Project
Structure of the
UBUNTU MODEL SCHOOL

For us at >Friends for Friends<, the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre< is currently the most important funding project, as it has the potential to become a pioneering educational model for the future, even at a national level.

This school will not have more than 50 children in a class, the average size is 70 to 120 children. This limitation alone shows that this school is primarily intended to be a place for children to develop and realize their potential.

The girls and boys will be given a variety of opportunities beyond the prescribed curriculum of the state of Uganda that are appropriate to their age and promote their individual interests and talents.

This includes, above all, practical instructions for coping with life, e.g. gardening, craft and sewing work, learning about alternative energies or cooking without wood, etc.

“Ubuntu” is a Bantu word that is also spoken in the local Rufumbira dialect and means: living and developing community and belonging.
Literally translated:
>I am because we are!<

Parent workshops on parenting issues will be offered at the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre<. This type of parenting is a new concept locally, which provides a new understanding of children. A parenting method is made understandable, which, for example, rejects punishment and works with encouragement and consequence instead.
 
This has been so well received in the trial phase, which has been running since 2015, that these parent workshops will be an integral part of the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre<.

This school also aims to inspire teachers from other schools so that they can transfer this pedagogical attitude of equality to their schools.

This project is supported, managed and developed by our >friends< Pontius Mayunga and Marliese Arns.

Pontius Mayunga - Administrative Manager of St. Francis Hospital Mutolere/Kisoro
Marliese Arns - Consulting & Coaching, has been developing sustainable projects in Mutolere/Kisoro for 20 years


For us at >Friends for Friends<, the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre< is currently the most important funding project, as it has the potential to become a pioneering educational model for the future, even at a national level.

This school will not have more than 50 children in a class, the average size is 70 to 120 children. This limitation alone shows that this school is primarily intended to be a place for children to develop and realize their potential.

The girls and boys will be given a variety of opportunities beyond the prescribed curriculum of the state of Uganda that are appropriate to their age and promote their individual interests and talents.

This includes, above all, practical instructions for coping with life, e.g. gardening, craft and sewing work, learning about alternative energies or cooking without wood, etc.

"Ubuntu“ is a Bantu word that is also spoken in the local Rufumbira dialect and means: living and developing community and belonging.
Literally translated:
>I am because we are!<

Parent workshops on parenting issues will be offered at the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre<. This type of parenting is a new concept locally, which provides a new understanding of children. A parenting method is made understandable, which, for example, rejects punishment and works with encouragement and consequence instead.

This has been so well received in the trial phase, which has been running since 2015, that these parent workshops will be an integral part of the >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre<.

This school also aims to inspire teachers from other schools so that they can transfer this pedagogical attitude based on equality to their schools.

This project is supported, managed and developed by our >friends< Pontius Mayunga and Marliese Arns.

Pontius Mayunga - Administrative Manager of St. Francis Hospital Mutolere/Kisoro
Marliese Arns - Consulting & Coaching, has been developing sustainable projects in Mutolere/Kisoro for 20 years

"We are so happy about our 
new school uniform."


"We are so happy about our new school uniform."


Project
'AGRICULTURE'

The >Ubuntu Children's Literacy Centre< has its own 'Agriculture' project, which includes the following processes:

  1. The children learn the basics of agriculture.

  2. Of course, vegetables and fruits are part of the diet of the children at the school.

  3. The knowledge will be passed on to the parents. This process will also be supported with appropriate coaching, ie our agriculture expert will go to the villages to support the people there.

  4. Other schools can benefit from this knowledge.

  5. Ultimately, the community in the region should benefit and the nutritional situation should be improved.



We would like to take this opportunity to George Wilms remember, a co-founder of the Ubuntu Centre. He passed away unexpectedly on December 12, 2021.
We miss him as a friend, especially with his strategic and visionary contribution and his compassionate heart in building the school center.


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