Uganda Lodge Community Projects

BENEFICIARIES - Rural Communities in Western Uganda especially children and the most disadvantaged families OUR SERVICES - Our UK charity has funded a gravity fed clean water supply; safeguarded several springs piping water to 3 villages, 3 schools, 2 churches and our Volunteer Centre with 30 taps. We run a Village Medical Clinic with free consultations for all, at cost drugs for adults, and many free drugs for children. We run outreach clinics when we have available volunteers and organise some support for disabled children in the area. We have funded the building of a Nursery and Primary school which has 10 classes of up to 200 boarders and 300 day students, are fully registered and, for the past 8 years, had 100% pass rate for Primary Leaving Exams. Very low affordable school fees are subsidised by our UK charity support scheme as is free breakfasts and low cost lunches.  We have opened Vocation Training classes for youngsters who cannot even afford Govt Senior Schools and aside from tailoring knitting and hairdressing - we offer some lessons in spoken English, plus Entrepreneurship, Business and Life skills. We are currently building a training kitchen/restaurant and girls dormitories to bring in an income and enable us to offer a wider variety of new skills IMPACT - So many young people in rural Uganda, especially those in government schools do not even complete a Primary education, and this leaves little opportunity to advance themselves and avoid early pregnancy and marriage and living off subsistence farming. Our clean water supply and our medical centre has reduced the numbers of illness and permanent disability or even death. Our school has offered affordable but good education to more than 1,500 children from three years upwards and kept them occupied while parents are working in the fields. Over the past six years more than 250 children have passed PLE most with good grades which makes them eligible for senior school Our Vocation Centre is able to offer affordable training for all youngsters including both Primary/Senior School dropouts  and also those who pass PLE but cannot afford to join any senior school. This is an area where we are currently focussing on developing further