SCHOOLS

St Zoe’s Primary School, Mubende, Uganda Primary, Nursery and Boarding
- Started 1999
- HUGS has funded most of the buildings (about 12), water catchment, internet café, and currently sponsors 9 children
- 550 children attend
- Since opening over 1000 children have attended
- Results in the Primary Leaving Exam at year 7 are generally in the best 5% in Uganda
St Zoe’s Secondary and Vocational school, Mubende, Uganda Secondary and Vocational to O Level
- Started 2007 and completed 2011
- HUGS has funded all the buildings, including vocational wing, carpentry and textiles with help from other charities.
- Years Senior 1 to 4 and capacity c.150
- Children have to change schools to do A levels
- The school has extensive farmland to help feed the children

Good Shepherd School, Fort Portal, Uganda Primary School for children with special needs. There is also a school outreach programme, supported by Improving Chances, where handicapped children and parents are brought into the school for therapy and vocational training
- Started 2007 and completed 2018
- HUGS has funded most of the school building programme and supports some revenue costs each year
- The school can teach up to 150 children with 25 on the outreach programme
- The school has extensive farmland to help feed the children, it even has a fish farm
- There are excellent vocational resources

St Gabriel’s Children’s Home, Fort Portal, Uganda Is part of Good Shepherd School
- Home for abandoned or orphaned children
- Started in 2017 completed in 2018
- HUGS and Bury African Outreach have funded the buildings
- Currently home to 20 children

Asili Girls Secondary School, Lira, Uganda Girls Day and Boarding Secondary and Vocational school
- Started in 2014 and building work continues today
- HUGS has funded all the buildings and services and equipment including a science block
- The school is currently operating up to O Level with about 195 attending. The aim is to extend this to A level in the future
- Vocational and laboratory facilities have been provided

St. Therese’s School, Rukira, Rwanda Primary school and Nursery
- Started in 2009 and completed 2011
- HUGS has funded most of the buildings and equipment for the school, and paid for school meals for the youngest children
- With the associated nursery school there can be around 600 children attending
- The school is closely linked to a vocational school which is on the same site.

Little Shepherd School. Rutunguru, Uganda Primary school and nursery in a remote area
- Started in 2015
- 350 children attend, and numbers are increasing, with a need for boarding facilities
- HUGS has funded the building of 7 classrooms, water catchment, latrines and sports field. HUGS funded the development of a coffee plantation which will pay for 20 of the most impoverished children, a year, to attend school


St. Francis de Sales, Nursery School for deaf children, Jinja, Uganda Special needs school
- This is in the planning stage and will focus on helping children with hearing and eyesight problems
- Started planning in 2019, Fund raising continues
PROJECTS include:
- Partnering the Organization of Parents of Disabled Children (OPDC) to build a special needs school in Jinja
- Helping to build the Asili Girls Secondary School and Vocational Centre in Lira
- Expanding the facilities at Little Shepherd School at Rutunguru
- Continuing the sponsorship of c.70 students, primary, secondary and university
- Supporting the higher professional development of teachers
We have been involved in:
- Building 6 new schools that educated over 1,300 children in 2019
- Sponsoring primary, secondary and university students
- Providing teacher training
- Paying for school meals for reception classes
- Giving sports and play equipment
- Ensuring malaria protection for residential children, by providing hundreds of mosquito nets
- Assessing sight and hearing problems
- Paying for sight treatments and hearing aids
- Vocational skills training opportunities within school
- Funding the creation of an income generating coffee plantation
- Flattening a slope to make a football pitch
- Funding latrines and sanitation
- Providing an IT lab at a secondary school
- Paying for water catchment facilities so children do not have to carry water long distances
- Teacher exchange programmes
- Supporting a women’s cooperative to help them earn money to educate their children
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