Project Report
| Aug 29, 2019
Rain Coats and Books for Our Boarding Girls
By Carol Davis | President
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Carol with 6th Grade Girls in New Rain Coats
I just returned from spending five weeks in Uganda, including three weeks at the northern Uganda school where we have 13 sixth grade girls boarding. Through your support, as well as help from other donors, we purchased rain coats for each of the girls plus English textbooks and math sets for the new library. The girls can study in the library outside of class time each day. So it is very helpful having the textbooks readily available.
Books are very rare in Uganda, even at schools. We're quite excited that the school library is complete, and stocked with an inventory of 1800 books of all types for students in kindergarten to 6th grade. One entire shelf contains pupils' textbooks which are concentrated initially on 5th and 6th grade. We hope to expand this further next year.
Thanks so much for helping make the girls' learning more productive as they continue to study for their very important year-end exams in November.
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Students Using the New Agwata Library
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Jun 13, 2019
Your Support Helps 6th Grade Girls Board at School
By Carol Davis | President
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Happy 6th Grade Girls Boarding at Agwata School
The 2nd term of Uganda's school year began on May 27th. The Agwata School's 6th grade class has 13 girls in its class of 24 students. These girls are very appreciative of being able to board at school during this term. Your continued support makes it possible for all girls to board at school regardless of whether they have a permanent sponsor or not.
Your support helps pay for food and supply costs to support the unsponsored girls at school during the school term. There was a severe drought in this area of northern Uganda duirng the last half of 2018. This meant very little harvest at year end. Parents are struggling now to provide food for their families until the 2019 harvest later this year. This makes it especially important and valuable for the 6th grade girls to stay at school where they receive three meals per day.
Boarding at school is not a luxury. The students follow a rigorous schedule of studying while they board at school. This provides them ample time for extra lessons from the teachers as well as time to revise their notes and study with fellow students. The girls hope that their extra study time will pay off when they take their very important year end exams at the end of November.
Thanks so much for your generous contributions which help make this possible!
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Mar 14, 2019
You Help Girls Like Jully Stay in School
By Carol Davis | President
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Sponsorship Program Helps Jully continue in school
Thanks to your help, girls like Jully are able to stay in school--even when tragedy strikes. Jully was lucky. She was already in our sponsorship program when her mother passed away late last year. But many other girls are not so fortunate. With your help through this Globalgiving project, if we hear of a girl in our sub-county who suddenly loses a parent or guardian, we can step in and assist the family to keep the girl in school on a temporary basis until a more permanent sponsor can be found.
The ability to quickly respond in such emergency situations in many cases allows the girl to continue in school without interruption even when her family life suddenly changes. In Jully's case, we were able to place her in our boarding section at school since her new guardian was very overloaded and otherwise unable to send her to school.
We appreciate your continued help which allows even more girls to be helped immediately when they might be in the midst of a crisis and likely to drop out of school.
Thank you for making a difference in girls' lives!
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