A new borehole was drilled in March on the campus of Buhehe Senior Secondary School in the Busia District of eastern Uganda. Busia District is located at the border with Kenya, and is near the northern section of Lake Victoria. This school was established in 1990. Recently, after administrative changes, the school has nearly doubled in size and now 467
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
Ssenkaali Godfrey was our first university scholarship recipient and graduated in 2014 from Uganda Martyrs University with a bachelor’s degree in Development Studies. Since then, he has been working on local development projects in his home village in the Rakai District, near the border with Tanzania, in southern Uganda. He has a lot of energy and is a true entrepreneur,
A new borehole was drilled at the end of 2020 on the campus of The Vision Secondary School in the Lira District of northern Uganda. This school was established in 2012 in a region of Uganda that is still struggling to recover from years of civil unrest. After peace came, local citizens and parents worked together to build the school
We want to give you an update on the struggle with the pandemic in Uganda. Fortunately, Uganda has been able to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus quite well, and to date there have been only ~40,000 infections among the 45,000,000 citizens of the country and less than 350 deaths. Hospitals have been able to treat patients without overload.