Kirima Ltd
The Kirima Ltd Trustees
Kirima Ltd is a UK charity which collects sponsorship and donations for the schools and University
in Kanungu.
It works with the institutions and local community to plan projects, allocate funds and deal with
issues that arise. This involves regular calls and emails between the UK and Uganda.
Trustees visit Uganda each year to inspect the schools, check on project progress, understand
current & future needs and, most importantly, ensure that the funds have been spent well.
"One of the great things about working with Kirima Ltd is the direct effect that donations have - we
send out funds and we see a school being run, children being fed and a project being built."
None of your donations or sponsorships are spent on UK admin - 100% is sent to help
the people of Kanungu.
Great Stewards of Hope
The senior management team on a rare visit to Lake Bynoyni
Great Stewards is the Uganda NGO which organises our work on the ground in Kanungu. The team there, led by Honest and Eleanor,
make sure that the schools provide the best education and care for their children.
They are responsible for recruiting & managing staff, handling regulations & bureaucracy, keeping buildings
in good conditions, providing necessary resources and managing the finances. A wide-ranging job that they excel at.
Most important is developing a vision for our schools and creating belief in all the staff that they can and will achieve it.
Making organisations work in Uganda is difficult and complex; Honest and Eleanor have built trust that enables them to find and
motivate individuals who run outstanding schools.
Uganda Development Initiative
UDI sets out to initiate, encourage and finance sustainable development in Uganda, concentrating
on schools and education.
A key focus has been to build, equip and launch the Science Education to Enhance Development (SEED) institute.
The SEED building comprises Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths and IT laboratories where students can become
qualified secondary science teachers to meet the great shortage in the region.
Inspiring Teachers
Fellowship volunteers at Kirima Primary
Inspiring Teachers is an innovative nonprofit helping teachers fulfil the promise of education. They create programs that help teachers
in low resource countries achieve inspiring outcomes
The organisation stared as a volunteer programme in Kanungu and has grown to support more than 5,000 teachers across 11 countries.
Their fellowship programme mobilises teams of overseas teachers who dedicate their summers to supporting local teachers in schools.
This works alongside their peer coaching program which equips teachers with the skills, tools and support they need to give each
other high-quality coaching.
Inspiring Teachers
Safi Coffee
Safi means ‘Pure’ and ‘Fresh’ in Swahili
Safi Coffee is a special initiative led by a group of UK schools and supported by local businesses and grant funding.
We import Ugandan coffee to sell across the UK. Our profits pay for Ugandan children to attend school.
It was conceived back in 2015 during a school trip to Uganda when pupils volunteered at Great Lakes High School and
Kirima Primary School. They witnessed preschool children working barefoot on farmland, using machetes, a sight that
inspired them to make a difference.
Children and parents there truly value education as an opportunity to escape the cycle of poverty. Sadly, many youngsters
never get the chance. Safi Coffee raises vital funds to educate children in Uganda and change their lives completely by
selling the delicious coffee grown in Uganda.
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Katate Health Centre
Visiting surgeons
Dr. Listle working together with people from the Kanungu District and volunteers of a German protestant church has realised
the vision to expand Katate Health Centre in Kanungu by building an operation theatre for basic, life-saving surgical procedures,
renovating the old patient buildings.
The team founded Chaperone International, a Ugandan NGO, to transform communities through provision of quality and affordable education,
improved health and poverty eradication.
They designed and built a simple, full-functional operating theatre with one main operating room and two wound dressing rooms
suitable for minor operations and a dentistry. It is heavily used, mainly for c-sections for mothers in difficult labour, hernia repairs and excisions
of lipomas and tumours.
Katate Health Centre
U-SHAPE
Ugandan Sexual Health & Public Education
U-SHAPE is an initiative between UK GPs and Bwindi Community
Hospital run with the Royal College of General Practitioners delivering Family Planning and Sexual Health Training and Education in Uganda.
Its family planning programme is designed for the specific training and health challenges in rural Uganda. It follows a whole institution
approach, meaning all staff receive training whether they are clinicians or support staff.
