By Andrea Sedlock | President & Founder
The past two years have been challenging, but with COVID cases declining and the re-opening of our school and other programs in January, we are again feeling hopeful and optimistic. We really can’t thank our supporters enough for keeping us afloat, while many other organizations closed their doors and/or laid off their workers.
Our school is making a real difference for almost 200 students in rural Uganda. We enrolled 183 students for the 2022 school year - 77 boys and 105 girls across six classes, baby nursery class through Primary Grade 3. Our consistent homeschooling methods over the past two years helped to keep our students on track, but we are working overtime to help each of our students make up for missed time in the classroom. Our school gardens help to supplement staff and student meals, and our students are now enjoying spinach, eggplant, cabbage, carrots, and pumpkin. Your support empowers us to provide not only quality education, but also two nutritious meals a day, and so much more to our kids!
Take a virtual tour of our school, narrated by our teachers!
With the reopening of schools, also came the relaunch of our Kid’s Sunday community program. This program is an important part of our community outreach as children in the communities surrounding our school are able to receive free meals, mentorship, education and fellowship at Rukundo. 137 kids attended our first reopening day in January and we’re so happy to see that number continue to grow to an average of 218 children attending in March. In all, 475 different children have attended at least once since January 1, 2022. As you can see from the attendance, everyone has been happy to see the program resume! Children have been kept busy each week with singing, sharing, playing games, and they have been counseled in various issues, such as making sure they are enrolled in school.
But there’s still so much work to be done. As you’ve likely experienced in your own country, the devastating effects of school and business closures linger, and are heightened severely in developing countries. Stretching for almost two calendar years, the lockdowns reversed significant progress made over the last decade to alleviate poverty.
Though our beneficiaries were not without our support, thanks to your generosity, there are still so many others who need our assistance during these most challenging times. In order to partner with even more vulnerable children, we desperately need to expand beyond my personal network. We hope you will share the life-changing work we are doing with your friends, colleagues, and family members.
We sincerely thank you for your support!
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By Andrea Sedlock | President & Founder
By Andrea Sedlock | President & Founder
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