SCHOOLS
St. Francis de Sales, Nursery School for deaf children, Jinja, Uganda Special needs school


- Specialist school for children with hearing loss and other disabilities
- The latest of the HUGS funded schools
- Built in 2020 during lockdown
- Initial intake 90 children with disabilities
- Opening March 2021
- Set in 3 acres of beautiful land for future development, 13km outside of the town of Jinja
The school has a particularly safe design with a central quadrangle and protected level walkways. The school is built in partnership with the Jinja Organisation of Parents of Deaf Children, a grassroots collective of parents and professions concerned with the wellbeing of children with disabilities.
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
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.
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
PROJECTS include:
- Partnering the Organization of Parents of Disabled Children (OPDC) to build a special needs school in Jinja
- Funding new science equipment and sports kit at the Asili Girls School
- Expanding the facilities at Little Shepherd School at Rutunguru and funding a new dormitory to allow girl students to safely overnight
- Continuing the sponsorship of c.70 students, primary, secondary and university
- Supporting the higher professional development of teachers
- Sponsoring student doctors, midwives and social workers
- Support to the Lira Babies home (for abandoned babies)
- During COVID pandemic we provided funds to help feed hungry families
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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