Support Education in Uganda

A lot of fundraising campaigns ask people to solve a problem or respond to an emergency. Our campaign is asking you to help fuel a success story.

Katarara Primary School, in Cyanika, Uganda is fortunate to have made strong relationships with local and foreign organizations, like the Clare Nsenga Clinic, just up the road, and the University of Connecticut Medical School, which has provided them with some of the only computers in a school in the region.

97% of Katarara’s students advance to secondary school, and many have made it to University.

Katarara has a dynamic principal, Deo Tumushime who has big plans for the school. His leadership has been so effective that now he has more students than he can handle with his facilities.
 
The main objective of this campaign is to help the school finish their fourth classroom building. It has walls and a roof, but the floor is dirt, and it is rough and unplastered. This building is now being used for classes, even though it is not a good place for learning.

To keep his school successful, and thereby provide a better future for hundreds of bright, energetic Ugandan kids, Principle Tumishime has asked us to help him finish a classroom building and an additional rainwater collection system to provide water throughout the dry season.

This is not an emergency, but the success of the school does not mean there are not problems that need to be solved. Southwest Uganda is a needy place. Most people come from a background of subsistence farming, which can be more or less successful, but is at the mercy of environmental forces such as climate change.  Water shortages are increasingly common, and the risks of disease and malnutrition are always at hand.

Please help us help Katarara. Your donation is an investment in the future of a wonderful, hardworking, ambitious country.

This campaign is being run by students and teachers from Watkinson School in Hartford, CT who will be working at Katarara this June (WatkinsonInUganda.blogspot.com). The money is being collected by the Clare Nsenga Foundation (www.cnfcare.org) a 501(c)(3) based in the US that supports the health, education and development of the community in Cyanika. The highly successful Clare Nsenga Clinic in Cyanika now provides critical obstetric care (pics below).


Building Improvement
18000 Bricks = $1,100
22 trips of sand= $350
12 trips of aggregate  = $450
195 bags of cement=  $2,200
30 pieces of iron bars = $325
30 trips of stones= $450
Miscellaneous supplies= $810    
Labour = $2100                       
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Building Total=  $7785


Water Storage Tank
10,000 liter Tank = $1000           
Labour = $150
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Water Tank Total=  $1,150

Administrative Costs
& Miscellaneous supplies=  $1065


GRAND TOTAL = $10,000**

**Any additional funds will be used to paint the interior and exterior of the building ($2200), construct a new computer room ($2700) or build new toilets ($1100).




Pictures from the Highly Successful Clare Nsenga Clinic