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Aug 11, 2021, 10:46 AM
Praise did amazingly well in her Primary Leaving exams, coming top out of all our candidates. We hope you enjoy her video message for all our supporters! 
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Jul 21, 2021, 2:10 PM
Despite the challenges of the past 18 months, the latest cohort of primary leavers have smashed previous Child of Hope records in their primary leaving exam!
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Feb 23, 2021, 3:58 PM
With many of our children not returning to school, we have increased visits to the children at their homes. Co-ordinated teams of education, health, IGA and welfare workers visit children every morning so that each child is seen at least once a month...
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Feb 11, 2021, 9:47 AM
As the primary leavers enter the final month before their leaving exams, Child of Hope has set up temporary boarding arrangement in school...
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Oct 20, 2020, 4:56 PM
Exam classes are resuming serious study for their respective exams at both the primary and secondary schools.
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Oct 15, 2020, 3:19 PM
Today, our two candidate (exam) classes Primary 7 and Secondary 4 re-opened following government approval at both sites (with glowing reports), but no news yet on when the other classes can return.
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Sep 24, 2020, 11:55 AM
Bernard Wandera was selected as head teacher for our all-new Gill Sherlock Secondary School because of the quality of his leadership skills...
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Sep 21, 2020, 2:25 PM
As with all schools in Uganda, our two schools closed early in Covid-19 - now we’ve heard that just the two candidate classes (Primary 7 and Secondary 4) will be allowed to re-open on Oct 15...
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Jul 22, 2020, 4:10 PM
When the country went into Covid-19 lockdown, many teachers in Uganda lost their income. Some directors of private schools are even selling their premises to service the bank loans they had secured to run their schools.
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Jul 9, 2020, 11:47 AM
A new disadvantage for the children in Namatala slum is being unable to access the government’s TV-based learning programmes during the Covid 19 lockdown. To overcome the problem, teachers are making home-learning visits to the Primary 7 learners, who are due to take their primary leaving exam at the end of the year.