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Child of Hope

Build a secondary school for free education in the heart of a Ugandan slum

Since building our slum primary school, we aim to build our own secondary school in the Namatala slum of Uganda, opening in January 2020 - for the poorest and most vulnerable children of the area.
£132,484
raised of £138,854 target
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Closed on 15/11/2019
RCN 1136068

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It will complete our children’s education at the same high standard they have reached in our nursery and primary school. Since our first older children left our school and moved up to local secondary schools, there have been concerns about a deterioration in their learning and behaviour.

COH continues to support 67 leavers as they pass through their secondary education. They will be joined by a further 44 in November 2018 giving a total of 111, and on it goes!

That support is much more than the cost of fees, uniforms and scholastic materials, since individuals continue to live disadvantaged home lives in the slum. It therefore also includes a mid-day meal back at COH school Monday to Friday where our welfare team staff can talk to students, check attendance and offer help and advice.They also receive home visits and medical treatment as needed, plus full care for those who are homeless (with foster families).

We also provide them with 2 week programmes in the holidays to support development of personal and social skills, as well as study skills where we employ secondary school teachers to give specialist revision classes.Despite our efforts, ex-COH pupils’ reports are showing a deterioration in learning and behaviour is worsening in terms of application and effort. 

And during this last year, there has been a growing number of teachers’ strikes in Ugandan state secondary schools, which is also having a serious negative impact on pupils’ learning and opportunity to achieve a better future life.

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Child of Hope

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RCN 1136068
Child of Hope is producing a huge social impact for children and their families in Eastern and Northern Uganda through free education, healthcare, clothing, food and welfare. Each donation goes to our work in the slums of Mbale and Karamoja and gets straight to work improving lives and communities.

Donation summary

Total raised
£132,483.82
+ £300.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,320.00
Offline donations
£131,163.82
Direct donations
£1,320.00
Donations via fundraisers
£0.00

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