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Koch Goma Secondary School
Amuru District, northern Uganda
This is our newest project, having only begun in February 2008.
The school has been displaced from its home village for the past 20 years, due to war. But, with the recent signing of a cease fire and the hope of a final peace settlement, the major challenge is now to relocate back to the village, some 15 miles from Gulu town, where the school is currently located.
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Our aims
Through our involvement, which we see as potentially, and necessarily, lasting a number of years, we aim to support a number of aspects of the school’s development. At this stage in the project, we are still working with the school to determine specific objectives and timescales within these broad aims.
Development of Information and Computer Technology facilities and teaching at the school so that the school becomes recognised as a specialist centre within the area.
Planning, fundraising for, and implementing a building programme at the school in order to provide reasonable facilities for teaching as well as accommodation for students and teachers. (Immediate need is funding to complete a girls dormitory in association with African Revival)
Sustainability planning and implementation to maximise the potential of the school’s 200 acre site as an income generating source, providing funds to support development plans.
We will add further details as the project develops.
Method
We will deliver this project by working in direct partnership with the school. David Renton will be in Uganda, based at the school in order to really understand the needs and to support implementation of the various projects.
We want to avoid what many other charities and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) do, which is to spend a short time making their own assessment of needs and provide facilities or services which beneficiaries neither own or feel committed to and which fail when the NGO eventually withdraws, having failed to include any sustainability plan in their work. A new building is great for a while - but soon deteriorates if no plan has been made for funding its ongoing maintenance, for example.
The management, parents, teachers and students of Koch Goma Secondary School know what their school needs in order to develop but need assistance to realise their plans.
A TEMPORARY PAPYRUS WALLED AND ROOFED CLASSROOM AT THE DISPLACEMENT SITE IN GULU TOWN.
STUDENTS GATHER FOR END OF TERM ASSEMBLY IN FRONT OF THE ONE PERMANENT CLASSROOM BLOCK WHICH WAS BUILT TO HOUSE THE LIBRARY, COMPUTERS AND SCIENCE LAB
SCHOOL KITCHEN WHICH PROVIDES LUNCHES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS