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Naigobya Orphan School Expansion |
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
In August 2007, funds were provided to build weather resistant classroom structures for orphans and children of families that could not afford the school fees of the public school. In partnership with the local church in Naigobya, the structures were built, teachers found, and supplies purchased. The school opened with three semi-permanent structures (timbers, tin roof, wood walls, and a dirt floor) and seven teachers serving seven classes.
Read the story about the beginnings of this orphan school
Students from the Naigobya Primary and Nursery School - November 2009
In the past three years, this school has grown from 50 students to now over 150! To accommodate the additional students and add an additional grade, the school leadership has asked us to help them add three new classrooms. The church/community pledges to provide timbers, bricks, and labor. They are asking us for funds for tin sheets and nails.
School rooms from the Naigobya Primary and Nursery School - November 2009
One of the challenges of the existing school shelters is the dirt floors (see above). The dirt floors allow chiggers (“jiggers” in Uganda) easy access to children’s feet as they sit in class. Chiggers are like a wood/deer tick (they feed from a hosts’ blood and then reproduce). However, Chiggers are much smaller than a tick, and they create an intensely itchy and painful boil. We hope to provide funds to install concrete floors in the existing and new classrooms.
The cost of the three new classrooms is $1,500, and cost of concrete floors is $3,700. The first priority is the additional classrooms. The current favorable exchange rate makes projects of this nature very cost effective. You could fund an entire classroom construction for $500, or a concrete floor for $410.
If you are financially able, would you consider joining us in this effort? We look forward to completing this effort and sharing pictures of the expanded/improved school grounds this October.
Thank you for your partnership, and keeping a place in your heart for “the least of these.”
Ps – Drilling of a borehole (clean water source) is happening this week in Ikumbya. We will send an update and post pictures as soon as they strike clean water!
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