New Kabaale Donations

I would like to thank all of those who contributed money and supplies to the students at New Kabaale Busega. We have done a few projects at the school while we were here, including building a sandbox for the younger children and purchasing textbooks for the older classes. Beginning on Monday we began construction on the sandbox, which was completed by Wednesday morning. We were thankful to have the Henderson's there to help us with the construction!

In terms of the books that were donated we were able to cover a large amount of need with the books that we purchased. For the Primary 7 class we were able to buy enough maths books to make a complete set- enough for one book to share between 2 or 3 students. Previously the class of 50 had only 5 textbooks, so every day the teacher would have to draw the problems on the board and have the students copy them in their books. This method was extremely inefficient (especially for a class that uses many diagrams and graphs) and as a result the teacher estimated that students were only able to cover about 1/5 of the problems and examples in the book. With the new books they will be able to cover much more material! We also purchased some Primary 6 science books and some reading books for Primary 1-3. All of the classes were overjoyed to received their books and we know that they will be treasured and well used.

Aunt Betty (Primary 2) showing off the new books to the class

Primary 7 looking at their books during break

Building the walls of the sandbox

After a long day at work

Jenny shoveling sand into the box

Hayden and Josie with some of the boarding students

Playing in the sand for the first time!

They had never seen sand before and just stood in the box looking at their feet for the first 5 minutes. So sweet.