Nyakabungo Girls Boarding Secondary School
Sponsored Girls
Good education is something that most of us in the UK just take for granted. That everyone can go to school, that teachers will turn up to teach. However, in Uganda, despite Universal Secondary Education being available, it is often the teachers in the government schools who are discontent, waiting many months to get paid and therefore don’t turn up to class. Nyakabungo Girls Boarding Secondary School is a government aided boarding school, where the teachers are more incentivised. Boarding is essential as most of the girls live many kilometres away in often difficult to reach villages.
We now sponsor 40 girls at the school, all of whom come from very poor families and many have sad stories to tell; fathers who have problems with alcohol, mothers who are sick, girls who have many siblings that are being looked after by an aged grandparent. Even one girl whose parents were both dead and who has been looking after her two young siblings by herself. All of them are trying hard to scrape a few shillings together, often by working on the land - either theirs or someone else’s.
By sponsoring these girls, we are giving them a better chance in life, and we are grateful to everyone who is part of this.
If you would like to find out more about sponsoring a girl, then please do get in touch.
