We are so proud and delighted that six Hope Home girls have the opportunity to attend secondary school this year! A big thank you to everyone who made this possible by donating towards the ESCAPE Scholarship fund. Without your support, these girls would not be able to attend school.
Our main concern right now is that our girls will be able to attend school, hassle free. Because they are all girls who will be living at Hope Home, they will all be going to day school.
In Uganda, there are day schools and boarding schools. The majority of students go to boarding schools as just going for the day may be too far and transport too expensive. All of our girls will be going to day school and then returning to Hope Home in the evening. Our concern right now is that since Hope Home is not yet open, they will be forced to go back home after school.
Returning home after school poses a number of problems for the girls. We have already noticed some jealous feelings surfacing among guardians who would rather not see the girls go to secondary school. They see this as a lose of labour, as most of the girls cook, clean, take care of small children, fetch water, and do any other tasks the family tells them to do. Coming home after school would also not give them the opportunity to study peacefully, something important to their academic success.
Because of this, we will be opening Hope Home early and starting off with our six graduates. They are Darphine, Dinah, Ketty, Rebecca, Scovia and Betty. It is just as important that the other 8 girls can join as soon as possible. If you would like to see the doors of Hope Home open to all our girls as soon as possible, please consider making a donation. Our priority as of now is to be able to properly feed and home the girls. We are so grateful to everyone who has already donated and those that plan on giving!
Hope Home will need $66 each month to cover an entire month's worth of food. Consider skipping a restaurant meal once or twice this month, and instead feed our girls twice a day for 31 days with your donation!
Future Hope Home girl, Auma Susan, helping prepare lunch at CUS. Molly, Darphine, and Betty are also in this photo.
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