The School Results for 2011

Here are the regional school results for 2011. Although St Zoes only entered the system for the first time this year it came 3rd out of all these 28 secondary schools. Numbers are small of course because the school is not yet fully established. Some of the schools get dreadful results and this must be a great disappointment to the children and the parents. Lack of a good school really gives these children a huge disadvantage.


It is a very good result!

No	Name of School	No. of 1st Grade	1st Grade %	No. of 2nd Grade	2nd Grade %	1st + 2nd Grade %
1.	Sacred Heart  Seminary	15	60%	9	36%	96%
2.	St. Charles  S.S	37	37%	52	52%	98%
3.	St. Zoe Sec and Voc School	1	7%	6	42.8%	50%
4.	Kasenyi S.S	16	6%	30	11.0%	17%
5.	Silver steps	3	3%	5	5%	08%
6.	St. Joseph’s Kasambya	1	2%	10	20%	22%
7.	Mubende  Army	3	2%	10	6%	08%
8.	Madudu S.S	1	2%	4	8%	10%
9.	Light S.S.	2	1%	14	7%	08%
10.	St. Matthias Mulumba	1	1%	3	3%	04%
11.	Nabingoola  S.S	1	1%	2	2%	03%
12.	Kiyuni  S.S	0	0%	3	3%	03%
13.	Kitenga S.S	0	0%	4	5%	05%
14.	Bright  S.S	0	0%	2	4%	04%
15.	Kassanda  S.S	0	0%	4	3%	03%
16.	Comprehensive  Mubende	0	0%	2	4%	04%
17.	Myanzi  S.S	0	0%	5	6%	06%
18.	Mubende   Hall	0	0%	0	0%	0%
19.	Bagezza  Seed School	0	0%	2	3%	3%
20.	Highway Kiganda	0	0%	3	4%	04%
21.	St. Suzan	1	2%	12	24%	26%
22.	Kalamba	0	0%	2	3%	3%
23.	Kakungube	0	0%	1	1%	01%
24.	Bukuya  S.S	0	0%	0	0%	00%
25.	St Charles  Lwanga   Lwangiri	1	2%	2	4%	6%
26.	St. Mugaga  Kiganda	1	1%	5	5%	6%
27.	Butoloogo Seed School	1	1%	3	3%	4%
28.	Kiganda  High	0	1%		%	%
29.

School Results for 2011

We hear a lot about building schools in Uganda. But are they any good?  Just attending school is not enough. Children need to aspire to excellence and obtain good grades just like her in Europe.

St Zoes school year ends in December with major examinations for both primary and secondary. Good results were obtained again despite a dreadful year for drought and food prices and some children not being able to get to school.

The secondary school pupils take O Level exams and out of 20 schools in the wider region we were third with 50% of the children getting 1st or second grades. We did badly at computer studies but thanks to a benefactor we can now provide 5 computers for the children this term.

Two major buildings have been on hold for nearly a year due to a failed building contract. But this is now history and we are mobilising a new team to complete the 2nd secondary block and the first vocational block which should both be complete by the end of April.

You will recall that drought problems were a real problem in 2011. We are finalising quotations for a major piece of work which while mean sinking a 105 metre bore hole and equipping it with a submersible pump, local generator power supply, water distribution system, and overhead reservoir system. Hopefully we can fund this be the autumn of this year.

Readers may with to visit St Zoes or Good Shepherd one day. Do please let me know.

HUGS is entering a team in the BUPA Manchester 10K run on May 20th. Let us know if you would like to take part and of course bring sponsorship

Also for Golfers. Dont forget that on May 16th we have the Annual Golf  Event. Teams of 4 please and the entry fee is £240 per team. Email Charlotte on c.brinsley@rjw.co.uk

Sophie-Alice and Megan our Volunteers

Two more Project Trust joined St Zoes in September and this is an entry which they sent me to tell supporters what is is like.

Sophie is teaching Senior 2 English and Literature and Megan is teaching Senior 1 English and Literature. And together we are sharing Senior 3 English Language. We decided to start with Secondary teaching so that we both got used to African English and we were able to adjust our nice Yorkshire accents to make it easier for the students to understand.

When we first began teaching we both had quite similar difficulties in understanding how St Zoe's worked. We were both very puzzled when students would randomly stand up and leave the classroom without warning. At first we thought our lessons must have been really boring, turns out they just wanted to go for a 'short call'. It was also quite hard for us when a student would say "Madam, we have not understood" ten minutes before the end of a lesson, leaving us with no time to go back and explain.

