Number of pupils :  776 (396 boys & 380 girls)

School Motto :  Education Pays

Kawule Primary School is a remote rural school in Kamuli District serving a community which depends on growing rice and maize for their livelihood. The school was built, on 5 acres of land donated by the Catholic Church, thanks to a government grant in 1998. This enabled 6 good quality classrooms to be built and 4 teachers’ houses. The school’s enrolment quickly began to rise as parents, who had previously kept their children at home, began sending them to school as a result of the new facilities. The result was that the school’s enrolment tripled in the space of one year placing great strain upon the school’s resources.

The community responded by fundraising in order to build more classrooms. Unfortunately a former head teacher cut corners in order to get buildings up quickly. The result was that a number of the classrooms and teachers’ houses developed major structural problems. Two of the teachers’ houses collapsed, the roof of one of the classrooms fell in and the block of latrines was washed into the pit beneath them, as a result of heavy rain.

That meant that over 600 children, who attended the school, shared just 4 latrines, which caused long queues to form at break times. Children had their lessons in classrooms which were structurally unsafe and liable to fall down in the next storm. Lessons were abandoned, whenever the wind became strong, as the school feared the roof would fall in on the children. Despite these difficult conditions the staff continued to work hard and the children were keen to learn.

Since 2009, the school has been transformed with 23 separate projects by The HvSMF. These included much needed renovation of existing structures and 16 new buildings. We will now be watching to see whether the enrolment increases and the academics improve.  The school feeds into Magogo Secondary School, which is one of our supported secondary schools.