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Apr 27, 2018, 11:44 AM
A young girl aged around 8 or 9 years turned up at the school last week out of the blue. She and her younger sister seem to have been abandoned and their food had run out... 
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Apr 18, 2018, 11:00 AM
Our Impact Report  for 2017 is now available for download… it summaries our achievements during the year, plans for the future and brief financial details.
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Mar 29, 2018, 2:59 PM
Proud in their new uniforms: these are some of this year’s Primary 1 children, who are delighted to be dressed in their new uniforms made by Sarah the school tailor. 
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Mar 19, 2018, 4:39 PM
The health team has been de-worming at the school, a vital healthcare intervention that takes place here twice a year. 
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Mar 14, 2018, 4:11 PM
It is known that proper nutrition improves concentration in class, yet this is an impossibility for most rural families because of poverty and a range of challenges they face. Yet – as reported by Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper – councillors in one district have just passed a by-law to punish all parents who fail to pack a lunch for their school-going children.
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Mar 7, 2018, 2:51 PM
Staff in the nursery section at our school have been developing highly-effective approaches to teaching literacy and numeracy – and this is enabling the children to achieve measurable greater success.
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Feb 27, 2018, 11:31 AM
Our school retention figures are amazing - we mention this because the problem of children dropping out of school is extremely common. Our school drop-out rate is less than 1%, while official Ugandan primary school dropout rate is 47%.
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Feb 22, 2018, 4:15 PM
We have harvested a good crop of sweet potatoes that we grew locally as one of the ways we are creating a degree of sustainable income in Uganda itself. 14 large sacks of potatoes were harvested and sold, with profit of around 40%.
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Feb 14, 2018, 3:29 PM
In our nursery baby class we use activity-based learning rather than rote learning, which means that the children are actively engaged...
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Feb 6, 2018, 3:14 PM
All last week our older children attended a special workshop to help teach them various life skills, including vital understanding regarding sexual issues.