New Term and lots Happening

The second term has begun for our primary and secondary students. We now number 55 sponsored students. It has been a good year. Thank you to all our wonderful sponsors!

We have a new sponsor liaison in the village of Bwindi who will oversee the communications between our sponsored students and their sponsors. Welcome Evelyne Habasa!

We also had a representative of Bwindi Community Program visit Watoto School and the secondary school to 14 of our students. We will be posting photos as we receive them.

All Students at Bishop Comboni now Sponsored!

We have successfully found sponsors for all twelve recent graduates of Watoto School. The very generous donors who have stepped in to help us educate these worthy kids are truly appreciated.

We continue to look for support for our younger students. The primary students are posting good grades and working hard. We have 37 students at Watoto school and they need support. Contributions of any size will enable Bwindi Community Program to continue to educate children who have no other means of financial support.

National Visiting Day

Next Saturday, March 26th, will be a special day for boarding school children in Uganda. Parents, relatives, friends and caretakers will visit their children for a tour of the school, a visit to the garden and conversations with teachers. The Director of Watoto School, Byamugisha Ignatius, will take care to make it a special day for our sponsored students. Not all have relatives or caregivers to bring sweets, cakes, chapati, etc., so he will show them a little extra love. His day will be long, since he will attend to the primary children early in the day and spend the evening at Bishop Comboni with our secondary students. How lucky we are to have this devoted man caring for the children!!!

Watoto's Beautiful Vegetable Garden

A very generous donor has provided funds for a vegetable garden at the school. There is spinach, beans, etc. now for the chldren's meals and the opportunity to work together on a wonderful learning experience. This sustainable donation will enhance the childrens' lives with more nourishing meals and a chance to take gardening skills into their future lives.

Secondary School Begins!

We are excited to have our exceptional students enter a new stage of their education. The first graduating-Level 7 class at Watoto School produced some stellar National Exam scores and is taking the next step. We have eight of the twelve graduates sponsored to enter Bishop Comboni Secondary School. We need sponsors for four hard-working kids who deserve to be there too. The cost to sponsor one child for a three-term year is only $500US. Help us keep them in school!

Ampeire Simon is the Best Student in the District

The national test scores are in! One of Watoto's first graduating class posted the highest score in Kanunga District. The District has a population of 204,732. To say that we are proud of him is an understatement!!!

Watoto School has proven to be the best school in the District with all of the graduates of Level 7 this year achieving Firsts. It has become a model school that Uganda seeks to emulate around the country. Simon is already sponsored, but we still have five students from this class to place with sponsors. Contact us for information.

A Poultry Farm at Watoto School

We have just wired the funding for a poultry farm to Watoto School. A very generous donor who desired to provide something sustainable for the school has contributed enough to establish a poultry farm. We are blessed with the opportunity to provide better nutrition for the children while also having a wonderful teaching tool. The possibility of the farm producing revenue for the school just adds one more benefit. We want to thank Joyce Nott for her kind and generous gift.