Uganda

Our primary school has developed greatly in the last few years. To continue to grow and improve the education of our children, COTN Nursery and Primary School would like to begin a school band.  

Research has shown that people who are involved in music education see an increase in their academic performance. Our children in Uganda are very involved in singing and dancing, but have had limited opportunities to learn band instruments. We would like to change that in the near future.  

Since 2013, our primary 7 students have embarked on a 3-day field trip (called a “study tour”) to visit areas of Uganda many of our children have not yet reached. We are praying that 2019 will be no different.

To enhance the learning done in school, the teaching staff would like to take students to Jinja, Kampala, and Entebbe for a field trip. 

In Jinja, the students are able to see and learn about the River Nile and see the actual point where the Nile River begins. 

With rapid growth at our school in Uganda, we are quickly realizing the need for many small projects to ensure quality education and health for our students. This is one of those projects.

We are blessed at COTN's nursery and primary school to have purchased many textbooks for our pupils. While we have done our best to keep them well, it has been difficult to do so as we don’t have a proper place to keep them.

In addition, our primary teachers have begun to see the benefit of reading aloud to children often. The library would be a wonderful place to take the children and read stories to them and let them explore reading story books on their own. 

This project has been funded! Thank you!

In February of 2015, we opened our secondary school in Uganda, Marani Honors High School. Since then, we have been operating without textbooks.

The teachers and students have been creative in finding ways to get information, but it is time for us to add textbooks for our school. Over the next few years, we want to add books gradually until we have a complete set.  

In an effort to move our schools in Uganda toward 100% sustainability, we are seeking a partnership with Teach A Man To Fish (TAMTF). Through this partnership TAMTF will work with our staff and teachers to develop businesses (up to 8 businesses) that will be run by the school with the purpose of funding future operational costs.