Welcome to Hoy's College, the secondary school in Uganda where I am teaching for the next two months.
It has formed a link with my school in Cornwall, Richard Lander School, and in July students from RL will be coming out to visit. It is a short walk from a small town called Bukomansimbi which in turn is 3 to 4 hours away from the capital Kampala by car.
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| The view from the boys' sleeping quarters, on the left the chicken hut, on the the right main school building and beyond the the lush Uganda countryside... |
Mama Regina is a Founder and the current Director of Hoys College...
Mama Regina is also a pastor of the local Born Again Christian Church, when she addresses the whole school, the whole school listens....
This school along with it's primary school Kidsgear is the recent creation of a Ugandan/Dutch couple and their family here in Uganda. Like most Ugandan schools it is fee-paying but as it is a boarding school it is more expensive than most.
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| Restful revision under one of the many mango trees. |
All sorts of children come here from different backrounds. Some are orphans, some have sponsors in Europe, almost all are from the immediate locality.
Achilleo Kiyemba is a warden at the school...
Class sizes (20-35) are small by Ugandan standards (some government school class can max out at 100!) and the emphasis is on producing high quality education and expanding slowly but steadily.
Where would we all be without MIST!
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