Most of you know that I am going to Kumi Uganda this summer as part of a Team, and I will be part of a group of teachers volunteering in this project. Every member of the Team is self-financing and I would like to raise additional funds to contribute to the work while we are there and support the ongoing work in the area.

This year 2025 sees Mission Direct move to a new project at Wiggins Primary School.This is a Government Primary School near to Kumi Centre but serving a mainly rural community to the South of Kumi. It has just over one thousand students. The school has twenty teachers but only thirteen homes, some of which are in a very dilapidated condition. This means that six classrooms are being used to house teachers. The consequence of this is that some of the students are being taught in dilapidated classrooms from 1940’s, in which lessons are disrupted by poor weather. Our project is to build eight new teachers’ homes over three years and if possible, to undertake some repairs and refurbishment to improve the condition for the other homes. This will release six classrooms back for teaching, enabling the school to stream each year group and reduce class sizes.

Ensuring teachers are well housed means they are available without the worry of coping with inadequate housing.