Meet Our Program's Beneficiaries
Buyanga Primary School
Buyanga Primary School is located in central Uganda. Over 1400 children students attend. Many students are unable to afford books and pens and uniforms, many students walk up to 2 miles each way to and from school and must help their family with their own sustenance farms, tending the animals, gathering firewood and looking after the younger children.
Buyanga Primary School is a partner in our Scholarship, School Farming, and Give a Goat initiatives.
Buyanga Primary School is located in central Uganda. Over 1400 children students attend. Many students are unable to afford books and pens and uniforms, many students walk up to 2 miles each way to and from school and must help their family with their own sustenance farms, tending the animals, gathering firewood and looking after the younger children.
Buyanga Primary School is a partner in our Scholarship, School Farming, and Give a Goat initiatives.
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Tikkun Olam Primary School
Tikkun Olam Primary School is a Jewish primary school that is open to all faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Jews. There are currently 450 students. Global Village Connect and Tikkkun Olam have partnered to build a 5 acre farm so that all students eat lunch. Global Village Connect also sponsors health education programs and student scholarships so more families can afford to send their kids to school! Tikkun Olam Primary School is a partner in our School Farming, Scholarship, and Mitzvah Project initiatives. |
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Hadassah Primary School
Hadassah Primary School is an Abayudaya school for Jewish, Christian and Muslim children in Mbale, Uganda, founded in 2001. We have a new 6 acre farm and an urban garden on the school premises to teach best farming practices while making sure students are getting some much needed nutrition. We also implemented our Give a Goat project, providing 23 vulnerable students and their families with goats to help pay school fees. Hadassah Primary School is a partner in our Scholarship, School Farming, and Give a Goat initiatives. |
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Ben David Primary School
Located in northern Uganda, this is a Jewish school with grades K-4. Ben David Primary School is a partner in our Give a Goat and Mitzvah Project initiatives. |
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Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School
Located in Putti village in eastern Uganda, this Jewish school teaches students from K-7. Jonathan Netanyahu Memorial School is a partner in our Give a Goat and Mitzvah Project initiatives. |
Meet Our Partner Organizations
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Days For Girls
Global Village Connect partners with Days For Girls to provide menstrual kits and a 2 day educational workshop for girls on reproductive health. The pads last for 1-2 years. $25 pays for 1 girl's educational workshop and a menstrual kit that lasts 1-2 years. (Each kit alone costs $18.) |
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Street Business School
Global Village Connect partners with the Street Business School to offer a curriculum of courses designed to teach participants how to own and operate their own businesses. With the skills learned in our business training program, graduates learn to run their own business, securing a steady income for themselves and their families. There are currently over 100 participants within the Mukono and Kwania districts. |
Day 7: Buyanga Primary School Goat farm
The goat farm at Buyanga Primary School is ready for goats. The goat structure and fencing are finished. Due to the lockdown in Uganda for the past 2 years, there are nearby schools that have closed and many more students are coming to Buyanga to learn. Eventually, the school will be selling milk, goat offspring, ghee and yogurt to help fund the school farm which now feeds 1350 students and much needed capital improvements .
Day 6: Tikkun Olam Primary school
Tikkun Olam student in "baby class", or kindergarten, receiving a letter from her sponsor in the US. Part of our scholarship program.
Breakfast being cooked for students at Tikkun Olam Primary School, funded by GVC.
Hopes Uganda's kids
Students first learn to sew with a rice bag and then progress to m
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Jennifer, Buyanga cook
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Day 4 and 5:
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Day 2: Boreholes A sweet tune on a Sunday afternoon. Today we visited 5 of the 6 GVC boreholes in the Mpigi area. A huge thank you from the community members to the NADAULD family and all those who donated for funding these bore holes. |
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One 20 liter jerry can of water weighs 33 lbs. This incredible girl carried 2 all the way home. I’m not sure how far she had to go but many of the girls walk 2 kilometers each way to fetch water, often twice a day. No young girl here needs to go to a gym.
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Day 1
We’ve arrived! I’m smelling the beautiful Ugandan air! Check back tomorrow for an update on Day 2. Going to sleep. It been a long 30 hrs. Good night for now. |
What?
Please join me virtually on this Global Village Connect trip to Uganda. I'll be traveling with my friend Stacy, who happens to be a water engineer, (so great!) and we'll be stopping at many of our partner communities to meet the kids, students, teachers, farmers, headmasters and the goats, of course. Each day we'll be heading somewhere new and we'll introduce you to a new community and a new part of Uganda. At Global Village Connect, our mission is to help provide every child the opportunity for an education and nutrition through our school farms, scholarships, micro-businesses such as Give a Goat and clean water projects.
When?
Starting Sunday February 6, 2022
Who?
We're working with four primary schools and several other communities helping children get an education and an economic opportunity.
Here's some of the people you'll meet.
Please join me virtually on this Global Village Connect trip to Uganda. I'll be traveling with my friend Stacy, who happens to be a water engineer, (so great!) and we'll be stopping at many of our partner communities to meet the kids, students, teachers, farmers, headmasters and the goats, of course. Each day we'll be heading somewhere new and we'll introduce you to a new community and a new part of Uganda. At Global Village Connect, our mission is to help provide every child the opportunity for an education and nutrition through our school farms, scholarships, micro-businesses such as Give a Goat and clean water projects.
When?
Starting Sunday February 6, 2022
Who?
We're working with four primary schools and several other communities helping children get an education and an economic opportunity.
Here's some of the people you'll meet.
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Meet Yaakov, head of Ben David School, Kwani, Apac Ben David Primary School students will be receiving 20 goats to help pay for their school fees. Meet Leah and her goat. Leah is a first grader from the L'far Rishon community who is attending Tikkun Olam Primary School.
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Hopes Uganda Meet some of the children from Hopes Uganda. GVC recently provided them with uniforms, backpacks and school supplies so they can go to school. The pandemic has taken a toll on many families and children. Hope Uganda children come from difficult living situations, many who have been living on the street. Sam Ngobi is making a home for these children and they've now started school for the first time in two years. |