Planning is easy, achieving is something else...

A couple of months ago, my hopes went straight down as I found out from my IT specialist at school that some of the computers we were supposed to send where faulty. I thus had to cancel the idea of sending them for the moment until we can find more suitable ones.

After this shock, I had a nice email at work from the librarian who kindly offered me some books to send to the school to put in the library. I am working with MR NKUUTU's daughter at the moment to find a shipping company to send the way abroad. This is as always the hardest search. An endless task which is proving to be very difficult. But I am not giving up. The books are currently sitting nice and ready for departure.

To raise some funds, I decided to do an African art exhibition in our library at school. This was linked with the art Dpt and it was a great success. I even organised a little raffle with which we raised £40. This is only a start in the process and although it will seem very small, it is a start. (You can see a photo of it just above.)

A lot of students came to watch the exhibition and art classes came up also to take some ideas from authentic african art as they were working on an african mask project. In another post, you can see a picture of the end result of their project. This was a successful exhibition and will happen again this year although I will try to improve it by adding more information to attract more Dpts to come and view it.

Plans for Busesa High School

Busesa high school is located on the highway too. It is located about quarter of a mile from the main trading center.

It is easily accessible. The school was started in 2007 by MR NKUUTU AYASI, with the help of his daughter. The first building is on a big piece of land with plenty of room for more development.

Mr. NKUUTU is a retired teacher who taught in the local secondary school for nearly 20 years. He has also been the local village chairman for several years. So he is well known and trusted by many parents.

Because of universal primary education, there is an increase of the number of students wanting to get secondary education. With just one other school in the sub county, which serves even students from all over other parts of the country, since there is a boarding section. There is not much chance for many kids from not well off families to get education.

There are students who have not got the best grades but that does not mean they cannot do well in secondary education. In fact most of them just need close attention from their teachers.

So the DIRECTORS OF BUSESA HIGH SCHOOL AIM TO:

- Provide a solution to overcrowding in the local secondary school. If there is another school, then parents will have a choice about where their child has education.

- To help students who are slow learners get a chance, by not being left behind if they are in small numbered classes.

- The school plans to put up a boarding section next year, that will help parents who cannot afford to pay for conventional boarding schools , cut down the distance the kids have to travel, but also not pay so much money.

- Most students are left out because their grades from primary school are not very good. The schools aims to give every one a chance. By introducing practical subjects like catering and home economics, tailoring, metal and woodwork, computer studies. The directors hope that it will give a chance to every individual, a chance in life.

Southeastern Uganda

Busesa is located in the South East of Uganda, not far from the Kenyan border.

If we look on the map, although Busesa is not marked on it, we can say that Busesa is located on the jinja busia/malaba highway in Iganga district as we have already said.

About 11 kilometers away from the main town of iganga. It is located in the sub county of Ibulanku, which is in Bugweri sub county. The sub county comprised of approximately, 30 local villages.

Busesa is what they call a trading center in Uganda, because it is located on the highway. It is a link between villages and the bigger towns like Iganga. Many people travel from their villages to come to Busesa for trading and education purposes.

For a long time, Busesa has been the main trading center of nearly the whole county. But as the country has developed, many villages have developed into trading centers and some to move on to towns.
Busesa still serves as the trading center of the sub county. It still works as the main political center of the county, because the county headquarters are located there.

The only government aided secondary school in the sub county is located in Busesa. And because it is government aided students travel from even other sub counties to come and study in the school. Though people try to work hard, with the level of literacy being lower in Iganga than other places, the poverty level is very high too. The only income is mainly through trade
and small scale farming.

Busesa High School

Welcome to Busesa High School E-blog


Busesa High School is located in a small village called Busesa in the district of Iganga in the middle east of Uganda (East Africa).

The main aim of this new school is to relieve the only other secondary school in Busesa which is currently overloaded with not enough facilities.

At the moment, the school runs from senior one to senior four. The school has over two hundred students registered at the moment for the beginning of next academic year in February.

The school is aiming to teach the whole curriculum of education as recommended by the Ugandan ministry of education. The directors of the school also recognise the need of children learning new technologies, hence the need for computers.

Busesa High school is now linked to a secondary school in United Kingdom, in the south west of England, known as St Luke's Science and Sports College (http://www.st-lukes.devon.sch.uk/) I work in this school myself and after negociating with the ICT department, our school has kindly decided to offer them 15 computers to the Ugandan school as we are in the process of updating ours.

The computers are awaiting to be transported to Uganda. I am working together with one of the directors to continue finding ways to help. I will also be going to Uganda to visit the school and see for myself how the school is doing . That will not only give me a chance to compare the Ugandan educational system to the English one but will also help me identify where they need to improve, and will be able to give them ideas.

The school is still looking for other partner schools, people and businesses who can help in anyway they can. A church in Milton Keynes is in talks to donate five sewing machines to the school. This would be of great help as well.