Megan and Sophie Alice with on of the teachers

Sophie also has difficulties reaching the top half of the board. Although Megan found it hilarious, it was quite embarrassing for Sophie when she had to stand on a chair to write the mid term exam. It was even more embarrassing when she fell off the chair, much to Senior 2's amusement.

However, after the first few weeks, teaching gradually started becoming more and more natural. Megan has found that Senior 1 are understanding her much better now and are producing some really good work. Their mid term results showed that they had understood well and have been working really hard in their last term. Sophie has been trying to get Senior 2 to develop their creative skills, both in poetry and creative writing. Although hard work at first, they are gradually beginning to grasp the concept of imagination.

Megan in the school shop

We have also been trying to introduce a drama club for the students in their after school time. We had one really good and interesting session, however the following weeks it seems to have petered out. We're hoping to introduce it from the beginning of term so that it can be timetabled.

St Zoes Kitchen. This really is not good enough for the 450 children it feeds

We have been teaching in the still to be completed classrooms which has posed some challenges for both of us. It can be quite difficult for the students to understand and hear us over the noise from the classes being taught next door. One of Sophie’s lessons was interrupted by a herd of goats, followed by an even bigger herd of screaming primary children, as they charged past the classrooms.

As well as teaching, we have both had a positive experience of the school so far thanks to the very friendly and welcoming teachers and students. Senior 3 especially never fail to make us both smile. Next term we are hoping to begin being more involved in the primary section. We have arranged to help with Maths, English, PE and Art with various different classes. We are looking forward to teaching primary and getting to know more of the students. 

2012 Kicks Off with a workshop at St Zoe's

At the beginning of this year 2012, St. Zoe schools decided to launch a new beginning by holding a two-day in-house workshop for all members of staff, the teaching and non-teaching staff, for the primary, the secondary, and the soon-to-start vocational school. The event took place on Thursday 12^th and Friday 13^th January 2012, starting at 8.00 a.m. and ending at 6.30 p.m. each day.

On this first occasion, the main aims of the workshop were, among others: to remind members of their roles and responsibilities as well as their terms and conditions of service; to analyze and critically understand their job descriptions, and to discuss issues concerning the budget of the coming school term.

As point of departure the members of staff reminded themselves of the VISION, MISSION and GOALS of Kagoma Education Development Organization (KEDO) of which St. Zoe’s schools are but components. Thus, the VISION is to be a model and focused center of education, moral values and general development. The MISSION is to train an all round person capable of self-reliance. And the GOAL is to provide and promote quality, practical and affordable education, as St. Zoe schools uplift the educational standards of learners in the area and outside it.

The workshop then delved into the specific roles and responsibilities of a classroom teacher, a subject teacher, a section head, the school secretary, the school nurse and matrons, as well as the school farm manager, security personnel, support staff, and cooks.

This workshop was an ingenious innovation that involved the participation of all members of staff, except two who had travelled far for their Christmas and New Year’s holiday. The workshop was also conducted in a very cost effective manner, since there was no need to hire external facilitators. All the facilitators were from within the members of staff of St. Zoe schools.

The main challenges that were observed during the discussions revolved around financial limitations which many times have constrained the smooth running and further progress of the schools. Otherwise the workshop was evaluated by all participants as a great success which gave opportunity to everyone to express themselves in a cordial and friendly, but critical and constructive atmosphere.

As final resolution and way forward, the members agreed to help each other to implement what they had discussed, and to create an atmosphere of individual and collective responsibility to ensure the realization of the vision, mission, and goals of St Zoe schools and of KEDO at large.

HUGS Golf and Manchester 10K run

We have booked the Romiley Golf Course for the Annual Golf Tournament which as been such a popular event for the last three years.

The date is May 16th and it will be an 18 Hole Competition with breakfast on arrival, great prizes and dinner at the close.
Please put the date in your diaries or email Charlotte on C.Brinsley@rjw.co.uk to book.
We will be writing to golfers very soon.

And there are also places in the BUPA Great Manchester 10K Run. The run is on May 20th

Christmas in Uganda

Alex Tracey the author and Dominique Bryon the illustrator

HUGS would like to thank all who have bought the book ‘Christmas in Uganda’.

So far the money raised for HUGS is £1,000.

The feedback has been very positive and thank you to The Good Shepherd School, St Zoe’s School, Stockport College and to our author and illustrator. 

