Am Naigaga Naume born on 23rd July 1969 at Bwayuya Village in Bulange Subcounty in the current Namutumba District. . My father was the late Ntende Benefansi (retired soldier) who died when I was only 16 years and mother was Namukose Getrude (peasant)who died two years after the death of my father. Am the first born of the four children of my mother although my father had married two wives.

By profession am a primary teacher.

My father died in 1986 and the mother died in 1988. By that time, I had just finished my senior four. The step mother started becoming a problem to us, we were seriously mistreated, she was ever promising to make us follow our mum and yet it is believed that this step mom was behind the death of our mother.

We tried to endure but after my young sister surviving poison, we organized to move away and start a new life.

I decided to go and rent a small room where we had to stay. My sisters were in lower classes, I had to put my education on a standstill and start looking for a job in order for life to move on. I landed on a job a few months and started working as a licensed teacher from where I based to go to Kyambogo University to professionalize.

Nothing was given to us such that life can move on since we were all girls. Life later became so hard, my young sisters later went and married.

At the age of 28, I joined the college for a certificate in primary teaching and in that very year I got married and start a family.

In 2010, one of my sisters passed away and the following year my husband also went.I started life again with my four children Nankwaga Hellen, Nabirye Miriam, Wako Derick and kyakoba Teddy.

After I later adopted three children who were suffering when they were still very young. In 2013 I adopted more two to make them five, by that time, I was able to get the little I can to facilitate them. In 2015, more children were identified and joined us, In that very year I registered it as a Community based organization in the name of Hope Orphans Centre Iganga with 12 children.

The member went on increasing and the church joined me and other well wishers to meet the needs of these children who we were keeping in an apartment that we were renting. Later the friends joined us to advise on how we can make this mission moving on and rendered us support to create an ideal life for the children.

In 2017, we went again for renewal of the registration with 22 children under our care, we also started plans of constructing a permanent home for

these children.

In 2018, the number of children increased to 28 after a number joining us. We also started getting some funding for the construction of the home, we started by growing some crops which were sold for money to start with. Later that year, we managed to buy one acre of land, construction started immediately. By early 2019, these building we're ready although not is a very good condition one could expect but at least they had got somewhere to spend night.

We started with the big house you usually see with red iron sheets and the other on the other side. In May that very year, the Brown mission society blessed us with another piece of land equivalent to half an acre located adjascent the organization.

In early 2020,after making brick, we managed to set up a poultry unit and a kitchen.

Currently we are having 38 children under our care with me as the director and kabweru Kenneth Ivan as the assistant director.

I feel sad and shade tears whenever I remember where I came from and what I went through and it’s not my desire to see any child going through that life.

I know it is very hard but nothing is permanent. Sometimes the Lord knows how to change things. Read Mathew 21:42.

In mid-2020, our sister in Christ from Australia blessed u with another piece of land equivalent to an acre. We managed to also get mattresses, bed sheets, pillows and beds for each child under our care, we also got five sewing machines so our children are being equipped with tailoring and fashion design skills/

At the moment, we need to establish a foundation school and a vocational institution purposely to equip the needy with real life skills for survival, we need to do renovation of the hope buildings and also other structures to accommodate more needy people and also established other income generating projects so that the organization stop relying on donations all the time not forgetting the day to day needs say food, water, medical care, soap, clothes, shoes among many more.

With great thanks, am happy for making me a public figure in the needy Africa.

Naigaga Naume

Let's go and change the world.

HOPE JUNIOR SCHOOL

(Foundation school)

Finding an answer to ignorance, diseases and poverty in the needy Africa

GOAL: $14,592

To be spent in

Construction of buildings: $12,307

Licensing of the school: $857

Other facilities: $1,428

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Hope Junior School will be a foundation nursery and primary school located at Lubira village along Idudi-Busembatia road just 500 meters off the main road after Bumoozi Police Post in Buyanga Sub-County, Iganga District (Uganda) Africa.

In the area, the only school found nearby is located 2 kilometers far away from the orphanage. This is a long distance to be moved by a child of three years every day. This has made many poor children in the area to forget about education, on addition to that, the school doesn’t offer quality education as teachers are ever on strikes for low salary.

After an intensive research for guite a long period,the founders of Hope Orphans Centre-Iganga (HOCI), we so that there is a high need for high quality performance in education sector in Lubira parish and Buyende District at large. The education sector has really lacked people who are active in education that is why we had to come up with such an idea to develop the minds of the needy community.

For the beginning, Hope Junior School will start from nursery to primary four and we shall continue with the next class year after year. This is because we want to build a good and academically soundable foundation school in the region and Uganda at large.

Since God is head leadership, Hope Junior School is setup on church basis and we are of a view to have pastors teaching children the Christian faith.

Hope Junior School is setup to bring the education services near and also to offer free education to the needy community of Uganda.Many orphans in the area have failed to get education to to lack of school fees and facilities plus the long distances that they move to reach the nearby school, so to curb that, we had to start a better service provider that the community is lacking.

As complete, for more information about this project, contact us on

Email: hopeorphanscentre@gmail.com/hopeorphansc@gmail.com

Phone number: +256775059722/+256774758108/+256754676232

WhatsApp: +256774758108

Motto: STRIVE FOR SUCCESS

Vision:  To be a Christian Centre of Excellence in the Holistic Education.

Mission: To develop God fearing, responsible, creative and self reliant citizens through intensive and interactive learning.

Goals

1. To offer free education to the needy community
2. To provide a high quality performance in both education and sports and games in the community and beyond at large.
3. To develop God fearing pupils for Uganda of tomorrow.

1. To   be an example to other inn producing high performance in both education games and sports..
2. To develop self reliant citizen of the community through teaching pupils entrepreneurship skills and knowledge.
3. To develop pupils talents both in sports and music dance and drama (MDD)to develop a strong relationship between school and community at large.

VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

Taking great concern on the problem in the community, we came up with some principles and rules onwhich the business stands.

1. We employ fully qualified teachers in order to   produce better services.
2. Evaluation of books of accounts has to be done every Saturday when the director, treasurer and the bursar are there.
3. No personal influence in the school without consulting from the board.

BENEFITS OF THE SCHOOL TO THE COMMUNITY

1. Offering free education to the poor African children who have failed to get education.
2. Reduction in the level of illiteracy in community and country at large,
3. Creation of market to the people
4. Creation of employment opportunities like teachers cooks etc.
5. Development of infrastructures like our new building.
6. Provision of better quality services to the community.

DESCRIPTION OF MANAGEMENT

1. We are to employ a head teacher holding a diploma in education from a recognized university.
2. A qualified deputy head teacher.
3. A qualified  accountant  from any recognized institution in Uganda
4. All teachers to be employed should be grade three holders from nursery and primary.
5. We are to employ one cook, a watch man and one water man.