Education Uganda Project #34500

Give Early Education & Hope to Ugandan Children

by Act4Africa

Project Report | Jan 6, 2021
Teachers' home visits keep children's learning on track

By Jennifer Akullu | Lead Teacher

You will know from previous reports that, in line with government guidelines and COVID-19 lockdown, Kathy's Kindergarten was sadly closed for most of 2020. However, thanks to your donations, our teachers have continued to support the children at home: initially providing them with home learning packs and regular visits to check on their health and wellbeing, providing food aid when necessary to keep up with their nutrition. More latterly, the children's home learning has been boosted through 1:1 tutorial visits from our dedicated kindergarten teachers.

Act4Africa’s Ugandan Lead Teacher, Jenifer Akullu tells us:

“The program of food distribution started in May where children would be given eggs, sugar, flour and milk directly taken at home for them to share with their families and during these out reaches of food distribution teachers realized that the pupils were missing a lot as most parents did not have the time or skills to help the children. Their early achievements in class would easily get to zero since next year is far and this prompted the school to adapt the home learning program for pupils of Kathy’s Kindergarten. The teachers organized a learning program in pupils’ homes, after consent with their parents and this was supported by both parents, Act4Africa and teachers making the exercise easy to roll it out.

"Teachers visit pupils’ homes upon appointment prior to the visit. The 3 teachers would be assigned different homes with packages to guide the pupil’s learning. This has been a routine activity for the children and teachers which has helped strengthen the teacher child relationship, keep pupils learning and improving their ability of class work execution. This program has been a great success as the children’s performance in tests and class work is so good. We believe that by next year we shall have automatic promotions to those who will have scored up to the school pass mark next year.

"These learning programs have basically been a one-on-one teaching and parents are so grateful for this initiative that has kept children busy and learning from their own teachers and at a free cost unlike other children who has been receiving such learning from other teachers from different schools at a cost.”

Peter, a father said, “Thank you so much teachers for your tireless support to our children, I love the love you have for our children and how passionate you teachers are about teaching these children of ours.”

Olivia, a mother, exclaimed, “You people are a real deal, my son is so blessed to have you people as his teachers, thank you so much Act4Africa and Kathy’s Kindergarten for being my child’s saviour during this pandemic, my child has not missed a thing about learning, thanks to you.”

Meanwhile we got to hear from our very own kindergarten child himself. He delighted us with his words: “My teacher is a super-hero, my school is the best in the whole world, because my teachers follow me up to home so that I can learn, I want to be like my teacher because she loves teaching me and my friends.”

His mother also continued by saying “You people feel my heart with greater joy because everything you do for our children is wow!”

We could not achieve this without your support, so thank you for providing these children with a "WOW moment" in 2020! We do not yet know when we can re-open the Kindergarten, but we do know that your donations will help us bring education to over 50 children at this difficult time. Please donate to give hope and education to the next generation.

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Sep 10, 2020
Our parents would like to say THANKS!

By Jennifer Akullu | Lead Teacher, Kathy's Kindergarten

Emillianah

"You people show up just when we are about to lose hope!"

Greetings from Mayuge! Time has passed and still we are in lockdown in Uganda. We hear this week that it is unlikely that our kindergarten children will be permitted to return to school for the rest of this academic year. Whilst we put plans together to support their learning and development at home, we wanted to pass on some expressions of gratitude to you, our GlobalGiving community, for your support at this most challenging time for us all.

Here is some of the feedback from our parents regarding the food and learning packages we have been able to provide, thanks to your ongoing donations.

Daddy Mary says:

“Thank you so much for your kindness and reaching out to us during these hard times, this is so lifesaving, my family is so encouraged. Who would give all this stuff in this critical time if they didn’t love and value you. Thank you for loving us every day.”

Mummy Hatimah says.

“Thank you for always bringing smiles to our faces, you people show up just when we are about to lose hope. I appreciate how much you love our children and our entire family, thank you a million times, just know we love you people too so much.”

Angela Mummy Kato and Waiswa says:

“Thank you for coming through for us during this difficult time. My family appreciates everything you have given to us since the beginning of this pandemic. We are so happy for our eggs and sugar it means a lot to us.”

Mummy Emillianah expressed:

“I am so much grateful for everything you have been giving my family ever since the lockdown started. I pray that God should bless Kathy’s Kindergarten and its supporters for their kindness.”

Your donartions at this time are more vital than ever, as we endeavour to support our community in their hour of need. Thank you for you ongoing support.

Hatimah

Kato

Waiswa

Mary

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May 28, 2020
HOME LEARNING DURING LOCKDOWN IN MAYUGE, UGANDA

By Jennifer Akullu | Lead Teacher

Greetings to you, here is a quick update from Kathy’s Kindergarten amidst the ongoing pandemic.

As directed by the government, all schools have been closed since 20^th of March because of the ongoing situation.

The lockdown has posed several challenges to both the children and their parents. Not so many of the children’s parents are in position to read and write, which makes it a really hard task for some of the children to learn while at home. Some parents get so caught up with household chores and growing food in their gardens, hence giving less or no attention to the child’s learning whilst at home.

Some of the homes are not conducive to enhance a child’s learning because they are too close to the roadside and hence there is a lot of disruption to children’s concentration.

Since the schools were closed unexpectedly, we decided as a school to provide the children with the first set of home learning materials that would keep them busy and we are glad to hear that parents are trying their best to help our children learn while they are home.

After consulting the parents on the progress of their children with the home learning materials provided, they gave us a positive response that the children were picking up, later on, we gave them the second set of home learning materials when the lock down was extended to cover the period that they were to be at school before holidays.

In this month of May, they are supposed to be in holidays already and so we did not give them any learning package for this period because we expect them to be resting from schoolwork for a while. Instead we gave all our kindergarten families a tray of eggs to help during this difficult period. The lockdown and the floods destroying crops has resulted in some families having nothing to eat. This gesture was appreciated by all our kindergarten families.

Meanwhile, in case the lockdown is still extended even after the holiday period we hope to continue providing them with the home learning materials to help them not to fall back in their education, and I believe one day with a great teacher is better than a thousand days of diligent independent study. The children were with us for a month plus before lockdown and therefore we are so hopeful that, if we keep providing them with the home learning materials, even while they are away from us, they will not fall back in their education.

Thank you to all our kindergarten teachers for their hard work in keeping our children educated during this difficult period and a special thank you to all our donors for making it possible for us to help the children and their families.

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