Project Report
| Oct 9, 2020
Schools Due to Open after 7 Months COVID Lockdown
By Andrew Martin Niwagaba | Project Leader
Warm greetings to all our donors, friends and well-wishers. Wherever you are, I hope you are well and keeping safe from the COVID 19 Pandemic.
As you might be aware by now, Schools in Uganda have been closed since mid-March 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic. After 7 months of the COVID 19 lockdown, schools in Uganda are set to open on the 15/10/2020 for candidate classes. The rest of the children other than the finalists or candidates will stay home until the government of Uganda pronounces itself on the issue. We are excited about the news of the re-opening of schools given that the Four candidates in Primary Seven and One candidate in Senior Four (Ordinary level) are expected to report for school. The challenge with this development however is that the school fees pressure is back on the urgent to-do list. We have school fees arrears from the third school term of 2019 to the first school term of 2020. No amount was paid at the beginning of the year except for Joseph who was joining the secondary school for the first time.
Apparently, the new term will be the second school term of the year. The communication from the schools (circulars) has stresses/emphasizes the need to have paid all the school fees balances from 2019 and the first school term of 2020. The expectation is that we would have to prepare to deal with the second term school fees too. This has left us in an awkward situation. The reporting to school by our candidates remains in balance. This is further complicated by the need to provide for food and other home and scholarly essentials. We are hopeful that with your help and support, we will be able to deliver on the promise to these children. I hope that you are able to continue supporting the project so that the children re able to go to school. Knowledge is power and the future depends on it.
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Jun 16, 2020
Dealing With The Unexpected COVID 19 Challenges
By Andrew Martin Niwagaba | Project Leader
Uganda has been under lockdown as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic since mid-March 2020. As a result of the lockdown, the children have not been able to attend school or participate in sports events. We are adhering to the guidelines and trying to Keep Safe. I hope you are Keeping safe too. The Ministry of Education suggested homeschool through Television and radios and sadly, the children have not benefitted from that because we practically do not own a television set. As a result, the children are reading the books they have with them and engaging in house chores such as house cleaning, gardening, and of course have time to play.
In the meantime, the food situation during this COVID 19 pandemic period remains dire. The children have breakfast, lunch, and supper at home as opposed to the school term period when they have one meal at home. We have had to devise ways through which we can meet the food need during this period and generally still require more food and other household requirements. The budget shift to provide food to the children has resulted in accumulated electricity and water bills. More still, the end of the COVID 19 lockdown will certainly resurrect the school fees need for the children as schools open. For now, we are however focusing on surviving the COVID 19 lockdown.
Your continued support to the project as we continue to provide for and shape the lives of these children's future remains paramount to the project's success. I beg that you continue to offer to us the much-needed support.
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Mar 30, 2020
We are Keeping Safe, Keep safe Too
By Andrew M Niwagaba | Project Leader
Greetings to all our friends, donors and well-wishers. We hope you are keeping safe during this "chaotic" period of the global pandemic of the Corona Virus. We too are keeping safe.
Over a week ago, the government of Uganda set decrees that ushered in lockdown for 30 days. Schools were closed and everyone was urged to keep home so as to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. We were not prepared for this eventuality and neither was the world. As a result, the children are currently at home and not attending school. We are following the set guidelines to the core so as to keep safe. The new guidelines and the current situation has however affected us in a number of ways. We now require more food and household supplies since the children cannot have lunch at school. Lunch during school days is never part of our budget unless someone is sick.
In the meantime, the children have been attending school without the school fees bill being cleared. Like I have stated in the past, we strive to maintain healthy working relationships with our suppliers given that we genuinely lack a steady flow of funding and depend largely on our donors and goodwill for project funding. Whereas the fees problem has been temporarily suspended due to the school closure, It still needs to be solved as soon as or before normality returns, This remains a big challenge too that needs to be urgently dealt with.
As we try to keep safe and under lockdown, we worry that hunger might wipe us off before the coronavirus as our food stock dwindles by the day. We thus call for your help and support. We are determined to ensure that the children are supported and we can only achieve this with your help. You are welcome to help us keep safe while you too are keeping safe. Thank you for your support always
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