EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME

Rookmaaker School
In 1982, Africa Foundation started its own Rookmaaker School at Mukono Ddadira; the school has classes from Kindergarten to Secondary with over 702 children. 422 are former Street children abandoned babies and orphaned children. The rest are from the community supported under the programme of cost sharing, pay as you earn arrangement. There are 15 teachers for primary and 13 for senior secondary.

Africa Foundation‘s community School Support programme

Our Community School Support Programme has its own infrastructure structure, consisting of the construction of classrooms, which contain a self-contained complex under the burner of Rookmaaker School. Rookmaker School consists of preschool, nursery, primary and secondary and administration rooms. A direct result of developing a school’s infrastructure is that our school is eligible for qualified teachers. Equally important is the strengthening of school governance and parent-teacher interaction. Africa Foundation facilitates the development of school committees and a governing body.

Cost sharing programme

Africa Foundations’ School Support Programme helps the very poor families not to see an investment in education as an expensive and often unrewarding gamble. Our cost-sharing programme helps the local community to keep faith in the value of schooling. Together, in partnership with our local communities, we develop practical, flexible and innovative solutions, to ensure that our school is a place where opportunities, prospects and the right to education are respected. At our Rookmaaker School we provide positive experiences giving our children the tools they need to make the most of their future education. Our children's needs and their experience are very important to us; our children are not treated as recipients of education with no involvement. They are consulted and listened to, under our entire education support programme.

School Holidays

During the school holidays, Africa Foundation Children’s Centre children are attached to various departments of their own choice for vocational training. The Transit Centre with a capacity of 150 children cares for the resettlement of street children. Africa Foundation welcomes all kinds of support to the needy children in our care.

Uganda Tourism Board has various Holiday Camp provisions with well-supervised fun activities for children. We are hoping to take more of our children to some of the many Camping sites in Uganda in half term school breaks – we just need to cover their fares and the Camp will provide the rest.