Good News Education Center , Kassanda

Ensuring the health of children under our care is very important. A clean school environment is a must have. There are four major elements of the Sanitation improvement program. 1. Rain water harvest systems 2.Hand wash facilities 3. Toilet/Latrine facilities 4. Walkways, grass areas and rubbish cans in the compound Rain water harvest systems include…

Kindly consider becoming part of the Yamba sponsorship programme. Send us an email on goodnewseducationcentre@gmail.com or juliuslubega2012@gmail.com or call us on +256772077427. Yamba is a Luganda word meaning help. There is a Luganda saying that “Oku Yamba okutono kusinga okusaasira okungi’’. This saying simply translates as , “A little help is better than many comforting…

In Uganda, the school year is made of three school terms. Each term is about 3 months long. At the end of each term is a vacation of 2 to 3 weeks. The last term has a longer vacation of about 8 weeks, which starts in December and ends in January. The first term begun…

January 31st , we had our school year begin here in Uganda. In Uganda, we have three trimesters of the school year. We have begun the first trimester and children are so excited about the new changes at school. We have two male staff that have joined our team of care givers. The staff are…

In Uganda, the school year starts in late January and ends in early December. The year is divided into three school terms (trimesters). At the end of each term is a vacation of about a month. This last school term was going on so well until ebola hit our district, Kassanda. Good enough, this evil…

Rich and his beautiful family had longed to visit Africa since 2019. Unfortunately, the pandemic changed everything including Rich’s plan to visit Africa. Once the pandemic calmed down, plans to visit Africa resumed. This year, on 22 January, 2022, Rich and family finally made it Uganda through Entebbe airport! Our guests arrived early in the…

These 216 children of rural kassanda need safer, more spacious, permanent and cleaner classrooms for their learning. Most of these children are orphaned and very needy in addition to being born in a very unfavorable area for schools. There is no piped water, no electricity grid and the roads are poor making the area so…

🌺To support the on going classroom construction program kindly follow this gofundme link gf.me/u/sxkqif . 🌺 In Uganda, the school year is made of three terms. Each term is 12-14 weeks. After every term, children have a vacation of two or more weeks. At the end of the third term, children get a longer vacation…

🙏🏿🤩To support kindly follow this gofundme link http://gf.me/u/sxkqif . Schools in Uganda, were closed for 2 years due to the pandemic. This so much affected children. There was a lot of loss of learning, lots of inconvenience on part of students, teachers, school managements, suppliers etc. Many students especially teenagers dropped out of school. A…

🙏🏿🤩To support kindly follow this gofundme link http://gf.me/u/sxkqif 🌺Access to clean water is very difficult in rural and remote Uganda. There is no piped water system. Water shortage is one of those things that make life in the African countryside hard. 🌺Homes depend on children to fetch water from swamps. Wells are on average one…