Hope Community Highschool

$5,000 Urgently Needed to restore Hope Community School

Please make your Donations at: http://hopebuilders.org.au/donate/

please put reference HCS so we can recognise your donation is for this cause.

Team No.27 visited Hope Community High today to see the amazing work that is being done here to educate children who would not be able to go to secondary school without this school and the generosity of their director Robert. This school was opened in 2008 and charges a fraction of the fees of other schools, charging only $180,000 shillings ($70au) in comparison  with other schools in the area that charge between 1.1million shillings ($480au) to 2.5million shillings ($1,000 au ) per term.  Hope Community school also never turns away a student who cannot pay which is unheard of in Uganda, if you cannot pay fees you cannot go to school.

Unfortunately somebody (It is suspected that someone who is not happy with Hope educating kids for small amounts of fees came in and set the school on fire.) 

Thankfully the children were not in their beds at the time as this was the boarding school buildings. The children who first noticed the fire notified the teachers and with buckets of water attempted to put the fire out on their own, unfortunately by the time the fire brigade arrived the fire had already done its damage and been put out.

The damage caused to the school has been significant and devastating to see 129 senior students sleeping 2 on a mattress in 3 very small buildings because they refuse to stop their education as suggested by the government, these children want to learn no matter the cost. 

With the money raised we will be able  to purchase new beds for the 129 children to sleep on and also replace their silver boxes which carries their life belongings in and have also been lost.