This summer, when we visited St. Denis Secondary School in Rakai district, we saw the new borehole that the students are now using to get clean water. The Head Teacher Natulaaya Juliet thanked us for giving the students good health from drinking clean water. She told us that previously, before the borehole was drilled, students suffered from typhoid and dysentery
In June, we travelled to Uganda to visit schools that had received new boreholes. This was a very special trip because I was accompanied by my daughter and my four grandkids! It was amazing to share with them all that I love about Uganda. Each one assimilated, absorbed, and embraced the culture in their own way, and they learned what
A new borehole was drilled last month at St. Edward Kkingo Secondary School in the Masaka District of central Uganda. The villagers in this peri-urban region work as small-scale peasant farmers or traders in small road-side shopping areas. In the past, 205 students learning at this school had to walk to a valley one kilometer from the school to get
A new borehole was drilled at St. Matthias Mbuye Vocational Secondary School in the Rakai district of southern Uganda, near the border with Tanzania. The local rural area has typical villages with farmers and pastoralists who support the school. There are 618 students studying at O Level at the school. This school is rather unique among secondary schools in Uganda
A new borehole was drilled early this year on the campus of Bata Secondary School in the Dokolo District of northern Uganda. Most of the people in the region are peasant farmers. The school was founded in 1983, as a government-aided secondary school, as part of a government pledge to provide secondary education to vulnerable children in the northern region
A new borehole was drilled at the end of 2022 on the campus of St. Paul Secondary School in the Sironko District of eastern Uganda. The school was established in 2001 to serve students in the Sironko and Bukeda districts who cannot afford to attend expensive schools in the Mbale region. Enrollment has grown steadily, and currently there are 376