Students are in their last term of the school year and are ready to end the year strong! Thanks to you, the girls don’t have to miss any school days because of their periods, and will be able to keep up their grades just like the boys. Sometimes it can be difficult for girls to keep up in school after they begin their menstruation cycle. It’s common for girls to remain at home during their periods and can miss 3-6 days of school every month because they don’t have the proper sanitary napkins. Missing that amount of school every month can negatively affect their grades, despite their best efforts to keep up. If their grades suffer they might be forced to drop out so they can be home to help their family with the daily chores.
Every girl at Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project is provided with sanitary napkins and are able to stay in school all month long! The girls are also developing a firm confidence that they did not have before they were provided with sanitary napkins. They no longer have to use unsanitary or uncomfortable methods for caring for their periods like leaves or old clothing. They can stay in school, concentrate on their academics, and succeed.
Thank YOU for giving YOUR GIRLS the proper feminine products they need to stay in school month after month!
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Your girls are back in school after their term break and excited to start the second term of the 2016 school year! During the break there were many activities that went on at NVSS, specifically for the Secondary female students. Several speakers, who are role models in the community, were invited to speak with the girls about the importance of staying in school, setting goals, and sex education. There was also a career guidance workshop at the Blue Lupin Library to discuss the various career opportunities that are available after graduation.
Counseling sessions were held as well to discuss the importance of having an education and graduating from school. Some of the girls need extra encouragement to stay in school and concentrate on their studies because they feel torn between attending school versus being home to help their families. When these girls are in Primary school they go home every day and can help out in the evening and weekends. Now as Secondary students, they live in a dorm and are at school for three months at a time. They aren’t home every day to help with chores such as cooking, cleaning, fetching water, and helping take care of younger siblings. However, THANKS TO YOU, more one-on-one time can be spent with these girls to provide guidance to them about the importance of staying in school!
Your support makes a HUGE difference in these girl’s lives. Thank you for believing that girls deserve the same opportunities as boys! Want to make sure that these girls continue to stay in school? Donate today.
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Thank you for giving YOUR girls the education they need to have the futures they deserve!
The girls you are helping will never be able to put into words how thankful they are for the love and support you show them. You are giving them the priceless gift of an education. They are going to grow up to be successful, independent, intelligent women because of you!
A significant tool to enhance their educational experience is the new computer lab that they now have access to, thanks to you. The computer lab will give girls the computer skills and knowledge that are needed to succeed in the digital world we live in.
You have also given them more access to books by providing additional e-readers for them. Your girls now have access to over 7,500 books all because you want to help educate them and see them succeed! The new e-readers exposes them to more literature and helps them to further their understanding of technology. These girls are getting an education that they could only dream about before. Their futures are filled with endless possibilities because you believe in them.
Thank you very much for your love and generosity you give these girls!
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Little Shirah struggled to hold back tears as her teacher told her that she had to leave school. She tried not to look at the other children--her new friends--but she felt them stare at her. They all wore nice school uniforms. She was still in her dirty dress and bare feet.
Shirah wanted so badly to stay at school but her teacher just shook her head. You have to pay your fees to stay at school. You have to have books and pencils. Even though she was very young, Shirah knew that her teacher might as well have asked for a brick of gold. Her mother could never afford to send her to school.
Shirah ran home and cried on her mother's lap. It's hard to imagine what a mother tells her daughter when she learns that the world isn't kind. As much as her mother loved her, she could not fix the pain in Shirah's heart.
"Sometimes I think I had the worst life in the world."
That is how Shirah describes her life then. Her father had died from HIV/AIDS and her mother couldn't provide for their young family without him.
Without school, Shirah's future was laid out in front of her. Most orphaned girls grow up in poverty. They tend to get married young. Their children are less likely to go to school. They are trapped in an endless cycle of poverty.
Thankfully, Shirah's life took a different turn. A small primary school opened right in her village. It was free and it was meant for HIV/AIDS orphans like her. She was one of the lucky children who got to go to Nyaka Primary School.
She told us "I got a chance to put on shoes and have free education, which I never believed in my life."
She learned to believe again. She worked hard to do well in school and you were there to help her whenever she faced trouble. Last year all of her hard work paid off. She was admitted to Vancouver Island University (VIU) on a full-ride scholarship.
Shirah is an amazing young woman and we know she will do amazing things for the world. Her success is only possible because she you gave her the opportunity.
Thank you!
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Your girls are so grateful for the gift you have given them. Education is the key to their success.
Many girls in Uganda have the dream of pursuing a career they are passionate about. The girls who can achieve this dream benefit from more choices in their lives. They are able to get married later. They tend to choose to have fewer children. Their children are more likely to go to school.
We are always reaching to open more doors for girls in careers that have been closed to them because of sexism and discrimination. Girls have been kept from pursuing jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (called STEM fields). That is why the science labs at your new Nyaka Vocational Secondary School are so essential to your girls' success.
Recently, we finished construction on your biology and computer labs. These facilities will give your secondary students access to resources that are virtually nonexistent in rural Uganda. They will have computers with internet and a biology lab that has no rival in the entire region!
The girls you are supporting at Nyaka Vocational Secondary School will now be able to show their community what girls are capable of when you invest in them. They will have a great foundation of knowledge to make them successful in high school and university.
All of this is possible because you have supported your girls.
Thank you!
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