Rukongi School

Rukongi

The latest information about this school is given in a report written by Eden Quayle in August 2009.

You can read it by clicking here

This is Victoria Nyiragwiza who is the headteacher of Rukongi school, which has 659 pupils.

She is a remarkable lady. She is HIV positive and has lost her husband and daughter to AIDS. Her other daughter is well and, thankfully, is HIV negative.

Victoria runs a support network to help others who are HIV positive or have AIDS.

This is the new classroom block at Rukongi school which was financed by the fundraising efforts of Mounts Bay School.

The School raised £5,500 to build the classroom block and furnish it with desks.

The official opening took place during the visit in October 2006 when 12 Mounts Bay students and two teachers were present.

The villagers organised a day of celebrations.

The guests were greeted by a band....

...dancing and drumming...

...with a very colourful audience...

In fact the new classooms were completed a few months earlier and were already in use.

In May 2006 we had received the following letter -

Dear Angella

We hope you are fine.

On behalf of the Management Committee and Parents of Rukongi Primary School, we wish to thank you for every thing you have offered to our school.

Now the two-classroom block are complete because of your effort May God Bless you. We have nothing to do rather than to say thank you.

We wish to meet you in October as you mentioned earlier.

We thank you for giving us the ACE representative who has made life easy for us since the contractors are happily receiving their pay in time. We shall always love to work with him since his way of work is clear, transparent and sincere.

Greetings to all your friends and children whom you will come with.

Yours faithfully,

Victoria Nyibagwiza HEADTEACHER

Joseph Seburakeye
VICE CHAIRPERSON RUKONGI P/S

During the visit the Mounts Bay School party saw this unfinished classroom.

The foundations and walls were constructed by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority, but they ran out of money and have been unable to finish the project.

We estimated that it would cost £1,900 to finish the classroom. Mounts Bay School rose to the challenge and have already raised a further £1,000 towards it. ACE will finish it.

We now need to supply desks, cupboards and teachers' tables.

7 desks are being purchased for the school, funded by Mounts Bay School, through our Desk Appeal but considerably more are needed.

In the longer term we hope to provide new flooring in one classroom and to build accommodation for teachers.

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