Educational Programs
Seconday Schools
Status: Purchasing land and design phase. A spectacular 20-acre parcel (above) is being bought on Lake Victoria between Uganda's major cities - Kampala and Entebbe.
Building design donated in part by J.E. Nsubuga & Associates, one of Uganda's premier architectural firms.
In Uganda, primary schooling (grades 1-6) is provided to all residents under the government's Universal Primary Education policy. However, secondary schooling must be paid for at a cost of between $300 and $1,500 per year. With the average Ugandan living on less than $300 a year, secondary schooling out of reach for most children. In Uganda today, only 15% of Universal Primary Education graduates go on to attend secondary school.
Africa's future depends on the education of its children.
Empower African Children's secondary school is intended to serve 300 orphans and vulnerable children from Uganda and East Africa. Envisioned as a magnet school emphasizing the arts, technology, and healthcare, the school will help children find their passions, discover their voices, develop leadership skills, and gain self-confidence.
The state-of-the-art, environmentally green, physical plant is also intended as a hub for community involvement and employment. It will house sound recording and performance studios, health care and technology classrooms.
We believe this to be a scaleable model which can be replicated elsewhere throughout Africa. To accomplish these goals, Empower African Children is assembling a team of local, regional, and international partners to provide the best education, training and access to opportunities in an ever-evolving world.
It's a bold, pioneering concept. With your help, we can make a powerful investment into Africa's future.
Partner Profile
International Medical Group
Empower African Children is developing a partnership with International Medical Group (IMG) to create its health-care magnet of the school. The curriculum will include hands on instruction in palliative care, fundamentals of first aid, CPR, sanitary practices and hygiene, and courses in medical terminology and anatomy.
IMG, which operates a fully equipped hospital , countrywide clinics, rescue and evacuation services, and is introducing a new nursing school in Kampala, shares Empower African Children's goal to address the enormous need for qualified, responsible workers. The IMG website reads:
"There is need in this country as well as worldwide to prepare a new generation of thinking, dynamic, questioning professionals, nurses who are well prepared to deal with varied emerging trends in health care. Young people entering the nursing profession today continue to face a far greater range of intellectual and practical challenges than their counterparts in the last decade."
