Year-Round Love
Public schools in Uganda close for 18 weeks each year.
This leaves a significant amount of time for our students to receive impactful out of school time learning and development.
To boost learning during this crucial time, we provide individualized academic attention and supplemental classes to help our students catch up to peers who come from more privileged backgrounds with consistent schooling.
Our holistic lens on learning even includes journal-writing and giving oral presentations. Our students also receive vocational training, to ensure they develop a broad range of skills, and women’s health & sex education, to protect them from early pregnancy & HIV.
Equally important, we embrace these weeks of school closure as a time for forming loving, nurturing peer and mentor relationships for them to count on as they grow and heal from past traumas.
For this core support, during school breaks, our students live together in the home of our two Ugandan staff members, Sarah and Godfrey, alongside their own children and the family dog. They flourish in the stability of healthy family life… playing games, singing, dancing, doing crafts, sharing meals, and learning life skills like cooking and baking (with coal fires, which is the local culture).
The experience of being part of a loving family is confidence building, enriching, and
core to their socio-emotional growth. Self-expression and joy also play a big part in their
healing. Enjoy seeing some drumming and dancing in the yard before dinner!
For another snap-shot of ‘life at home’, see our students enjoying the bonding fun of interactive family games (a refreshing alternative to common “developed nation” TV watching for home entertainment).
Neighborhood gatherings also center around playing games together, and the joy of laughing in community.
Help Us Sustain Year-round Love
Our students are engaged, inspired, and uplifted thanks to the dedication of our Ugandan staff team who champion their growth and confidence-building during school breaks!
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