SCHOOL:-KIWUMU PUBLIC SCHOOL
ADDRESS:-P.O.Box 25611,
KAMPALA-UGANDA
Tel:-+256-779 897713
E-Mail:kiwumups@gmail.com
CONTACT PERSON
Joseph Lukyamuzi (Headteacher)
P.O.Box 25611
Kampala-Uganda
Email:jolukyamuzi@yahoo.com
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Kiwumu Public Primary School was started by 4 volunteers in 1998 as a private public school with an aim of providing education opportunities to the disadvantaged, orphaned,children from financially strained homes and the young ones who could not walk to distant schools daily.It was registered by the Ministry of Education the same year.We started with 23 children and currently enrollment has risen to 1,258 pupils.This increase in population has culminated into limited space for classes,library and recreation.The school is based on Christian faith pillars and dispensing both primary and vocation education.
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SCHOOL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
•To join the United Nations’ struggle of fighting against illiteracy among the people, hence enabling children to acquire functional literacy, numeracy and communication skills.
•To enable children under our guidance and care to forge a purposeful life.
•To identify and develop each child’s potentials
•To create future job opportunities for the children , the educationists and community at large in order to avoid redundancy , drug abuse and crime
•To develop a friendly education system that will help parents and children to stop walking very long distances looking for good schools.
•To develop constructive cultural, moral and spiritual values that will enable children to live a descent and useful life.
•To design extra-curricula programs that will enable the children to learn how to protect and appreciate the environment.
•To research into problems that affect adolescence learning (especially girl child).
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
This project is intended to benefit over 1,500 children of the following categories:-
*Children from low income homes,
*Those with disabilities,
*Those from financially strained homes and
*The orphaned children.
SCHOOL PROGRAMMES/ACTIVITIES
•Child Development.
The first priority in promoting effective child development is to ensure that children survive the early years when they are most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.
•Growth Monitoring to ensure steady growth
•Child Counseling and promoting individual/group/peer support
•Family Life Education
•Children Social Adjustment and Development
•Mentoring and parenting
•Clinics/Hospitals Medical Treatment
•Crisis Intervention
•AIDS Education and Prevention
•Information/Referral Service
•Religious Development
USE OF THE GRANT
The grant will be used to put in place more dignified infrastructures cmprising 2 block structures in order to create space for bigger school offices ,classrooms , recreation/examination hall and school library/ICT
NEEDS
30,000 Bricks( All at ₤ 1,800 )
Clay bricks amounting to 35,000 are estimated to be used for the whole project.5,000 of these will be made by the children in their brick making project.5 tonnes of sand will be provided by the community through our community leaders.
120 Bags of Cement (All at ₤1,029 )
Cement worth ₤1,029 is needed to construct two blocks.An administrative block (Office,Library/ICT,recreation/main hall and Stores )and a Classroom block of 7 classes
500 Pieces of timber(All at ₤1,000)
500 pieces of timber for roofing,windows,door frames and doors are needed.Labour has been volunteered by our communiy carpenters
5 Tonnes of gravel aggregate stones(All at ₤200)
Gravel aggregate stones are needed for work on the floor.
100 Kilogrammes of Nails(All at ₤100)
100 Kilogrammes of nails in assorted sizes and lengths are needed for the roofing and shutters.Labour has been volunteered by local artisans in the community.
300 Iron sheets:(All at ₤4,500)
300 iron sheets are budgeted for the two new blocks (administration & classroom blocks )
Comments (3)
Sep 03, 2011
Joseph says:
Hello out there,friends and welwishers, I bring you greetings from Kiwumu Publi...Hello out there,friends and welwishers,
I bring you greetings from Kiwumu Public School in Uganda.I also bring you requests for funding of our school infrastructure to make it more habitable for the teachers and children.Please, together we can make the school better and that will be our contribution towards improving the standards.We need that one dollar you can raise,it can make a big change.God bless you.
Joseph Lukyamuzi
Sep 19, 2011
Joseph says:
Our work does not stop here. There are still children who are learning in unsafe...Our work does not stop here. There are still children who are learning in unsafe mud huts. The Ugandan education system operates a policy where the cost of any new buildings must be met by parents. The parents that we met simply cannot afford to pay for these buildings. We are looking to raise the funds to rebuild Kiwumu Public schools as possible Eastern Uganda but we will need all the help we can get. This area of Uganda is particularly poor and does not receive the sort of publicity or funding that Kampala or other cities do. The only way schools can provide safe facilities for their children is community. these classrooms will not only accomodate basic education but will also be used for teaching aconstructive cultural, moral and spiritual values that will enable children to live a descent and useful life.
Joseph Lukyamuzi
Oct 28, 2011
Joseph says:
The study environment of the children at Kiwumu Public School is not child-frien...The study environment of the children at Kiwumu Public School is not child-friendly.Classes must be rebuilt to reasonable standards to give the children comfort.I have not been comfotable the times I have been at this school.