Education Uganda Project #40163

Support and Educate Vulnerable children in Uganda

by Uganda Hands for Hope

Project Report | Jan 20, 2021
Hard at work during hard times at Hands for Hope

By Tai Kuncio | Project Leader

One child's individual home project

Greetings from Uganda!

It has certainly been a turbulent time at Hands for Hope recently. Not only has the COVID situation been worsening in the country but the violent protests surrounding the election last week and the subsequent government imposed internet outage made for some scary times for everyone. We are back online now after almost a week but unfortunately schools are still not permitted to open due to the increasing COVID risk.

We were able to welcome back our candidate class (Primary 7) yesterday but there has still been no indication of when we will be able to bring the rest of our children back to school. In the meantime, we have been continuing with our home visits, making sure that every child has at least 1 home visit from a teacher every week. When a teacher visits a child, they provide them with curriculum-specific school work and check up on their creative individual projects as well. Many children have been working around the theme of environmental awareness and some have chosen projects based on renewable/recyclable materials. Many have been using discarded materials to make unique tools or fun toys as you can see in the photo.

The teachers also look out for and report any child protection issues they encounter to the social workers who also visit the slum every day to offer social support to the children and their families.

There's also a lot being done at the school site during this forced period of closure. We're in the process of building the furniture for our brand new secondary school so that it's ready for when the children come back. We are also putting the finishing touches on a new community safe space for girls where they will be able to discuss any particular issues they are facing. And finally, we have started looking for a reputable supplier who will be able to provide us with computers for the lab we plan to open with some of the funds raised during the Giving Tuesday campaign! Thanks again to all who contributed!

Please keep in touch and stay safe!

Finishing touches on our new girls' safe space!

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Dec 2, 2020
A HUGE thank you from Uganda Hands for Hope!

By Tai Kuncio | Project Leader

Nov 3, 2020
HfH is gearing up for Giving Tuesday - one month away!

By Tai Kuncio | Project Leader

Our P7 class learning about our COVID guidelines

Dear Supporters,

We hope that you are staying safe and healthy.

COVID restrictions are still limiting our ability to hold in-person classes but thankfully we have been able to find other ways to support our children and their families during this stressful time. Our graduating Primary 7 class was permitted to return last month as this is such a pivotal time for their education and we were very happy to see them. According to the Ugandan government's projections, we plan to re-open all classes fully after the new year.

In the meantime, our food distribution program is still helping our families survive this extremely difficult time when many parents have lost their already meagher incomes. Our teachers and social workers have also continued to visit all of the children at their homes on a weekly basis, ensuring that they know that they have our full support and making sure they are doing alright. In lieu of in-person classes, home workbooks are being distributed on a weekly basis. They are collected and marked the following week by our devoted teachers.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! With the holidays approaching, we're hoping that if any of you are considering a donation this season, please help us raise even more by timing your donation with Giving Tuesday (December 1st) when GlobalGiving will be giving out 1 million USD in matching funds. Our hope is that we'll be able to raise enough money on December 1st to jump start our plans to build out a computer lab for our children in 2021.

We will be sending more details about this incredible opportunity as the date approaches so please stay tuned!

As always, thank you for your continued support!

We hope to see you on Giving Tuesday.

Keeping everyone safe on site!

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