Friday, 30 May 2014

Over whelming Teacher – Pupil ratio

Over whelming Teacher – Pupil ratio 

Uganda as a country introduced Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997 by a political commitment by His Excellence President Museveni as a main policy tool for achieving poverty reduction by providing facilities & resources to enable every child to enter and remain in school until the primary cycle of education is complete; making education equitable in order to eliminate disparities & inequalities; ensuring that education is affordable by the majority of Ugandans & reducing poverty by equipping every individual with basic skills.
Under the UPE Program, the government of Uganda abolished all tuition fees. Following its introduction, gross enrollment in Primary school increased from 3.1 million in 1996 to 7.6 million in 2003. This is despite the fact that Primary Education was not made compulsory or entirely free since parents were still expected to contribute Pens, Exercise books, clothing/Uniforms, Breakfast, Lunch, & even bricks & labor for classroom construction through community work. However, the government realized that parents were not willing to contribute large amounts of bricks & labor because of many other demands on their time.

Door of Hope Community School in conjunction with Mother Mary Charity Organization

Door of Hope Community School in conjunction with Mother Mary Charity Organization

The meaning of:
  • OVCs – refers to ‘AIDS Orphans; Children in Abject/Chronic Poverty; Violence; Sexual exploitation; Abuse & Neglect’.
  • PHAs – refers to ‘Individuals infected by HIV/AIDS’.

Door of Hope Community School is both a Non-profit institution for; those who cannot afford school requirement (OVC/PHAs) & Profit making institution; for those who can afford school requirements. It is an integrated focus on Academics, Health & Social services for OVC/PHAs; OVC/PHA youth & Community development; Community engagement leading to improved OVC/PHAs their Strong families & Healthier communities. It offers a personalized curriculum that emphasizes real learning & community problem-solving. It is a center for the community & open to every partner, well wisher & donor... all day, every day, evenings

Make-shift Classrooms-Building

Make-shift Classrooms/Building


Mr. Muyimbwa & Wife; the directors of Door of Hope Community School (DoHC Kindergarten & Primary School); are professional teachers. In 2005, they had a vision of starting a kindergarten in one of their rural home area but gave it time for research where to put it. So when chance knocked their way in 2009, they had to put it on their own ‘three (3) hectare land’ in Ssakabusolo village, Lubugumu Parish with 10 children with their three biological children inclusive. Research showed that within Lubugumu Parish & two neighboring Parishes had no Kindergarten. One of the problems they faced in implementing the Kindergarten was lack of classrooms.

To address this program, a MAKE-SHIFT classroom was made for the Kindergarten Children. In this classroom, these young children had to bear the heart from ‘papyrus/hard polyether papers roof’ on sunny days & had to get

Abandoned Polio-like paralyzed child

Abandoned Polio-like paralyzed child.

Sarah 2years old! Her Mom abandoned her at her parent’s home at the age of 2 month. This was brought so because the father denied her child that their family doesn’t bear premature children. Sarah is living with the Grandmother in Ssakabusolo village in Mpigi District-Uganda. The community of about 20 homes relies on one unprotected constructed spring for drinking, bathing, washing & in the preparation of food and a wildlife-pond for their livestock
within the same place. The wild-life pond is not drilled & does not have a watertight-casing that extends to the depth of at least six meters below the ground level. Within the same locality, there is an Alcohol distillation industry (Man-made pollution & waste toxins) on small scale business. It pollutes the whole environment; the soil, pasture/plants, air & water with the wastes & fumes.