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
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.
Ssenkaali Godfrey, the recipient of the first Quench and Connect university scholarship graduated from Uganda Martyrs University last November with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethics and Development Studies. As you can see from his commencement photo, he was extremely happy to have attained his goal. This term, he is now serving as a ‘Quench and Connect Graduate Fellow’
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