Tropical High School, in the Iganga District of southeastern Uganda, received a borehole from Quench and Connect in 2020, during the pandemic. The borehole is functioning on campus, and when parents sent their children back to boarding school after three consecutive government COVID lockdowns, the enrollment nearly doubled since this school offered clean water to returning students.  Head Teacher Kato

Quench and Connect is working to provide the tools for effective science teaching to the Gayaza school. This year, Quench and Connect partnered with University City High School in San Diego in a project-based learning format that involved U.S. students in an international project: to equip science teaching labs at the school in Gayaza. “Project Lead the Way’ is an

Students in the Social Action Club at Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla CA collected many, many items for the students at the Gayaza school, and had a great learning experience about life in Uganda. Led by their energetic teacher/mentor Ms. Susan Minnicks, these middle school students worked on a year-long project to get donations from their fellow students of

In June, Quench and Connect wired funds to two of our project schools for computers.  Each of these schools had previously received support from Quench and Connect to set up science teaching laboratories for their students (funds awarded by the VWR Foundation, now the Avantor Foundation). The teachers at each school purchased items of small equipment for the teaching labs,

Recently, we received a letter from Mr. Ssewanyana Gerald, Head Teacher at Gayaza Cambridge College of St. Mbaaga, a secondary school in central Uganda that has received clean water and science teaching tools from Quench and Connect. Ssewanyana thanked Quench and Connect for health from access to clean water, and for funding for laboratory equipment, reagents, computers and textbooks. He

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