Bupadhengo Primary School - Update 2009.
In Uganda schools are expected to provide staff with accommodation. Therefore if schools are to recruit and retain good teachers it is necessary to ensure they have sufficient houses to accommodate the staff.
Bupadhengo Primary School has over 30 teachers to look after the 2150 children attending the school. Although we have provided the school with teacher’s houses in the past they are still not enough homes for all the teachers. This means that the school has to rent houses in the village to accommodate teachers. We are currently building a block of 4 teacher’s houses in order that these teachers can move to a comfortable house on the school compound and the school can use the funds it would have spent on rent to invest in things like books and science equipment.
In addition, we plan to renovate four existing teachers’ houses built by the community in the 1990s which, due to a shortage of funds they were never properly finished. We plan to re-plaster the interior and exterior walls and repair the walls and floors in these houses in order to prevent serious structural problems developing in the future, and to provide the teachers with a more pleasant living environment.
We have been able to complete this work thanks to a donation from Freddie Palmer, and his mother Jill, who in December 2008 raised the money by selling Christmas trees from their home.
Head Teacher: Mr Godfrey Samanya
Number of pupils in March 2009: 2150
