NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL

Temporally structure at Kazira orphans project.

 

  KAZIRA ORPHANED NURSERY& PRIMARY SCHOOL

Background

Kazira Orphaned Nursery and Primary School is a private school.  This school is found in Kabale District in the South western region of the Republic of Uganda. It was founded in 2009 by Mr Kukunda Charles to help the increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children in the region after a wide series of consultations. The project was started by to mainly access HIV/AIDS orphans with education. KAZIRA Orphaned Nursery School is currently using temporally structures as in the picture above to teach to educate the children and we request well wishers to contribute for the construction of permanent structures. Aim

Providing education, food, shelter, clothing and medical care to Ugandan orphaned and vulnerable children, to nature their mental, physical, emotional growth and well being.             Activities

Education mostly pre-primary and primary Co-curricular activities Leadership skills training Volunteer task

The work of the volunteer will be mainly administrative. He/She will be required to liaise with the project Director and other staff members to ensure smooth running of the schools programs Other tasks shall include supervising activities implementation and any other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the executive Board. Volunteer qualities

Emotionally strong. The volunteer work requires a person with patience and enthusiasm to innovate and create new ideas. Attachment to help the needy children carries an added advantage Command of good communication skills Flexibility in working with young ones mostly those aged between 4 years and 15 years. Ability to accept constructive criticism, welcome dialogue and accommodate challenges in an infant growing organization. Working hours

Kazira orphaned N& P/S official working hours are from 8:00 am to     4:00pm. Working with children calls for a volunteer ready to be patient, not                        emotional and prepared to accommodate a diversity of ideologies, ways of doing things and interpretation of variable situations. Therefore, a volunteer shall be required to carry a very open heart that can accommodate these situations. Volunteers work 5 days a week.

Communication

Communication with the school staff is easy because most of them use English. However communication with other members of the community may not be as easy but possibilities for translation are abundant.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Due to the increasing number of unattended orphans or vulnerable children in the community characterized by poverty and HIV/AIDS victims, it is against the above statement that the project came up with an idea to reduce the increasing percentage of street beggars and law breakers.
Besides, many parents die without making any will that will protect or safe –guard their children so the in-laws that.
It is however, against that background that ‘’KAZIRA PROJECT” conceived the idea of establishing a centre for such children.

The community came-up with these objectives below:
1. To provide the children with income generating skills for sustaining them selves where needed.
2. Offer formal education leading to literacy
3. To guide and counsel children with HIV/AIDS and to help them where needed.
4. To sensitize the community and guardians about children’s rights.
5. To sensitize children and the community on HIV/AIDS, primary health care and personal hygiene.
Nevertheless, there is a management committee to gear the affairs of the school following the financial procedures on the ground.

STRATEGIES
1. Mobilize resources with the community for the project.
2. Organizing workshops and sensitize guardians, religious leaders about children’s rights.
3. To instill in the orphans and vulnerable/HIV/AIDS children income generating skills for sustaining them selves for better future.
4. Provide formal education to all on-going school children.

ACHIEVEMENTS
• We have taken children for blood test and those who have HIV/AIDS are on ARVS.
• Children are able to read and write.
• Through guidance and counseling, many guardians have retreated and realized that these children also have rights to education, shelter, medical care and all basic needs.
• Few vocational skills have been achieved.

Dear sir/madam,
The management of  Kazira Nursery and Primary School requests you and other well wishers to pattern –up with them address the following challenges below:
1. Buy the land and the buildings where the project is running estimated US dollars 100,000
2. Pay teacher’s salaries estimated to US dollars 200 each.
3. Paying fees for children who are orphans, vulnerable and HIV/AIDS US dollars 80 each.
4. Constructing-saws and sports’ tools estimated to US dollars 2000
5. Buy equipments for vocational studies like weaving, sewing, hair dressing, carpentry and engineering estimated US dollars 3000.

NB : We request you that our school patterns up with some schools in your country for better co-operation. We shall be very grateful if we are helped on behalf of children living with AIDS and the orphans.

                           "At Kazira orphans Project Every one is a star"

SWIMMING PROGRAM

In 2011L KAZIRA Project started  swimming program for the children and all people of Lake Bunyonyi. The vast majority of people cannot swim, despite the huge part that the lake plays in their lives. Sadly, the lake claims many lives each year – children and adults. Some lives are lost due to canoeing accidents in bad weather, but many are children who fall accidentally into the lake, often while collecting water. In most places the ground slopes very steeply into the lake. Just one meter out from the shore the water can be several meters deep. 