We hope to sell more books next Christmas. 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our readers. Do please use the comments box below to let me know your views on the Blog or what you would like to hear about.
Good Shepherd special needs school at Fort Portal planned for Christmas by every child (there are 120) getting one present to give to another and they were all placed under the Christmas Tree until present giving.

And as a special treat the Chairman of the local authority funded a special day out for the children to travel over the Mountains of the Moon (The Rwenzori's) to visit Bundibogyo which is the most western part of  Uganda and which borders on Congo.
There they visited the hope springs and met some of the race of Bambuti, who we call the pygmies.

We are planning for 2012 and will let you know what the ambitions are for the new year and also let you know how the schools did in the very important end of year national examinations which took place in December.

A Child is Born

I often remember a message I first heard from a very successful salesman. It went like this '.. the more people I meet the more sales I find I can make'. I think the same applies to opportunities. Meeting lots of people so often can lead to opportunities one would never have thought of.

HUGS worked with Sr. Theresa of the Banyateresa Catholic Sisters to build Good Shepherd Special Needs School.

The same order of sisters run the Maternity Hospital at Fort Portal and it has been possible to help a number of volunteers to spend time there over the last two years. The hospital with about 230 beds and 5 doctors and 7 midwifes delivers between 2000 and 3000 babies each year. We are looking to develop a twinning arrangement with St Mary's Hospital, part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust where about 7000 babies will be delivered next year.

Ruth and Jill who are both Paediatric Research nurses have just returned from Fort Portal and found it a wonderful experience. More later but these pictures were taken at Virika Hospital

The same group of Ugandan friends introduced HUGS to the Lira Babies Home, an orphanage in one of the most troubled areas of Northern Uganda. Sr Demmy usually has between 30 and 50 babies to look after and the generosity of HUGS supporters means that we have been able to fund about 20% of the running costs last year and next year. It costs about £15000 per year to cover all the costs.

My picture shows Sr Demmy with twins taken into the orphanage in the last few days. They are about one day old in the picture.

Although HIV/Aids has reduced very substantially in Uganda is is still a very serious killer. The Lira Babies home looks after many children who have inherited this condition.

 The picture show a group of helpers at Lira with 5 HIV youngsters.

We have had some great letters of thanks from our Uganda (and Rwanda) friends who want to tell you how much they appreciate the efforts and the money donated.

Christmas Thank You from Good Shepherd to all Donors

Thank you very much for your letter and Asobora Christmas book which made us very happy.  The Teachers and Children were so happy to read the stories of Asobora, Busobozi and Magezi, they made them laugh their heads off!  We take this opportunity to thank Denise for her tireless effort and initiative she has put in this project.

Please send all our thanks to the many donors who have helped to make our school such a wonderful and happy place.

Theresa

OUR DEAR DONORS,

Good Shepherd Special Needs School is the first school of its kind in Western Uganda.  It started in 2008 with 40 Children, this year 2011 the enrolment has increased to 120, and 11 Teachers.  Categories we have in this school:                               

• Visual speech and hearing impairments
• Physical impairment
• Learning problems and autism
• Communication problems
• Medical issues
• Hyperactivity

The school has taken its first few hesitant steps on the road to changing attitudes towards disability and setting itself up to educate or act as role model for the wider community. The Vivid examples are the photos I have sent you, Stella has down syndrome and severe intellectual impairment.  As in African culture Parents tend to neglect children with disabilities take it as a curse, so the story of Stella was very sad when the neighbours told me that her Parents keep her locked in the room, they don't want anybody to see her! 

 When I visited the family, Stella was a miserable child, she started crying when she saw me.  I pasuaded the parents and she started at our school, now is a happy girl is being equipped with practical skills and her Parents are also happy.

The same story with Derrick who can neither talk nor speak, he was also a miserable Child but now is happy as you see him in the picture.

We have a variety of activities as singing, dancing, drama, sports etc to make the children happy and feel at home.  More so they improve academically as they are given special, individual attention in class.  Again we thank you very much for your generosity and kindness towards these vulnerable children, because without your contribution we couldn't have managed as most parents are reluctant to pay school fees in time or  not to pay at all as they take these children to be useless, but we have tried our level best to sensitize and we shall continue as some have started coming up with positive attitude.

An Appeal for Water

Blog readers will know that the 2010 drought and the effect of climate change and inflation caused our schools major problems this year. Money which was intended to fund buildings and infrastructure had to be used to buy water and food at up to 3 times the normal price.

