Help Create Sustainable Education & Development in Rural Uganda

The Volunteer Uganda website supports a group of charities helping people in rural Uganda to create sustainable education & development. The programme started in 1994 when a group of parents set up the Kirima Parents Primary School for children in their rural district of south-western Uganda. The project, which has been supported by overseas sponsors paying half the fees for local children, has been an enormous success and has helped transform the lives of people in the area.

The success of the project inspired the people of Kinkiizi to set up the Community Transformation Programme - a series of interlinking initiatives which are making a real difference to families in the Uganda.

The projects have been carefully designed to work together and make a permanent difference:

• Setting up four sponsored primary schools
• Providing dormitories for children without parents
• Cooked lunches for children who have too far to walk home
• Providing of healthcare for families to avoid lengthy interruptions in education from ill health
• A new secondary school for children leaving primary education
• A college for graduates of the secondary school a route to paid employment
• Micro finance loans to help college graduates and families create profitable rural businesses