Lake Bunyonyi means a ("Place of many little birds") lies in south western Uganda between Kisoro and Kabale close to the border with Rwanda. Located at 1,962 m above sea level, it is about 25 km long and 7 km wide. The depth of the lake is rumored to vary between 44 m and 900 m, which if true would make the lake the second deepest in Africa.It is one of the few lakes in the region that is rumored to be free of bilharzia and safe for swimming, however, this claim is not verifiable and patrons of the lake have tested positive as recently as 2012. The lake appears on the 5,000 Ugandan shilling note under the title "Lake Bunyonyi and terraces".
Towns on its shores include Kyevu and Muko while its 29 islands include Punishment Island and Bushara Island. It is a popular location for waterspots and is known for the surrounding terraced hillsides. It is popular with both foreign and domestic tourists and there is a wide variety of tourist accommodation.
The program currently is hiring one man, a local teacher, to teach swimming lessons to children at two landing sites at l.Bunyonyi. It will be expanded in the future time when we shall be training more volunteers, all local teachers, representing other different sites, to teach swimming lessons to children in the community. Swimming lessons are now being offered in these sites.
This is a big step forward for this program, but there remain several thousands around the lake with no means of overcoming their fear of the lake and learning to swim.

NB: We lack swimming materials and salary for swimming teachers.

Please help the project to send swimming materials.

 

  HOW YOU CAN HELP

DONATE NOW

The success of Kazira Orphans Project has not only brought joy and a brighter future to some of the orphaned and abandoned children of Uganda, it has brought a personal sense of fulfillment and accomplishment to its supporters around the world. There are many ways that you can support Kazira, and make a huge impact on the life of an orphan in Africa:

• Pray for the health, growth and development of the children at Kazira; the health and safety of the staff; the security of the facilities; and success of the current expansion program.
• Support a particular construction project or other one-time expenditure.
• Sponsor one or more of the Kazira children.

CLEAN WATER PROGRAM 

Kazira Orphans and needy children organization is running "CLEAN WATER FOR ALL " where by the project is for the community and in Uganda very many people travel very long distances especially children to look for water and of course "dirty water"but since God gave us free water especially rain fall, Kazira Project is helping the community by constructing tanks in every place of need either a permanent tank used by bricks or a plastic one. KOC itself can not do this a lone please join us.

 Poverty floats on dirty water, and 50% of the world’s infectious diseases are waterborne.  Clean drinking water is a catalyst for health and change.

Saving a child from getting sick, doesn’t just prevent death – the water ripples repeat through the whole strained social system.  Follow the drop of a child getting sick from drinking polluted water; first they miss a day of school, second a parent/guardian must take them to a clinic, third they must pay for the medication to achieve wellness.  Simply preventing, keeps the child in school, and also frees the child from making the trips to the water hole each day because we place the tanks at schools most commonly and water hard reach areas in the community.

Are you  interested??
You can reach us at 
sponsor@kaziraorphans.org
www.kaziraorphans.org

 VOLUNTEER WITH US

 VOLUNTEERS!

Are you looking for ways to make a difference while gaining relevant work experience to add to your resume? Do you want to learn new skills? Do you want to explore potential career areas? You can accomplish all of this, and more, by becoming a volunteer with Kazira Organization! Doing volunteer work with Kazira can be one of the most rewarding and best investments you can make with your time.
If you want to work on projects that benefit communities and work towards sustainable development then volunteering with Kazira is for you.
With Kazira you will get the chance to work in the  beautiful, stunning and green countryside, South Western Uganda. 
 

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES;
1. Community projects
2. Gardening, Permaculture home gardens.
3. Design and implementation of permaculture and sustainabilty based plans
4.Children activities

Visit us at www.kaziraorphans.org for more information.

UGANDA

    “Every one is a star”

There are well over 2 million orphans in the African country of Uganda, largely as a result of HIV AIDS. Most of these orphans live with a grandparent or other relative, but some of them have no one able to care for them. Kazira orphanage was established specifically to provide loving care to some of these orphaned and abandoned children, and currently we have over  374 children between the ages of 4 and 16. Located near the city of Kabale in South western Uganda, Kazira orphans project itself runs a nursery and Primary School at the site  in temporary structures to help children who are traveling long distances to school to one place but we need to build permanent school structures so any body can help in this excellent cause.

Before children started coming to Kazira Orphanage, many of these orphans had no one to care for them, while others were living in desperate conditions with aging and overburdened grandparents. Now the children are thriving in a healthy, nurturing Christian environment.
Considerable attention has been given to making Kazira as self-sufficient as possible. Food crops are being grown and harvested on our 10 acre farm located a few miles away. Rainwater is collected and used for washing clothes and scrubbing floors. Solar panels (which cover the roof of the bathhouse) and a large bank of batteries reduce dependence on the national electrical grid and reduce utilities costs. Cows, goats, pigs and chickens provide food for the children and an opportunity to learn about animal care.
You can help maintain and expand the services offered by Kazira. Contact us to know how you can support the work of Kazira Children orphanage and make a huge difference in the lives of orphans in Uganda, East Africa.