St Joseph's Primary School

St. Joseph's was built by Adelante Africa in 2010 and was, in fact, the very first project of Adelante Africa in Uganda.

Once construction was finished It was given to the local community, and is now a government aided school which means the teachers are paid for. 

Adelante Africa continues to support school in any way that it can.  However, currently the school is badly in need of more desks.  The children squash up to 6 at a small desk but even then some have to stand.

St. Joseph's is a happy place and the staff are lovely.  Some of the pupils are waiting to take you on a tour in the short video below.

Adelante Africa Secondary School

Adelante Africa Secondary School is a private, non-profit boarding school in Igayaza. It provides four years of affordable, quality education enabling children in a remote part of Uganda to achieve the (UCE) Ugandan Certificate of Education, and as a result access to further education.  It is a high performing school regualrly achieving the top results in the county.

Scholarship

Every year we offer scholarships to children from the Igayaza area who get a high grade in the PLE (Primary Leavers Examination) but whose families or guardians can't afford to send them to secondary school. These scholarships are funded by individual sponsors.

Teachers

We currently employ a headteacher, a deputy headteacher and 11  experienced teachers to cover the different areas of the curriculum as well as a bursar a nurse, cooks and watchmen.  Some of the teachers' salaries are covered by school fees and the rest are funded by individual sponsors.

Information for sponsors 

Student scholarship 30 € per month full sponsorship or 15 € per month half sponsorship. 
Teaching salary 100 € per month Full time or 50€ per month Part-time.

Sponsors receive letters and photographs from their child twice a year. They can send letters by email which we will forward to the school. We also post news on this website and on our social media pages. 

For more information contact educacion@adelanteafrica.org (and not the general Adelante Africa email address)  

Click Here to sponsor a student or teacher in the secondary school

Adult Education Projects

The Government Administrator of Igayaza estimates that only 10% of adults are literate. The F.A.L. programme teaches adults to read and write at the same time as widening their knowledge in the areas of health, agriculture and the law. The group started in March 2011 with 55 participants, of whom 35 were women. Over the years the group has grown and more groups have formed. 

F.A.L. (Functional Adult Literacy) The inclusion of so many women is important. Women in this area traditionally have an inferior social role (for example girls kneel when speaking to an older woman or a man. An adult woman kneels when speaking to a man in authority). Many women in the village are however very active in trying to improve their lives and that of their community. Women hold positions of authority in the local councils and there is an Igayaza’s Women’s Group. Their aims are to: 

  • Unite as women of Igayaza, to work together and to get to know each other.
  • Start projects which will generate an income for our families and for our villages.
  • Get advice from one another on how to raise school fees for our children.
  • Acquire skills and techniques which will develop our families. Many of the women from this group are also in the F.A.L.

The project is run in collaboration with the District Community Development Office, which provides the books. Adelante África pays the salaries of the teachers and the members of the F.A.L. groups themselves pay for everyday items such as chalk. 

The F.A.L. groups are proving to be a motor for change in the area and are looking outwards for inspiration and ideas. They have netball and football teams that play against F.A.L. groups in other areas and meet up with other groups in District-wide celebrations. They have also set up a microcredit system, which is recognised by the District authorities and is used by the members of the group to hire a space in the market to sell excess produce or to buy chickens, pigs or better quality seeds. Adelante Africa contributes in a minor way to this fund. 

The F.A.L. groups are an important support for the Omwaana Tugende Children's Home and turn up together to dig and plant the farm or to bring gifts of food for the children.

Click Here to sponsor a Functional Adult Learning Teacher

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