Projects completed in 2009
TV and Video teaching aids in the Primary School Hall
The problem: The primary school children and staff have very little opportunity to develop a greater awareness of the ‘outside world’. The internet is both expensive and unreliable.
The solution: To use DVDs and TV channels to provide a window-into-the-world for the school. The provision of the school hall makes this feasible, what is needed in a secure lockable cabinet for TV and DVD player, and of course the equipment!
The vision: During the evenings and at weekends, the borders would have an opportunity to watch films and educational DVDs (e.g. ‘The Natural World’) to broaden their education.
The progress: The cabinet was made by carpenters at the Gables Vocational Training Centre, and the equipment was provided by generous donation.
To contribute: Send suitable educational DVDs to The Headmaster, Rukungiri Modern Primary School, PO Box 116, Rukungiri, Uganda.
School bus to take resident orphans on
trips during vacations
The problem: When non-resident orphans go home at the end of each term, a number 
of children don’t have a home to go to. They remain at the school, and feel as if they are ‘left out’.
The solution: A school bus!
The vision: To provide the resident orphans with a way of ‘going’ somewhere during the school vacations. This would be both to make them feel special and to broaden their horizons be seeing other parts of Uganda.
The progress: Many donations enabled the bus to be bought in April 2009.
To contribute: This project is now completed, but donations for diesel and maintenance would of course be welcomed!
A sanatorium for the primary school
The problem: Although the number of instances of Malaria has reduced dramatically since the donation of mosquito nets, children do suffer from all sorts of other illnesses too. In 1980 an outbreak of Measles was very difficult to manage, since the school had no isolated accommodation for its borders; and expensive since accommodation at the local clinics and hospitals needs to be paid for, and food provided.
The solution: To provide a sanatorium within the school where sick children can be kept separate from the other school children.
The vision: To build a sanatorium on top of the Abergavenny Hall at the Primary School, and also to make similar provision within the Nursery School.
The progress: This project is now completed.