UG 10 - GIRL SCHOOL
Project Location
The school is located in the central region of Karamoja, in the district of Napak, located in northeastern Uganda and on the border with Kenya. People devote themselves more to pastoralism and a little to agriculture, but the irregularity of the rains means that crops are often lost. Climate change in this area has been detrimental as there is no alternative to water from the sky. Poverty is currently structural and endemic. Now there is some hope of improvement as the new road built by the Chinese, which connects Moroto with Soroti, facilitates communications and transport.
In this context, the school has worked for more than fifty-five years effectively helping to spread the idea that school is a mandatory step for all forms of development and laying the foundations for access to a profession of many women who now, achieved this goal and freed from a life of poverty, support the idea of the right for women to a paid profession which is achieved only through education.
There are many women who, thanks to the school, have achieved a certain economic stability and care for the family by providing not only for the basic needs, but also for the education of children, thus laying the foundations for their future no longer tied only to land and livestock.
Project description
The school currently has 1040 students enrolled. The average daily presence in school is 950/960 students. The school is full time from third to seventh grade according to ministerial regulations. Parents are asked for 39 euros per quarter for those residing in the school (420 pupils in classes 4-7) and around 8 euros for day students, with the aim of ensuring the good functioning of the school and the food necessary for both residents and to the dailies.
However, some parents are unable to pay this amount due to poverty. This reality causes financial constraints to the school that make it difficult to pay the salaries of school workers such as cooks, custodians and maintenance staff. All non-teaching staff come from the local community and from a real situation of poverty.
Therefore, this project aims to support the payment of workers' salaries. This will allow us to ensure that the school provides the necessary services and ensure the smooth running of school activities.
Objectives
- Ensure effective performance of all school activities
- Provide affordable education by not requiring parents to pay high tuition fees
- Motivate non-teaching staff to provide necessary services
- Give education to all girls enrolled, without neglecting those who can not afford to pay because of poverty
Beneficiaries
Direct: 1,040 pupils, 22 teachers, 16 school workers
Indirect: families and society
Referent sister for the project: Sr. Saba Ailai Nashih
Project's costs