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School Development Projects include building permanent structures for schools, such as classroom buildings,
latrines, kitchens, passive water systems, cement floors, and dormitories.
In addition, classroom resources, such as desks, chalkboards, and student slates are high priority projects.
These development projects support currently existing rural village schools in Uganda.
These schools already have strong human resources in place, but lack the ability to generate capital for building projects.
TRUE Africa commits to raise the funding necessary for each building project's supplies (such as cement and bricks),
while the villagers pledge the manual labor for the project (such as clearing land, hauling water, providing food for workers,
and the actual construction).
latrines, kitchens, passive water systems, cement floors, and dormitories.
In addition, classroom resources, such as desks, chalkboards, and student slates are high priority projects.
These development projects support currently existing rural village schools in Uganda.
These schools already have strong human resources in place, but lack the ability to generate capital for building projects.
TRUE Africa commits to raise the funding necessary for each building project's supplies (such as cement and bricks),
while the villagers pledge the manual labor for the project (such as clearing land, hauling water, providing food for workers,
and the actual construction).
Buyomba Primary School Projects - Immediate Needs
Fundraising Progress: $0 of $8,000 Funded
Construction of the Buyomba Boys Dormitory is almost complete! We need your help outfitting the dormitory with bunk bed frames, mattresses, and mosquito nets! A dormitory for young boys who are living in vulnerable life conditions is critical to their personal safety and academic performance. While the need for girls to have safe housing, particularly after entering puberty, is easily understood, it can be difficult to see how vulnerable and needy boys also require safe and secure housing. While girls are most often exploited sexually, boys are most often exploited for hard physical labor or forced combat participation as child soldiers (in boy children as young as 10 years old). We believe that all forms of child exploitation are unacceptable, and we seek to provide ways in which vulnerable girls and boys can avoid the pernicious lifelong impact of exploitation. A new dormitory for up to 60 boys attending the Buyomba Parent’s Academy Community Primary School would provide housing on-site under the safety and supervision of the teachers and leaders of the school (who also live on the campus). While the Buyomba primary school has a number of children who are sponsored by TRUE Africa, access to the dormitory is open to any child needing the safety, extra care and academic opportunities provided by living on the school campus.
Construction of the Buyomba Boys' Dormitory is almost complete!
We need your help to outfit the dorm with bunk beds, blankets, and mosquito nets. Please consider making a donation of Ugandan-made, locally purchased items:
Mosquito Net for Buyomba DormA mosquito net--an absolute necessity--protects a child from Malaria and other diseases and increases the number of days a child is in school. |
Betty, 3" Foam Mattress DonationA mattress gets a child up off of the cement or dirt floor and protects a child from burrowing insects. It also helps improve learning at school by providing better quality sleep. |
Double Bunk Bed Metal FrameQuality metal bedframes are more stable, allow stacking with generous open space for each child, and last far longer than traditional wooden frames. Metal bedframes also allow more contact points for arranging mosquito nets. |
Buyomba Primary School Projects - Ongoing Needs
Buyomba Community Primary School is a small village school on the shores of Lake Victoria. The parents of the village wanted to provide education for their children, so they formed a tiny stick and mud schoolhouse several yards off the shore of the lake. One of the village farmers donated the land to the village for the school, and this same generous man has continued to donated more land to the village as Buyomba Community Primary School has expanded over the past 8 years. The families in the village understand how important education is, as the vast majority of the adults in the village are illiterate peasant farmers. Their dedication to helping their children and grandchildren gain access to an education is the driving force behind the amazing story of this little village school!
Buyomba in 2010, when TRUE Africa decided to partner with the local village council and principal:
Teaching at Buyomba Community Primary School:
Improvements made to Buyomba Community Primary School, through the partnership of TRUE Africa and the local families (slideshow):
Fundraising Progress: $2,500 of $5,000
Chalkboards and slates are rare resources in schools in Uganda. Chalkboards and slates are a valuable additions to classrooms and schools, as they are a reusable resource, unlike costly paper. In addition, a chalkboard allows the teachers to write words and draw pictures for the children to see, instead of relying on lecturing alone. Children's slate boards let students practice writing and drawing, record lectures, and study at a fraction of the cost of paper. TRUE Africa would like to make sure that every classroom at Buyomba has a teacher's chalkboard and a slateboard for each child. You can also make a donation of just chalk, too!
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Fundraising Progress: $900 of $4,000 Funded
Buyomba Community Primary school offers a hot lunch to all students each day. For most children, this is the most filling meal of the day, and for some, it is the only meal of the day. Mothers of the students take turns donating and preparing food for the children. If you ask any Ugandan child what their favorite food is, you will always get an excited, "Posho!!", which is corn grits, cooked with water over an open fire. Other common foods served at lunch are cassava root, fish, and beans.
The current kitchen is just a dirt clearing on the side of the school. Mothers fetch firewood and bring their own pots to prepare the meals. TRUE Africa would like to help provide the construction materials needed to build a covered kitchen area with a small storage room, and then supply the kitchen with pots, stirring paddles, and dishes for the children. We would also like to stock the kitchen with bags of rice, beans, and posho. While TRUE Africa provides the building materials, the village agrees to provide manual labor, food for workers, and fetch needed water to mix cement. Investing in a school kitchen ensures that every child is able to eat a hot meal each day. Please consider making a donation to the Buyomba Community Primary School Kitchen now!
The current kitchen is just a dirt clearing on the side of the school. Mothers fetch firewood and bring their own pots to prepare the meals. TRUE Africa would like to help provide the construction materials needed to build a covered kitchen area with a small storage room, and then supply the kitchen with pots, stirring paddles, and dishes for the children. We would also like to stock the kitchen with bags of rice, beans, and posho. While TRUE Africa provides the building materials, the village agrees to provide manual labor, food for workers, and fetch needed water to mix cement. Investing in a school kitchen ensures that every child is able to eat a hot meal each day. Please consider making a donation to the Buyomba Community Primary School Kitchen now!
Children waiting in line for food and water at school
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Young girl with her cup that she uses for both water and posho porridge
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