Send love to Uganda by sponsoring a child to attend school for a year for only $85 or $185, which also includes dorm accommodation.

There is limited free schooling in Uganda.  Government schools are far apart and are poorly staffed, with up to 100 kids per class.   For Mubaku Village, the nearest school requires the children to undertake an hour-long walk through an area with many baboons.  Mubaku Village parents know that the baboons will attack their children as they walk to the government school, so the free school is not an option.  Therefore, the people of Mubaku village decided to establish their own school and devised the fee structure outlined in the chart below.

However,  the villagers are mostly subsistence farmers and have very little income.  Often, parents send only one child from the family.  Typically, girls stay at home to assist with household duties and get married at a young age, often as early as 13 or 14 years old.   You can help these families by sponsoring a child for an entire school year for only $65.  The school prefers that the older girls stay in the dorm for their safety. The majority of $165 a year, Dorm scholarships goes to upper-grade girls.

The school leaders carefully select each sponsored child.  The majority of sponsorships are given to girls whose parents can not afford to send a second child.   There are still more children not attending school than attending due to the parents being unable to afford to send more than one child.

The costs for the villagers to send their child  to attend Bright Future School are;

Item	Ugandan Shillings
School Fee of 20,000 Ugandan shillings a term.  There are three terms a year, each lasting three months, with a month off between terms.  This pays for the teachers.	125,000
Maze for lunch – Parents can provide a 5 kg bag of maize (corn) or beans, or pay 40,000 Ugandan Shillings for the maze for the year.  Most send the bag of 5 kg Maze.	40,000
Exam Fee  (the school uses the government exam so that kids who move can enroll at another school and get credit for their schooling at Bright Future School or can go on to secondary education).	4,000
Report Card Fee – This is the cost to print the report card, diploma, and a calendar for parents, featuring the child’s picture.	3,000
School Uniform (May not be needed each year).	25,000
School and other Supplies	40,000
TOTAL (Between $57 and $64 USD1 per year, depending on the exchange rate)	240,000

 

Other expenses are not incurred every year, such as a PE uniform costing 28,000 shillings and a graduation party costing 10,000 shillings.

The orphans in the village were the first to receive sponsorship – they all attend school at no cost.

When a child is sponsored,  we ask for $85, which is higher than the villagers’ school fee.  The difference is used to provide other items to the sponsored child, such as clothes, shoes, toothbrushes, sanitary supplies, and general school supplies for the entire school, including paper, pencils, and pens.

Consider making a massive difference in a child’s life by sponsoring a year of schooling for just $65.

The current cost to attend for the entire school year as a day student is $85 per child. This enables the child to:

• Pay class fees.
• Receive a school uniform.
• Receive school supplies.
• Receive sanitary supplies.
• Have lunch each school day.

Dorm sponsorships are for orphans, at-risk children, and students who travel a long distance to school.

The school encourages older girls to stay in the dorm for their safety.  The dorms also house orphans. For students to stay in the dorms, it is an additional $100 per year ($185 total).

The current cost to attend for the entire school year and stay in the dorms is $85 per child. This enables the child to:

• Receive everything a day student receives.
• Live in the dorms, with a matron and security guards at night.
• Receive three meals a day, including weekends.
• Receive a second set of school clothes.
• Receive extra tutoring in subjects through the dorm after-school program.

Learn more about the dorm by clicking here.

Secondary Scholarships are for children who attended Mubaku Bright Future School for Primary 4 through Primary 7 and passed the Primary Leaving exam.

Secondary: The current annual cost to attend boarding school is $460. This enables the student to;

• Stay at the secondary boarding school
• Receive three meals a day, including weekends.
• Receive extra sets of school clothes.
• Receive sanitary supplies
• Pay all class fees
• Receive school supplies.
• Cover transportation to and from the boarding school.

 

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