If you are reading this, you have probably bought some greeting cards. Many thanks for your purchase. So far we have raised about $300 most of which has already been spent on the school.

The first thing we bought was 100kg of maize flour which is being used to cook porridge for school lunches. We also met with the parents and figured out how much it would cost for the semester for lunch daily. The semester cost is 3500USH which is less than $2/student. The parents are currently paying this and the maize flour helped them get started, get a cook lined up, etc.

We have also bought 8 hoes to help expand the school garden as well as 6kg of bean seeds so they can interplant maize and cassava.

Additionally, I have bought about 20 books for the teachers to use to help improve their teaching. These are books most of the private schools use and the teachers requested them as they have older books that are not as good. I also bought glue, markers, posterboards, colored pencils, crayons, chalk, balls, 4 magnifying glasses, magnets and iron filings as well as a chalkboard sized geometry set. So, the teachers are decked out and ready to go. I still have a bit of money left and will use that as the needs arise.

Already the teachers are saying that the mood in the school has improved as children are eating during the day and are performing better in the afternoons. Last year about half of the kids did not "pass" the Primary Leaving Exam at the school which means they cannot continue on to Secondary School (about 8th grade and up) and must either repeat P7 or cannot continue in school. We are trying to raise these test scores and keep more kids in school longer.

Thanks so much for your help in doing this. I will take pictures shortly and post them up!
~Dana

St. Noa Buusubizi Demonstration Primary School

St. Noa Buusubzi Demonstration Primary School is located near Kinene, a rural village approximately 7km from Mityana, Uganda. There are 204 students at the school in grades P1-P7. The primary school is a public school and is funded by the Government of Uganda and part of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) program. Students are not required to pay school fees, thus the student population is primarily the rural poor who cannot afford the school fees of better private schools.

There are a number of needs at the school include no drinking water due to a lack of means to carry, store or treat the water. Additionally, many students do not eat during the school day due to food insecurity and inability to pay less than $9 US per year for porridge at the school.

The school does have land that can be cultivated to raise food for the students or funds for the school. However, the school does not have tools or seeds/seedlings to start a garden.

The school also has a small library that the students visit to read and look at books. However, all books are in English and thus cannot be read by those in lower grade levels, as they do not speak much English at that time. Books in the local language of Luganda would like to be purchased for the school.

A craft program has recently been restarted at the school to help children learn the local crafts of Uganda. These crafts will be sold at Speech Day to also raise funds for the school.

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I am a Peace Corps volunteer working with the school to improve the health and education of the students at the school. Students are being taught about health topics such as hand washing, nutrition, malaria, and HIV/AIDS prevention. We have also built tippy-taps- hand washing stations that use local materials.














Here are a few pictures of the students and the school grounds.