St. Jude Burora Secondary School is located in the west of Uganda, in a small impoverished town. There are 300 secondary students and the campus is shared with a primary school that has 450 students. Most of the families that send students to the school are peasant farmers, existing on less than US$1 per day. The school had never had
St. Kirigwajjo Secondary School is located in the Kibaale district of western Uganda. Founded in 1997, it has grown to a student population of 900, with 600 boarding students. The school is the academic leader in the county, offering curriculum at both O and A level. 90% of students completing the national UACE examination qualify for future admission to university.
At the end of last year, we drilled a new borehole on the campus of St. Dominic Savio Secondary School in Masindi, in north central Uganda. Previously, more than 600 students there took their drinking water from a single pipe faucet that delivered contaminated water from an unclean source. Frequently, the water would stop flowing, sometimes for days, and then
At the end of last year, we reached our goal of $9000 for a borehole well at St. Anne Grace Secondary School in Nakifuma, Uganda! The contaminated spring that was serving as a water source for this school was drying up and students could barely fill their jerrycans because the water level was so low, as you can see in
Early this year, we reached our goal of $9000 for a borehole well at St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Kyankwanzi, Uganda! The well was drilled in late spring and in June we went to Uganda to see the new borehole. More than 450 students now have clean water to drink, and no longer have to fetch water from filthy ponds
St. Anne Grace Secondary School. When we visited this school in June, we learned that the algae-covered pond that students use for a water source is now drying up. As you can see in the picture, students can barely fill their jerrycans because the water level is so low. Because of this, often there is not enough water, even contaminated