So although we have completed two water catchment projects at £34000 over the period since 2004 they have not been enough.

If the rain does not come them water catchment is of limited value.

We have therefore decided to fund a hydrological survey to see if we could find a water table somewhere below ground on our St Zoe site.

The results arrived on November 29th and are really encouraging.

We have been told that we can obtain 1500 litres per hour by sinking a borehole of about 105 metres deep, sink a pump which is solar powered, and store the water in a large overhead tank so that is can gravity feed to the school buildings. If we run the system for 5 to 10 hours a day this will be sufficient for everyone on the site. It will be a major breakthrough and of enormous vale.

It will cost about £28,000 and we are starting a special appeal to fund this.

It would be great if some of our donors could help. This can be done by;

• send a cheque to HUGS at 6 The Ceal Compstall Stockport SK6 5LQ
• direct bank transfer to our account. For security please email me for details although you will find that it is the same as your standing order.
• Or click HERE and use the Virgin Money Giving  (they charge us about 2.5%)

The picture shows the various elements of the project. 

Mosquito Nets

We have written before about the importance of mosquito nets and HUGS has funded the supply of these to our schools. But children still die of malaria. Sr. Demmy who runs the Lira Babies home has had a particularly tough time and she will be getting nets very soon.

But sometimes the well intentioned efforts of donors has a really perverse effect. Like the American celebrity who raised 1 million nets for the Central African republic. Fine while they lasted but all the local businesses making nets were put out of business.

And this story from Democratic Republic of Congo goes one step further .

Many lakeside villages in the mineral-rich province suffer from a high rate of malaria-induced child mortality. Sleeping inside these nets is the best way to avoid mosquito bites and malaria. But this laudable action created a human and ecological catastrophe.

An international medical NGO provided mosquito nets to a poor village in the Upemba region of Katanga.

As the mosquito nets were free and abundant, fisherman used them as fishing nets. Given their extremely fine mesh, not only were fish removed from the lake but all other forms of micro-fauna and micro-flora too. The lake gradually became covered with a black scum. Villagers lost their sources of livelihood and food supply.

The HUGS Christmas Book

HUGS has been busy working in partnership with Stockport College to produce a lovely Children’s Christmas Book. The story is quirky and the illustrations delightful.
It tells the story of Asobora the monkey finding out about Christmas and lighting up the Christmas Tree in Uganda.

There is a serious purpose also, as all the profits from the sale of the books will go to continue the work of the charity. The book would make a lovely present and cost £6.99
To order email
denise.e.ead50@gmail.com

From our own Correspondent on Radio 4

If you can get BBC Ipayer Radio programmes on your computer it really is worth listening to the 10th November edition of From our own Correspondent which was at 11.00 am.
It starts with the poster slogan we all saw during our last visit. Prosperity for All was the message.
And then to hear the message about the cost of a matoke banana rising from 100 to 300 Uganda shillings each. Matoke is really a major part of the staple diet of everyone. Petrol costs up by 30% and you begin to see the sort of pressures which the people have been having.

It is getting a little better now that the rate of exchange has dropped back about 10% but don't think our eurozone problems stop at Europe. They have had the costs increases driven by exchange rates but also those caused by drought too. That's why this year HUGS has had to divert funds from capital projects and spend the money helping to provide food and water for the children. But we think that we will be back on programme this year and complete our secondary and vocational schools and also build new latrines and hopefully start the water project mentioned in the last blog. Thanks for all your continuous help.

Climate change and water

Climatic changes are happening in Uganda. On the one hand there is more erratic rainfall in the March to June rainy season, bringing drought and reductions in crop yields and plant varieties; on the other hand the rainfall, especially in the later rains towards the end of the year, is reported as coming in more intense and destructive downpours, bringing floods, landslides and soil erosion.

Over the last 100 years the frequency of drought has been increasing quite dramatically and a recent Oxfam Report on Climate Change in Uganda provides ample evidence that this is a real issue. The report is called Turning Up the Heat and can be read on the Oxfam site.

Most of us thought that the recent drought in Somalia and Kenya had not reached as far as our schools in Uganda. Sadly that was not the case. 2011 has been a really tough year and for the first time since St Zoe’s opened 10 years ago we have had to put back spend on infrastructure just to make sure that the children has food and water. This has often had to be purchased at prices several times greater than the normal prices.

