Growing our schools in Uganda!

This school year, Nyaka is supporting 780 students from nursery up to University level. Students are supported heavily by more than 50 teachers throughout Nyaka schools. Our teacher's ability to provide a high-quality education is life-changing and sets Nyaka schools and students apart.

We do everything we can to support our teachers. Last year, Nyaka broke ground and embarked on building teacher housing at Nyaka Vocational Secondary School! The need for teacher housing comes as Nyaka is located in a remote rural area. Housing will allow us to recruit and retain highly qualified teaching staff, increase extracurricular activities and pastoral care, allow for extra support from teachers, and save teachers travel time as many teachers must travel long distances between their home and school.  

Recently, the first block of the teacher housing was completed with five two room units and three bathrooms! The final goal is to build five buildings containing seven staff housing units. Which will provide housing for a total of 22 teachers. 

We can’t change the lives of children through education without our teachers!

Links:

• Nyaka Website

Our Annual Walk Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) has returned after nearly three years! Nyaka’s Sexual and Gender-Based Violence program provides medical care, counseling, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual violence, and organizes an annual walk to engage the community to rise against SGBV.

Since 2015, this program has helped almost 500 survivors and assisted in the prosecution of more than 100 perpetrators, some of the first successful prosecutions in southwest Uganda.

Every July, our goal is to gather thousands throughout Kanungu and surrounding areas to spread awareness. We walk to make a difference and show the growing support for ending SGBV in our communities. We want all perpetrators or potential perpetrators to know enough is enough and their actions will no longer be tolerated.

In July 2022, during the Third Annual Walk Against SGBV, more than four thousand students and community members joined the march from areas around Kanungu. High profile individuals including Her Excellency, Kate Airey, the British High Commissioner to Uganda and community leaders joined us to take a stance.

In support of the SGBV walk and program, one of Nyaka’s partners, Nakasero Hospital delivered free medical supplies for our Healing Centers. These supplies will be used in the medical care of survivors of SGBV at all four of Nyaka’s healing centers.

Thank you, Nakasero Hospital and all those that walked or supported the SGBV program!

Links:

• Nyaka Website