Nyakiyumbu Widows receives Material and tokens of Appreciation

On Thursday 19th February 2015, I visited the Nyakiyumbu Widows Association and their Orphanage school where I was delivering items that were donated by the Embrace Global Change charity that comprised of a computer set, a microscope meant for the Embrace Global Change laboratory and some medicines. All these items benefit the widows and the orphans studying at the Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage School. As I was delivering the items, I moved with Mr. Ndyanabo David, and The Pellissier Science Laboratory Technician. We set off for Nyakiyumbu at 2:00 PM and by 3:20, we were already at the Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage School. At the school, we were received by the School Head Teacher Ms Perezi who gave us the opportunity to say hello to the children. We found a section of children at the school who only comprised of Primary 3 class. The school runs 3 classes: Nursery Class, P.1, P.2 and P.3. Total enrollment at the school was at 141. We were impressed with their formation of an active School Management Committee and a Parents Teachers Association to ensure all school efforts and plans move in the right direction. We also offered some tips on how they can go about improving on the academics, general being of their school.

The children, School staff and the Widows group appreciated the donations and were so thankful to Biba Kavass of Embrace Global Change, Hank Pellissier for mediating and contributing some support that went towards feeding the children at the school and Bwambale Robert, The gentleman behind the coordination effort. There was also delivery of tokens of appreciations to the School Director and Staffs at the Nyakiyumbu Orphanage School where close to 100$ was donated courtesy of Hank Pellissier. Attached are some of the images of the event.

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First coat of red oxide to prevent rusting

Tresor painting the windows and doors

School hall window & ventilators finishing finalised

Work on the Kasese Humanist Primary School site is going on at a rather steady pace as we are right now covered with shuttering the entire School Hall plus the attached three classrooms. Some finishing works on the ventilators, window and door areas have also been worked on plus veranda ring the whole building.
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school hall shuttered,shutters painted, veranda fixed on entire building

Some works though still remains to be done on this building as flooring works and the ceiling has not been tackled yet. Adding a coat of paint on the shutters is in progress with an intention to protect the metal doors and windows from rusting and thereafter a blue coat will be added to give the building a uniform look with the nursery block.

In an effort to maximum utilize the space for useful purposes, a fresh giant room has been created and attached on to the Nursery block which will act as a Vocational skills training workshop which will orientate vocational subjects like carpentry, basic welding, fine art and craft making to young children at the school. This room will also add value to our school motto of With Science; we can progress as the children will actively participate in creativity and innovations at making things using their own hands. The unit will possess a strong room to act as a store room and a recording room that will be used to shoot videos in the ongoing Science Q&A project. This building right now is at beam level and soon it will be at wall plate.

The string of buildings all the way from the school hall building - library – computer room – vocational room and the nursery block have created a self made perimeter fence that has cut away trespassers and wrong elements away from the school property and upon funds availability, a stretch of buildings will be created on the western side to create an enclosure so that the main entrance to the classrooms will be through gates for security reasons of school property and safety of our students. 

                                         The Vocational skills workshop

Another building that has come up on the school site is the School library plus the computer room all attached together but with separate entrances. These rooms are all spacious to cater for their purpose and right now are at wall plate.

                                            School library & Computer Room

                             Khps Library room  (right) while computer room (left)

As you can notice in the photographs, these two buildings are incomplete and as per the technique I normally use, I plan upon funds availability to plaster the two buildings such that they are protected from being damaged by the rains, but the fact that we fixed the ring beam puts us at a better position to have the building standing, plastering it adds maximum strength and longevity.

Well, in the recent disaster of flooding by the Nyamwamba River in which many people have been displaced while others lost their belongings and crops swept away. The Kasese Humanist Primary School site which has Nyamwamba river bordering it in the west side was not affected by the floods as its located on a raised area some distance from the Nyamwamba flood plain. This time again, a deposition of sand is now available in full swing and plans are underway to fetch up this huge chunks of sand to help me out in plastering and flooring the unfinished buildings. All that I may require the international community to help me out is funds to purchase cement, timber and iron sheets.

