Working alongside local partners in Uganda, we’re removing the barriers that prevent children from accessing quality education and building brighter futures.
Our work
Working alongside our local partners, we match children with sponsors and donors who help to alleviate the financial barrier to learning for local families. We also work to eliminate other barriers to learning such as gender inequality, poor health, poor housing, poor sanitation and poor nutrition.
Uganda
Uganda is a beautiful, fertile country in East Africa, bordering Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda and the DRC. With the Rwenzori Mountains to the West and the immense Lake Victoria at its centre, it is home to an abundance of wildlife including chimpanzees and gorillas as well as rare birds and butterflies. However, Uganda remains one of the poorest countries in the world. According to the World Bank, recent data indicates that 20.3% of the population lives below the national poverty line.
Whilst Uganda does have a programme for universal primary and secondary school, there are very few free, government schools in the country. Those that do exist are oversubscribed and under-funded and so ‘private’ education is most children’s only option. School fees and requirements such as uniform and textbooks are beyond the reach of most of the parents in the communities we serve. This perpetuates cycles of poverty within families. We seek to break these cycles by supporting children to attend quality schools and gain the skills they need to secure jobs through our sponsorship programme. We focus our work in the towns of Bombo and Nakaseke, Uganda.
Our primary-school age children mostly attend the primary schools that we have built, with our secondary-age and higher-education learners attending quality partner schools.
Way of Salvation Primary School - Bombo
Through the generosity of our sponsors and donors, our Way of Salvation Primary School in Bombo, opened in February 2015 and was completed in 2018. It now provides an education for over 200 children from local families.
Partner Schools
Once our students have completed primary school, they continue their education at one of our partner-secondary schools. We also have students who have continued to higher education at university and vocational college.
Great Hope Primary school - Nakaseke
Following the closure of two schools in the area, local families were struggling to find a place for their children to be educated. Having made do with makeshift classrooms at the back of the church building, the staff and children of Great Hope School in Timuma, Nakaseke were then delighted with their new school building. This first phase of the school had five classrooms and was completed in 2018. Phase two added four new classrooms and a main hall and opened in 2021.
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The School Feeding Programme
We provide nutritious and well-balanced meals to every child in our care, supporting their overall development and ability to learn effectively. Our school meals also foster a sense of community and belonging. Children come together to share a meal, creating an inclusive environment where they can learn, grow, and forge lasting friendships. This vital initiative has made a profound impact on the well-being and academic performance of all our students.
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Medical Support
In 2010 we took our first medical team to Uganda. As well as seeing our sponsored children we ran several free, open clinics for the community. The medical missions became an annual part of our work and typically treated around a thousand patients in two weeks.
During the annual medical missions, we frequently came across patients who needed ongoing care. Medical partners helped to provide the costs of treatment, medication, tests and transport to the hospital for as long as support was needed.
We also established several disability support groups and encouraged these groups to meet regularly.
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Social Housing
Through our ‘Stepping Stones’ project, we were able to build three community houses for families in crisis offering a safe living environment whilst they get back on their feet.
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Enterprise groups
As students come to the end of their sponsorship programme, our goal is to enable them to provide for themselves and their families. For some children, their education has been sufficient for them to get a well-paid job, but others sometimes need some support to help them set up their own businesses.
