PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN RAKAI UGANDA

God's grace mercy and peace to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! The first quarter of 2026 has been an eventful one! God has blessed us with more and more children seeking to learn and help with daily living necessities. During the academic term we had 280 students and our staff has grown to 14 teachers and 5 staff for a total of 19! We also have 4 students who have moved on to secondary schools that live on our campus all year round and that we pay for their fees to attend the secondary school (we are only a primary school at this time). We also have 50 children who live at the school during the academic terms. We also were able to purchase 3 solar powered light units so we can supply some light at night and when needed. The Rakai district also recognizes us as a school so our children can compete against other schools in sports.

We have a great many needs too! We have been growing so fast that the donations have not kept up! Our teachers's house needs flooring badly, we need a well, and many of our temporary classrooms need replaced with more permanant buildings. We also need to build dorms as the chidren who stay have been placed in a temporary classroom building to sleep in at night. 

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God bless you!

Keith 

Keith C. Layman

Links:

• Website
• GoFundMe

As we come to the end of 2025 we thank God for HIS faithfulness! We finished the last academic term in early December with all of the students being promoted to their next grade level. We are currenlty averaging about 280 students an academic term! We get children from several villages in the area, many of whom are orphans so we not only provide free eduation but meals and daily needs as well. In between academic sessions we on average have 50 orphans stay on campus as they have no where to go! 

Our campus expanded as well but it is very primative! We built more classrooms from trees we cut from the jungle in order to accomodate the increased number of children coming each session and the 50 who stay on campus inbetween sessions. We were also able to build a new pit latrine for the campus. Some of our other successes include the ability to buy 7 acres to increase our campus! We are utilizing that land to grow maize and coffee to support the children and potentially the school. We also have some chickens and goats to supply food for the children.

God is bringing so many children to us who need daily necessities and an education that we can't keep up financially! We are in great need of a well as our rain water catchment system is also utilized by the village and no longer provides enough water for the school. And we have no power source currenlty and need to add solar to the campus as well. Since every thing raised goes to the school and its operations, we also need to raise the funds to send our US team over to Uganda to meet government officials, assess the needs and future needs of the school, plan the next 1-5 years of the school, and much more! Please pray for us and consider sharing the excess blessings God has given you with us so we can break the chains of poverty, lack of parental/custodial support for numerous children, and little to no education through the love of Jesus Christ, meeting daily life needs, and education!   

Links:

• CAWSIU website
• GoFundMe