseph: Executive Director RARUDO.

Background Information
Rayland Rural Development Organisation this year 2015 is marking 15years of existence since its inception and various achievements are realized these include Educational Support to Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC), Empowering Women and Youth through Skills Training, Carrying out the Long Term HIV/AIDS Survivor Skills, Awareness and Prevention.
As an NGO we are so grateful for our certificate to be renewed by the National NGO Board and also to permit us to operate country wide for another period of 36 months (3 years).
In this we commend the government of the republic of Uganda most especially Ministry of Internal Affairs for having trusting in our organisation to serve her people. This gives us great confidence to work with all diligence and reach out to many needy population as per the availability of resources.
We shall continue to provide support to the orphans who have lost their parents or guardians and enable them to fit into the society.

ACTIVITY REPORT:
Education
Knowing very well that School-related costs are the major obstacle for children in abject poverty to access education, we are continuing to work for and vigorously demand for orphans educational rights and attain high standards of education for all Ugandan children providing them other necessities of life on regular basis so as to become better people in great nation and be able to serve their families and the society.
I take this opportunity to say that our candidate class children O’Level and A’ Level have started doing the end of year exams we have 248 candidates have started the final exams and other 352 are sitting for promotional exams.
I therefore humbly request our dear Donors, partners and well-wishers at Global Giving, The River Fund, friends from local and Global to join me as we wish our children great success in their Examinations.

Challenges
During our visit to school this quarter to see how the children are faring at schools we found that environment our children studying in is not all that good, most classes has no school desks (furniture) the children sit on the floor. The numbers of children per teacher is outnumbering, each class has over 120 instead of 35 per teacher as recommended by ministry of education. This would contribute to poor academic performance, poor hygiene at school.

Needs
Based on our findings during the visit, there is great need to scale out the resource base to create better way of providing these children with better learning environment.
There is need to have these children in one central place, in this we propose to build a primary and kindergarten school where we can take close care and support while at school.
School uniforms and scholastic materials are the basics a child needs to enable them study.

Conclusion
I give my sincere regards to all our donors at Global Giving, The River Fund, Uganda government, local leaders and all well wishers for supporting our cause of bringing hope to the vulnerable community we serve most especially the young generations.

I remain yours faithfully,
Onyango Joseph
Executive Director
RARUDO