This Secondary School is located in the Kibaale District in western Uganda, in a small impoverished town. It was founded by the local parents, and the Headmaster Ntirenganya Vincent leads a dedicated team of teachers who provide O and A level curriculum for 461 students. Getting clean water was a particularly challenging problem at this school, since the nearest source
Heroes Secondary School is a private school that was established near a trading center in the Rakai District of southern Uganda. The local population are peasants and traders, since this region is dry and the soil is not conducive to growing crops. The school was established because only one government school was available that could not accommodate the student population
The Ministry of Education in Uganda mandates that science, mathematics and computer science must be taught in secondary school, but private schools lack the funds to buy the tools they need to teach these classes. In many cases, the class lectures are simply didactic oral lessons. Especially for subjects like biology, chemistry and physics, students need ‘hands-on learning’ which can