Digital Revolution Awards to Build a Boys School

Greetings from St Martins Schools,

It is our hope that all is well in your respective countries and that its is as per your expectations.

Education:

As a school we have continued to offer education, the school feeding program to the needy students from the Kibagare slum. It is a challenge due to the high costs of foods and also climate change which has had a devastating effect in food production due to lack of rain in the last two years.

The cost of feeding the students has gone high and this has effects on all the other aspects of the education of our students, a good example is teachers take pay home. All in all we are hope that through the support we have continued to receive we will be able to finish the year on a high.

The school reopened on the 26th of September 2022. We are in the third term of the current school calendar year. It is a short term that will be ending on the 26th of November 2022. 

In our Boys school, since we started in may of this year, we have been able to admit 19 boys in their first year of high school and 5 Boys in their second year of high school. In the last two exams the students have sat. They have been performing very well and this encourages us to look for ways of investing in them in the hope of making their future bright.

School Needs: 

Being a new school, there are still very many needs though the one we have singled out is the need to have a computer lab as a teaching and learning Aid. With help in the installation of this we are sure it will go a long way in helping the students achieve and do much to aid in their studies. 

All in all we can say that this far we have made good progress and we hope that as time progresses and the support we have and continue to receive we will be able to achive that which we have set out. 

We are grateful to you our supporters and donors for the far taht we have come and we hope to continue to work towards making the lives of the children of Kibagare slums better.

Thank you.

Links:

• School Website

Greetings from St Martins School,

It is our hope that despite the many challenges we face we have been able to make it to the first half of the year.

Education: As a school we are more than grateful for the support we have received to date. through this support, St Martins Boys School was opened in The month of May.

We have been able to do the renovations in the Dining Hall, the kitchen, and the school administration block, clear the bushes and clean the school environment to make it habitable for the students and staff. The school administration has been able to employ 6 teachers, 1 Guard, 2 Kitchen staff, and 1 gardener to help with the day-to-day running of the school.

We have 19 students in Form 1 and Form 2. we consider this a good start for a new school and we hope to get more boys into the school over time. 15 of the 19 boys graduated from our primary school in the national exams that were done in the Month of March in which the school performed very well.

School officially opened on the 5th of May. The school calendar year is short with one-week breaks due to the pandemic. We are halfway through the first term and the boys are expected to be on break from the 1st of July to the 11th of July and then resume for the second term from the 13th of July.

Going Forward: There is still a lot of work to be done to have the school fully functional and the fact that we have reopened is a testament that we will make good progress over time and we are still optimistic that we will get more funding over time to achieve our goal.

We are grateful for the far that we have come and we hope to do more as the year progresses. Thank you all for the much that has been done and is still being done to date.

Links:

• School Website