In 2003 we had our first Water Harvesting project thanks to the support of the Bishop family and other donors. A part of this was the creation of a 250,000 litre underground storage tank with roof rainfall catchment. This was very successful but we had to augment the plan with a major extension and more tanks in 2010.

Water catchment is great if there is any rain to catch. This year there has been very little. Fortunately we have strong evidence that there is a very good water supply about 120 metres below ground level on land we purchased last year as part of our farm which feeds the children.

Now we are going to commission a hydrological survey to make absolutely sure that this is true before we invest up to £30,000 in sinking the borehole, installing the pumps which are solar powered, and erecting a large overhead storage tank so that the school buildings can be gravity fed.

This blog will keep you informed. Our Trustees decided that we will need to start a special appeal to help to fund this work but lets wait until we are sure that the water is there before we ask for help. We should know this in the next few weeks.

HUGS 10th Anniversary Dinner

October 23rd was a bit special. Fr John had come all the way from Nairobi to join 145 HUGS supporters to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the opening of St Zoes Primary School.

Gorton Monastery, a World Heritage Site in Manchester was the venue. And what a venue. If you haven't seen it then do take time out to visit.

We had a wonderful evening and the speeches were quite short!

Sorry the picture had to be me. All the others were rather dark and would not look good.

Tragedy in the Congo

Some of you may have heard about the recent tragedy in the Congo and one of great supporters has told me a little about it;

Dear all,

my friend James is a Drama professor and specialises in using Drama to help people in war and conflict. he has recently been working in the DR Congo and the recent massacre killed the people he has been working closely with - see message below. They are raising money to support the bereaved families who have lost their only wage earner. please support this and pass it on to anyone who might be interested

bw

Louise

Your can read more about it at the web site


www.childrenincrisis.org/DRCAPPEAL

Those who lost their lives were doing what we are doing. Bringing education to the people in a country which is notorious for the killings over so many years.


It would be wonderful if we could help and HUGS Trustees will be thinking what we might be able to do to help.

Sorry for the Silence

Isn't it odd. Knowing that I would not be able to work for a while as I recuperated from my knee operation I had visions of all the thousands of things I would have time to do from home. Just shows how little I knew about the "getting better" process. Very little energy and no real ability to sit and concentrate on anything for long. And this blog got a bit neglected!

I will be much more understanding if the future!

Our volunteer Rebecca has posted loads of pictures of her12 months in Uganda on her picture site and it you want to take a look it is at http://rebeccanixon.traveljournal.net/gallery/

The serious drought and massive inflation in Uganda has been a major challenge to all our schools and we have delayed some building work in order to make sure that the children and staff have food and water. We have already had two substantial water catchment projects at St Zoes but now we have pretty certain knowledge of underground water on land we now own we may have reason the start a new project to drill down and find ways of pumping it to the school.

The Lira Babies home has been visited by some wealthy and generous Americans who are keen to fund an extension of this wonderful orphanage. Sarah Woodward, niece of Trustee Chris Bishop has also raised a lot of money in New Zealand for the same cause and HUGS is helping with the money transfers.

The builder of our secondary and vocational blocks at St Zoes has proved to be really dreadful and although he has been paid a lot of money he disappeared from the site in April and has not been seen since. This is quite a setback but over time I believe we can recover and refinance the completion of the work by other means.

Things like this remind me how lucky we are!

Progress at St Kizito's near Kampala

We have not told our supporters much about St Kizito's Primary School outside Kampala and which HUGS supported for many years.

Our visit in 2009 was disappointing. Lots of happy children but the state of the school, lack of classroom stimulus and dangerous school site was not good. We met the school PTA but found that it was still being run by a wonderful retired head teacher and not by active parents.

 The school was not progressing. We felt that we might be doing no real good and did not support the school for two years or more.

When Denise and Peter met the new head teacher, Immaculate, in early 2010 she told us that the parents were not engaged and simply said to her "why worry, the overseas donors will provide"

We said we would only support if we could see real change in this attitude.

The following dialogue has been constructed to tell you where the school is at today.

“Immaculate tell us your first impressions of St. Kizito’s Preparatory School Makenke.”

 Immy:  I am so happy that St. Kizito’s was founded; I am also impressed by the good buildings and donors who help us so much.

Question:​ Does the school set standards for honesty and integrity?

Immy:​ Yes, I think St. Kizito’s has continued with that vision of her founders the church of Gayaza Parish that is to aim at very high moral standards.

Question: What about academic achievements? How are you doing?

