“If others can, we can!”
- motto at Globalize Action Junior School
House of Hope’s core project, Globalize Action Junior School, provides free primary education, nutritious breakfast and lunch, and needed medical care to 104 sponsored students ranging in age of 3 to 14 years. The school is also a successful primary school serving an additional 90 tuition-paying students from the rural communities of Kyzanga and Nakateete in southwestern Uganda.
Three levels of pre-school plus Grades P1 through P5 are presently offered with plans to add an additional grade each year. On weekends students enjoy extracurricular activities such as singing, dancing, and arts and crafts. Staff members include Jenifer, six teachers, a cook, a groundskeeper, an animal husbandry specialist and volunteers who arrive from around the world. Curriculum includes traditional subjects such as reading and writing in English, mathematics, social studies, and art, and is supplemented with plenty of playtime and outdoor group activity. However, it is the love, security and attention Jenifer and her staff provide students that continue to have the greatest impact.
Jenifer and her staff take extra steps to keep the community engaged in House of Hope and the Action School’s essential work, and have been able to count on strong community support. To date, many local residents have donated supplies and volunteered time to help build and develop the school as a true community project. However, additional sources of outside funding are urgently needed to support the school’s operational and infrastructure costs.