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.