5th Stop: Tikkun Olam Primary School

Artist, Ali Dachis, and students painting a world map mural.

​Today we stop in Namutumba, home of the Tikkun Olam Primary School and school farm.  This is a Jewish school that serves Jewish, Muslim and Christian students in peace and harmony.  There are 450 students, ranked 3rd in the district. 

Students above helping harvest the ground nuts.

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Global Village Connect has initiated a 5-acre farm that provides lunch for the students.  They are growing beans, maize, eggplant, tomatoes, and potatoes for the daily lunches, as well as growing a surplus of onions and ground nuts to sell.  The funds generated by the surplus are used to maintain the farm to make the operation self-sustaining.  ​We also funded and built a school kitchen.

Students being served food at the lunch window of the new kitchen.

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Before you exercise today, see if you can shake your hips along with the Tikkun Olam students.  Warning: this is exhausting! It looks easy, but shaking your hips like this is no easy task.  If you can keep up with these kids, add a mile to your trek today!

Rehearsing for a performance.