Immy:​ Well, for academic we enjoy the services of a hard working and caring academic staff and this is not empty praise. There is always academic work to be done in form of homework practical exercise, tests and exams making St. Kizito’s a real fountain of a primary leaver.

Question:​ How about on the side of the power house, the meals, we hear the staple food is not bread and butter nor “rice and peas” but posho and beans, tell us about that.

Immy:​ Well just look at me and may be look at other children, the decision will be yours on whether we are well fed or not, but as you see our skins are shining and very smooth.

Immy:​I wish to thank our parents, our teachers and helping Uganda schools (HUGS) of for the tremendous work they have done which has benefited and continues to benefit many children of Uganda and even beyond.

​Great thanks to Rev. Fr. Mayinja Francis who helps the school in a special way

Immaculate is making a big difference. The new PTA is helping, parents are more involved and the parish is helping with many items. The school is cleaner and safer and there is evidence of stimulus for the children within the classrooms. We have given the school some money to help them with the problems caused by the drought and dreadful harvests in 2011.

Getting a new Knee

As we get older visits to doctors and to hospitals get rather more frequent. My first bit of big surgery was in September 2002. It was to replace a wear-damaged hip with a new one. It all went well and I was out of hospital in 7 days. But this blog entry is being written 9 years later and this time it as a new knee. What a difference. I arrived at 7 a.m and the operation started at 8.30 a.m. It done under a spinal nerve block epidural. No full anaesthetic this time so a much quicker and easier recovery. I could have chosen to be awake and hear all the sawing and hammering but was a bit too cowardly for that. All over by just after 10 a.m. and back to the ward by 12.00. No longer do we rest for days. Best practice is to get mobilized quickly and I took the first rather wobbly steps with a frame only 4 hours later.

Next morning the physio team started and I was onto crutches and taking short walks around the ward.

I was discharged after two and a half days and not 7. Better outcomes. Better patient recovery and mobilization. Much safer surgery. And dramatically less costly. And the nice thing so often forgotten is that it is the NHS surgeons and doctors who are leading these innovations.

We really have the best service in the world and this was verified recently by the USA Commonwealth Institute, which compares the best systems in developed countries. Our national challenge is how to protect it at a time when we cannot really afford the £100Bn national bill.

Good Shepherd and Outreach

Thanks to the help of Pat Scampion and lot of friends the Good Shepherd Outreach programme  for families and for children with disability and who love in the Fort Portal area, has now started. 
Here is  what Sr. Theresa says about it.

The major aim of this programme is to respond to the challenges as a result of changing the situation in which Children with severe disabilities are facing, more especially in their families and communities, where they are neglected and biased. Most Parents to have such children they take it as a curse, so these children become victims of hatred and they are mistreated, above all not taken to school.

First and foremost, we have started with home visits and see the needs of these Children so that they can benefit from this programme. We teach, sensitize and provide Guidance and Counselling as most Parents are biased.  We shall all also give Mothers skill training, for example, weaving, and tailoring so as to have sources of earning income which will reduce poverty. 

We shall also transport Children to School for special activities such as massage, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, teach Children various games which will help them move and stimulate the nerves.  Teach Mothers who have Children with weak bones and limbs exercises.

OBJECTIVES

• To create awareness on prevention of diseases such as kwashiorkor by teaching them balanced diet, lack of a balanced diet has caused disabilities in most children.
• Provide Guidance and Counselling to Parents/Guardians
• Transport Children to the School for special activities
• To teach and sensitize parents and youth to build capacity of mutual respect towards Children with disabilities so that they can feel they are worth human being and useful citizens with a future. Also provide democracy, equality and respect for human rights to these vulnerable children and a model for community attitudes towards children with disabilities.
• To teach, sensitize and guide them on how to care and love their children to make them happy and feel they are loved and cared for, this will help such children to become useful people.
• To sensitize the parents and guardians the value and importance of their Children in future when they are helped, more especially equipping them with practical skill so that they can be independent citizens with a future.
• Parents living with HIV need to booster their immunity with body building foods and a proper balanced diet too.
• To train leaders from those parents and youth so as to train other people in the community, so that there is continuity of what we have taught them.
• Provide a model Community which can sustain itself in providing basic needs and balanced life in their families.  Parents more especially Mothers acquiring skills, to identify resources around them and put them at good use, which will reduce poverty. And also to have sources of earning income in different projects for their survival and continuity of what we are going to teach them.

Written by Sr. Theresa Abigaba