Dear friends around the world,

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak the schools in Uganda were closed for two years, as the government instituted a lockdown. All children were sent back home to their parents, a great majority poor.

Schools in Uganda are based on the British model of boarding schools, which is good particularly for those students who live far away. But staying home for two years impacted their learning and growth. We want to change that for the Nasenyi Jewish community by helping parents to send their kids to Hadassah primary school to continue their education. The school goes up to 8th grade.

Our community has prevented in the two years the worse outcomes, especially for girls. In the general population many young age girls have gotten pregnant. Some parents use them as a source of income by suing the boy's family. Other parents choose to give out their daughters to rich men for money so that they can educate the boys.

However, none of this has happened yet in our community. We have been able to control this by keeping our children in our Hebrew classes which have been keeping them busy and bright minded. We also kept them busy making kippot, trivets and challah covers.

Every child in our Hebrew class is very bright and they all have much passion for school and Torah reading. Between primary and secondary students, we have 27 children.

 We know that the Hadassah primary school is the best chance for our children, because they teach Hebrew and Torah and Judaism in general and also they have high standards. The government already announced the reopening of schools on the 10th of January 2022.

Please support the education of these innocent children. Let's do this together and curb illiteracy, unemployment and future crimes.

Every kid has a dream as you will see below:

Emunah Sabano would like to be a Surgical Doctor,

Shivan Baluka would like to be a Lawyer,

Erisa Gayola would like to be a Pilot.

Please support us so that we can also have a bright future.

Here are pictures of the school:

A full year (three terms) costs US$ 240 per child. That covers classes, room and board, materials and uniform. Please help us.

Here are some of the Nasenyi children that will be helped by you:

Shimuna Kalugana is 7 and would like to go to second grade.

Moshe Kalipa is 7. We hope to send him to second grade.

Amram Muberu is 5, we hope to send him to first grade

Erisa Gayola is 6. We hope to send him to first grade. He would like to be a pilot when he grows up.

Tehillah Tazoire is 11 and hopes to go to seventh grade

Shevitah Namuge is 12 and hopes to go to 7th grade

Dina Naula is 13, hoping to go to sixth grade

Chana Nashuka is 13, also, going to 6th grade

Damali Nashuka is 14, hopes to go to 1 year of secondary school.

Rachel Amodingi is 13, and wants to go to 6th grade

Shivan Baluka, 14, would like to be a lawyer when she grows up. She likes blue colors and her favorite subject is Literature. She hopes to finish secondary school this year.

Emunah Sabano 15 ,  would like to be a Surgical Doctor when she grows up and science is her best subject. She hopes to finish secondary school this year.

Esther Adong is 16 and hopes to finish secondary school.

Here is the entire list of children, and the grades they are hoping to enter. P stands for Primary and S for Secondary:

Adong Esther- s.3

Amodingi Rachel- p.7

Baluka Shivan- S.3

Benenego Benjamin- p.6

Buchaire Avraham- S.3

Dyaanya Taana- p.3

Galandi Yosef- S.1

Gayola Erisa- p.1

Gimbo Deborah - P.5

Gimbo Miriam- p.3

Kalipa Moshe- p.2

Kalugana Shimuna- p.2

Magoba Norah- p4

Mumberu Amram- p.3

Muneku Yonatan- p.5

Nachuka Chana - p.5

Nachuka Damali is entering S.1

Nafamba Ahava- p.4

Nakajo Emunah- p6

Namuge Shevitah-p.7

Naula Dina- p.6

Sabano Emunah- S.3

Tazoire Shirah-S.2

Tazoire Tehillah- p.7

Ulandina Sarah- p.6

Walyombe Nathan-p.4

Yeku Jessy- p.1