Golman African Children School is a primary school that accommodates 63 students in Kamuli, Uganda. Our mission is to provide children equal access to a quality education that will enable them to make choices, seek opportunity, and live a productive, enriched life.
Our Accomplishments
GACS proves that it is possible to give even the poorest children in the most remote villages a chance to go to school. As of August 2008, GACS has enrolled fifty students ages 3 to 7 years: baby class (3-4 years old), top class (5-6 years old), and Primary 1 (7 years old). We also rented a two-roomed building in the rural village of Nawanyago, equipped with school supplies and furniture and hired and trained 3 teachers, a headmistress, and a school director. In 2009, we were able to add more students to our roster and purchase new uniforms. In 2010, GACS moved into an eight-roomed building in Kamuli to accommodate even more students. We also were able to hire an additional teacher, buy books to begin a school library, provide one meal a day to students, and purchase two bicycles for teachers, administrators, and parents to use. In 2011, we invested in professional development for teachers, hired an instructional coach, purchased play equipment, painted the building, built a fence around the school yard, supplied new uniforms, and offered 2 balanced meals a day. Classes have been in session since August 2008.
Our Approach:
GACS uses the FUNDAEC teaching principals (see below) to prepare students for life-long learning. During the school day, the students learn reading, writing, math, science, English, hygiene and nutrition in their native language, Lusoga. We think that certain needs must be met for learning to take place, so GACS provides the students with breakfast and lunch each day and a clean uniform. We also believe that parental and community involvement is essential for student success. Parents meet with teachers and the school director to discuss expectations and goals for their students, while community members build classroom furniture. We aim to foster and expand this partnership. We build learning communities that work.
The school director, Masaidio Kalenga, oversees daily operations, administrative duties, student progress, and the school budget. The three school teachers have received training in FUNDAEC. They also attend on-going professional development in Kampala, Uganda.
Some basic principles of FUNDAEC:
*Consider the people as potential resources, not as problems.
*Develop human potential through a proper education that acknowledges and promotes human nobility.
*Work for a development that is not conceived as "Modernization."
*Engage in the search for pertinent knowledge.
*Avoid offering "pre-packaged" solutions.
*Recognize the need for endogenous structures in the region that would connect it to corresponding external structures.
www.fundaec.org.
GACS proves that it is possible to give even the poorest children in the most remote villages a chance to go to school. As of August 2008, GACS has enrolled fifty students ages 3 to 7 years: baby class (3-4 years old), top class (5-6 years old), and Primary 1 (7 years old). We also rented a two-roomed building in the rural village of Nawanyago, equipped with school supplies and furniture and hired and trained 3 teachers, a headmistress, and a school director. In 2009, we were able to add more students to our roster and purchase new uniforms. In 2010, GACS moved into an eight-roomed building in Kamuli to accommodate even more students. We also were able to hire an additional teacher, buy books to begin a school library, provide one meal a day to students, and purchase two bicycles for teachers, administrators, and parents to use. In 2011, we invested in professional development for teachers, hired an instructional coach, purchased play equipment, painted the building, built a fence around the school yard, supplied new uniforms, and offered 2 balanced meals a day. Classes have been in session since August 2008.
Our Approach:
GACS uses the FUNDAEC teaching principals (see below) to prepare students for life-long learning. During the school day, the students learn reading, writing, math, science, English, hygiene and nutrition in their native language, Lusoga. We think that certain needs must be met for learning to take place, so GACS provides the students with breakfast and lunch each day and a clean uniform. We also believe that parental and community involvement is essential for student success. Parents meet with teachers and the school director to discuss expectations and goals for their students, while community members build classroom furniture. We aim to foster and expand this partnership. We build learning communities that work.
The school director, Masaidio Kalenga, oversees daily operations, administrative duties, student progress, and the school budget. The three school teachers have received training in FUNDAEC. They also attend on-going professional development in Kampala, Uganda.
Some basic principles of FUNDAEC:
*Consider the people as potential resources, not as problems.
*Develop human potential through a proper education that acknowledges and promotes human nobility.
*Work for a development that is not conceived as "Modernization."
*Engage in the search for pertinent knowledge.
*Avoid offering "pre-packaged" solutions.
*Recognize the need for endogenous structures in the region that would connect it to corresponding external structures.
www.fundaec.org.
GACS is sponsored by TRUE Action, a U.S. 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible.