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, […]

In February, our third scholarship student, Kilili Debo Roy graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing.  He will now serve a required year of service as an intern and then find work in the health care industry in Uganda.  Kilili survived multiple school lockdowns during the pandemic and managed to […]

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 […]

A new borehole was drilled in the Spring on the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in the Nebbi District of northwestern Uganda. The local community is largely peasant farmers, who have little income. The school was opened five years ago in an old church to give parents an alternative to another school in […]

Typically, Uganda has two good rainy seasons and farmers can easily grow food.  In the past two years, this has changed.  People in some regions in Uganda are struggling right now with supplies of food and rising costs of crops such as maize and beans.  We are hearing of the troubles particularly from our schools […]