Why sponsorship?

We believe that a sponsorship model is one of the most sustainable ways to affect long-lasting change. Many children are unable to attend school simply because their families cannot afford school fees for things like the required school uniform or the pens and books they need. With our structure, your $30 goes directly to the child you are sponsoring and to enriching his or her community. Our goal is seeing entire families and communities changed. This is why we build into your sponsorship two very important components: supplementing teacher salaries and assisting with medical costs.

Many of the schools we work closely with employ incredible teachers who are invested in the students. However, these educators do not always receive adequate salaries with which to provide for their own families. By supplementing their income, we allow them to educate the children free from worry.

Because of the poverty families in the slums live in, they cannot afford medical care for even minor illnesses. Left untreated, these sicknesses often escalate into something more serious. By setting aside funds to assist with medical needs when they arise, we ensure each child is always in their best health, receiving treatment and returning to school as soon as possible.

In Kampala, $30 provides a child living in the slums the opportunity to thrive.

For children living in extreme poverty, education is the key to breaking cycles of poverty and giving them a future and a hope. Through sponsorship, each child is able to attend school and receive everything necessary to succeed.

Every month, your $30 sponsorship goes towards:

• School tuition for all three terms each year

• New school supplies at the beginning of each term

• A new school uniform at the beginning of each school year

• Supplementing teacher salaries

• Assisting with any medical needs that arise for the child

• End-of-term celebrations to recognize the children's accomplishments

For about $1 a day, you can fulfill a child's dreams of transforming their future through education. Instead of living life as trash pickers in the dumps, like the generations before them, an educations allows these children to achieve their dreams of being doctors, lawyers, teachers, and pastors.

Allan is one of our secondary school children.

Allan was one of our first sponsored children back in 2017.

In 2019, he sat for his P7 exams and completed primary school with the second highest score possible. Secondary school is significantly more expensive than primary school.

With our basic sponsorship of $30 a month, we can afford about half of the fees needed for secondary school, leaving his mother to pay the other half.

Allan’s sponsor has had financial hardships and is unable to continue his sponsorship. We are looking for two sponsors at the $30 a month level or one sponsor at the $60 a month level to allow Allan to be able to attend school.

Wadofu Aaron
Born: 2016
Banda slum

Aaron is 5 years old. He stays with his grandmother and five cousins in the slums of Banda. Aaron’s grandmother washes clothes for others to earn money for her family. His father lives in a village far away, where he is a farmer. Aaron is in baby class, which is the first year of schooling. When Aaron finishes school he wants to be a policeman.

Raymond
Born: February 2, 2012
Banda Slum

Raymond is 9 years old. He lives with his mother, grandmother and two siblings in the slums of Banda. Raymond’s mother works in a small restaurant to earn money for him and his siblings; however, due to the COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns in Uganda, she is now unable to work. Raymond loves to play with his two young sisters and football with the neighborhood children. Raymond will be starting the third class of primary school, Primary 3. He is excited to learn and study at school.

Mwamula Issac
Born: 2013
Banda slum

Issac is 8 years old. He stays with his mother and two siblings in the slums of Banda. Issac’s mother sells vegetables and small fish at a market to earn money for her family. His father and mother separated when Issac was young. Aaron is in primary two, which is the second year of primary school.

Teachers have unique positions of influence in a child's life. The teachers we have connected with in Kampala are among the most gifted, passionate individuals we have ever met.

However, these incredible teachers are often very underpaid and struggle to provide for their own families. This is why we've decided to not only sponsor students, but the teachers as well.

A livable salary takes the financial pressure off our teachers so they can continue focusing their time and energy on educating our students and changing the community.

With the teacher sponsorship of $25 a month, you could be one of a small handful sponsoring one of the teachers at the schools we partner with.

Most of the questions we have had about wanting to sponsor a teacher have come from other teachers in other countries, who want to both encourage a teacher and financially help provide for learning materials, after knowing the struggle of doing so in their own classrooms. The teacher sponsorship will also allow us to send the teachers for training days every term, allowing them to learn techniques and tips for how to better teach their children or sessions of encouragement.

Nursery Section
Teaches Baby/Middle/Top Class
St. Paul Primary School

Florence
Teaches Primary 1
St. Paul Primary School

Dorothy
Teaches Primary 2
St. Paul Primary School

Teaches Primary 3-5
St. Paul Primary School

Teaches Primary 6-7
St. Paul Primary School