HUGS is a UK registered charity which started in 1995 and has raised £300,000 to assist local leaders in rural Uganda to build their own schools and to create opportunities where they would not otherwise exist.

The schools we support have helped well over a thousand children go to primary or secondary school but the real focus of our work is;

• At Kagoma, near Mubende we are working with the Kagoma Education Development Organisation and the St. Zoe's School leadership team. The school which opened in 2001is also supported by parishes in Turkenfeldt in Germany. St. Zoe's with nearly 500 children and has been achieving some of the best school results in the region.
• We aim to provide children with a really first class primary and secondary education and over the next few years to be able to provide the sort of vocational skills which will prepare young people for useful and productive lives.
• We have been tracing our early students to see what they did after leaving St Zoes in 2003;

In 2003 25 of our children took their primary leaving examinations and this was the first group to do so. There were 6 girls and 19 boys.

Of the 25, there were 20 who went on to secondary school and sat their senior 6 examinations at the end of 2009 and they are waiting to join higher education in Universities and other colleges. Of the remaining 5, one girl could not be contacted, and one could not continue her education for family reasons. One girl went to Rwanda and took her A level there. Two boys are in technical colleges. We were really encouraged to see these outcomes.

St Zoe’s is organizing and Old Students Association

• At the Good Shepherd School in Fort Portal, our partners are the Banyatereza Sisters who work in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. Here we have helped to build the first and only school in the west of Uganda for children with special needs. We have 72 children attending the Good Shepherd School which specialises in helping children with learning disabilities

• Over the years we have also been able to help schools at Makenke near Kampala, at Hoima and at Jinja

Our long term aims are to focus on the first two and work with the local teams to make these schools among the best in the country. We want to be able to provide strong vocational programmes for the children so that we cover both academic and non academic needs.

Developing our 7 year plan with supporting staff accommodation, school farm, vocational skills resources and the establishment of bursary support for University places will require us to raise about £70,000 per year.

At Fort Portal we hope to be able to make the school a centre of excellence and a resource for outreach to the wider Toro region. Children with learning disability are so often completely ignored in many parts of the world and Uganda is no exception.

"Education is the great engine of personal development"   Nelson Mandela

News January 2010

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By January 2010 we have supplied over 300

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