MANYANGWA MODERN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Manyangwa Modern Primary School is project initiated way back in 1995 to help solve the problem of lack of schools in the area.

Location
The school is located in Manyangwa village, Nangabo Sub-County, Wakiso District in the North-East of Kampala. It’s located 13 miles from Uganda’s capitol, Kampala. The school is located on a 2 acres piece of land with enough room for expansion.

Aims
The school aims among other things at:

-         Providing education to primary school age children in the area

-         Identifying and develop natural talents among children of the school

-         Identifying the needy children in the area and providing them with free education

-         Building morally upright children to fit in the society

-         Equipping children with skills that can enable them meet life’s challenges

Start up
The school was started in 1995 by Sennoga Paul who got together a 15 member management committee to direct the school’s activities. The school started with 1 classroom block settling three classrooms, with 83 children and four teachers.

Expansion
The school has expanded in terms of population from the 83 children it started with to 365 pupils to-date. The number of teachers has also increased from four to 13 presently. The infrastructure of the school has also improved, the school has built 2 more blocks for classrooms giving the school a total of 3 classroom blocks. However, non of these blocks is fully finished, they are yet to be plastered, they lack windows and doors, and cement on the floor.

Bursaries
Manyangwa Modern Primary School understands the problem of the needy children, those who at times look at themselves as social outcasts due to diseases and wars that have left many parentless, poverty which renders some parents unable to support their children’s educational needs, and many of these children have guardians who can’t meet their school needs, some can’t even afford scholastic materials.

It was to the knowledge of these problems that the school launched its bursaries scheme in 1996. The scheme is currently benefiting 85 children. There are lots of children who’d benefit from the scheme, some in school, some still around the villages, but because funds got us limited, we regrettably fail to reach out to all of them.

Because of the problem of limited funds, we set conditions that pupils have to meet in order to qualify for the bursaries:

-         A child had to be so good academically, we therefore identified the best five children from all the 7 classes.

-         A child who exposed his/her natural talent extra-ordinarily in sports, music, Dance and Drama, art and leadership was also considered.

-         Children whose parents/guardians can’t raise fees, but can support the school by providing agricultural produce to feed the children at school, participate in the construction work at the school by providing labor during such activities and brick laying also get a chance to enjoy these bursaries.

All children catered for her are the needy/disadvantaged.

Pupil to Pupil Aid Initiative
This initiative is run by the children at the school and is directed at helping the needy/disadvantaged children in their midst. The initiative benefits orphans, the needy with special talents but can’t afford scholastic requirements like books, uniforms, shoes etc. The initiative is currently benefiting 25 such children. 

Children contribute 100 Uganda shillings every month towards a pool from which items needed for the needy are bought. They also contribute items like books pencil/pens, socks, a few go a long way to give in their used shoes and uniforms to support their fellows. At the end of the month, children decide on which pupils among the needy are to receive which items. However, if uniforms or shoes are bought, a child receives one pair in a year.

With support, the scheme would reach all the 85 children identified as badly in needy, so far. It’s because of lack of support that the children can only assist 25 currently.

Support
Pupil to Pupil Aid Initiative

We’d like to invite you to support the pupil in their initiative by providing:

-         Books (both text and exercise), and art books

-         Pens/pencils

-         Geometry sets

-         Calculators

-          School bags

-          Shoes

-         Uniforms

-         Sports wear

Or, where possible, money to help in purchasing any of these.

Support the school development projects
Manyangwa Modern Primary School is a young school that still needs much more for its development, which development means a greater benefit to many more children. We would like to invite you to contribute towards:

Infrastructure Development

-         Finishing the 3 classroom blocks that need windows, doors, plastering and cement on the floor

-         Construction of more classrooms

-         Construction of a play ground

-         Construction of a bore hole

Equipment aimed at tapping the children’s talents

Games & Sports

-         Volleyballs

-         Footballs

-         Chess boards

-         Badminton

-         Sports jazzes

Art

-         Art books

-         Colors

-         Paint brushes

We thank you so much for supporting us at Manyangwa Modern Primary School.

God Bless you.

Sennoga Paul

Headmaster