Education Uganda Project #73036

BUILD COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR 620 VULNERABLE CHILDREN

by GABA HOPE FOR KIDS

Project Report | Sep 20, 2026
Your continued support helps build hope

By Kwagala Samantha | Fundraiser

Title: Your Continued Support Helps Us Continue Constructing The Community-Based School*

Dear Generous Partner,

Greetings from Gaba Hope for Kids.

Thank you for standing with us.

Because of your continued support, we have started constructing a community-based school. It is not a big building yet, but it is hope taking shape. For many children in Gaba who have no classroom, this school is their chance to learn in a safe and dignified place.

Why We Are Building:

- Children learn from crowded rooms and open spaces
- Learning stops when it rains or when the sun is too hot
- Girls have no private space to wash and change
- More than 560 children come, but space is very limited
- There is no safe place to keep books and learning materials.

What We Still Need To Continue:

- More bricks, cement, and sand
- Roofing sheets and timber
- Benches, tables, and mats for children
- Doors and windows for safety
- A small private room for girls

Your continued support is helping us lay one brick after another. Each brick is a child closer to a classroom. Each sheet is protection from rain.

This is not just a school. It is a community promise that every child deserves a safer space to learn.

We are building it slowly, with what we have, because the need cannot wait.

Please continue to walk with us. Continue to donate materials, share our story, or volunteer your time.

We are not asking for pity. We are asking for partnership to finish what we have started together.

With gratitude,

Gaba Hope for Kids
Transforming Lives Through Education

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Aug 30, 2026
Our construction program continues

By Kwagala Samantha | Fundraiser

GABA HOPE FOR KIDS (GAHOK)*

*Narrative Report - August 2026*
*THEME: OUR CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM CONTINUES*

*1. Introduction*
Our construction program continues with one goal: to give 600 unprivileged children from Gaba slum a safe, dignified place to learn. Started in 2019 in rented iron sheet rooms with 50 children, we now serve 600 children (Nursery to P.5) and continue building our permanent future on our 1-acre land in Wakiso.

*2. Why Construction Must Continue*
Current school in Gaba is not safe for 600 children:
- 3 temporary rooms leaking when it rains - children sent home
- No toilets - 600 children use bush / neighbours' latrine
- No fence - insecurity and land grabbers threat
- No kitchen - cooking in open for 600 meals
- Congestion - 100+ children per room

Without continuing construction, 600 children will lose their only hope.

*3. What We Have Done So Far*

*A) Land Secured:*
1-acre land in Wakiso purchased and titled - our permanent site for 600 pupils.

*B) Phase 1 - Foundation Completed:*
- Site clearing and leveling done
- Foundation for 2 classroom block (Nursery to P.2) excavated and built
- 5,000 bricks on site made by community mothers

*C) Materials Mobilized:*
- Community contributions: sand, labor
- Friends from GlobalGiving supported cement for foundation

*4. Construction Program Continues - Current Activities (August 2026)*

1. Raising walls for 2 classrooms - now at window level
2. Molding more bricks - target 10,000 bricks for completion
3. Fundraising for roofing, toilets, and water tank for 600 children
4. Engaging District Engineer Wakiso for building plan approval for full 600-pupil school

Work is done by parents - mothers carry water, fathers mold bricks. This is community ownership for 600 lives.

*5. What Remains to Complete Phase 1*

- Roofing for 2 classrooms - 200 children will move from leaking rooms
- Plastering & Floor - safe learning environment
- 3 Toilets stance - dignity and health for our girls and all 600 children
- Water Tank 5000L - clean water for drinking and cooking for 600

*6. Challenges Slowing Us*
- Heavy rains in Gaba - transport of materials hard
- Rising cement prices
- 100% donor dependent - we build as funds come, yet we have 600 to feed and teach daily

*7. Next Steps - September to December 2026*
- Complete walls by end of September
- Roofing campaign in October
- Commission Phase 1 in December and shift Nursery-P.2 to Wakiso as we build main site for all 600 children

*8. Appreciation & Appeal*
Our construction program continues because you continue with us. Every bag of cement you give is a brick of hope for 600 futures.

We appeal to our GlobalGiving family to help us roof the 2 classrooms before rains of November.

*"We are not just building classrooms, we are building futures for 600 children."

Thanks for being our amplifier and sharing our projects with friends and family God.

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Aug 12, 2026
Our building plan continues

By Nansubuga Bibiana | Fundraiser

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