The property too supports some little farming of vegetables like tomatoes, green peppers, plantains, some maize, beans and cassava.

                                               Khps Site photos

Lastly I thank the international community most especially people from secular communities worldwide for standing with us as we try our best to take forward evidence based learning on the African continent. We are very optimistic that taking the Science and technology advancement path, our solutions on this continent will be gradually solved.

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Library & computer room constructions in progress@KHPS site

As the school hall awaits to be shuttered soon with its ceiling also to be worked upon plus flooring this structure, the School Director has embarked on erecting new structures and among them is a new building aimed to hold the School Library and the Computer room. This building is situated some few distance from the School hall and has got its wall attached onto the school hall on one end while on the other end encloses the pit latrine.

Foundation of the School Library & Computer room at the school site

The entire structure has dimensions of 43.5 ft wide and a width of 22.5 ft. The library alone has a size of 25.2 ft by 22.5 ft.

The builders doing their best to build up the walls, the wall sizes is thicker for maximum strength

The fact that this building is attached onto the school hall and with its other wall bypassing the toilet area makes it some sort of a perimeter fence curbing away trespassers or petty thieves that may pass through the property with their selfish motives.

Lower side wall attached to the school hall building

On the other side attached on to the nursery block is also another erection of a fence at the same time, plans are underway to build a vocational skills shelter  attached to a double sized room that might accommodate some offices. 

A mason figuring out the space to be covered by the foundation trench to be dug

fixing the foundation for the vocational skills shelter@khps

There are provisions of installing at some time rain water harvesting tanks on the nursery block and the school hall building, this is justified by the spaces that will house these tanks.

The Shutters of the School Hall building have been accomplished by the local welder and will be fixed within this week. Works on meshing up the school hall ceiling is complete and right now the carpenters are working on final works of ensuring its strength is conducive to support the sand/cement mixture that will be added at some time upon more funds availability.

Meshing up the school hall complete

A carpenter fixing the mesh wires on to the wooden form work

US based donor brings smiles to KHPS Teachers

Today April 25, 2014 was closing day of the school term 1 at Kasese Humanist Primary School and students together with a section of their parents came to the school to collect their end of term 1 report cards and examinations file.

The school reopens for term 2 on 19^th May 2014 and we expect all the children to turn up for this term.

On the side of the Teachers it was a time for them to show results of the children they have been teaching at the same time evaluating themselves whether the children at the school are indeed absorbing in the knowledge they are imparting to the learners.

Something special happened on this last day, The teachers were graced to receive a donation of US$60 which was a token of appreciation to the teachers for their courageous hard work at the school which came from a long time friend of the school from the United States Mr. Mario who is a father to Lylah, the young girl from KidsHeartKids Charity. The funds were sent through the Bwambale Robert, the school director who delivered the donation.

Tr.Solomon unpacking the soap box

 The funds were used to purchase a 24 bottle crate of soda, 25 Kilos of sugar, 2 dozens of toothpaste with toothbrush inclusive, two boxes of bar soap. All the 19 working staff members at the school benefitted from this donation and were handed a kilo of sugar, a bar of soap, toothpaste. To make the function colorful, the school Director contributed some funds to have the teachers eat Pilawu which is fried rice, spiced with meat and at the close of the day the teachers parted away with their final month salary pays.

Several photographs were shot and indeed the teachers were extremely happy with the gesture of someone far away to get concerned and support them. They thank Mr. Mario and the entire team at Kids Heart Kids for supporting a number of KHPS Projects and bringing a smile to their faces.

A section of teachers upon receipt of the gift

Jubilant Khps Teaching staff receiving the donated items courtesy of a US Donor

In the interest of our readers, Kids Heart Kids supports our school in feeding the chicken, boosting up the Sports team by having and continuing to donate sports uniforms and accessories, there is also a Penpal program ongoing where our children are participating in letter exchange.

Teachers enjoying a meal in the open under a tree shade

A BIG THANK YOU FOR THE GENEROUS DONATION