Orphans' School Construction Project

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MUTO Orphans' School Construction Project

MUTO literary means “YOUNG ONE”.  MUTO Initiative is an Orphan - based model program aimed at providing educational assistance to orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Uganda. The management is looking forward to the fund for building a community Orphans’ school. It is our hope that you will be close partners with us as well as we soldier on with this noble cause.

The MUTO Orphans’ School is a model educational project developed by The CIDA Orphans’ Support Fund, which is the department operating under our Organization that is responsible for designing and implementing programs and projects geared towards supporting the orphans.

Uganda has high rates of HIV and AIDS infections and/or deaths and many other fatalities. Since 2020, CIDA Uganda has provided educational, health and sustainable livelihoods support to orphans and their guardian families, as well as funding water and sanitation infrastructure projects in local primary and secondary schools.

CIDA Uganda adopts an empowerment approach encouraging community ownership and autonomy by promoting and encouraging community action and economic regeneration. CIDA- Uganda strives to improve access to, and the quality of primary, secondary, vocational & tertiary education in Uganda, with the objective of increasing   attendance, retention and performance of orphans and vulnerable children.

After close to five years of promoting orphans’ education within Uganda, the number of orphans droping out of school in Uganda remains high. It is widely recognized that an educated girl or boy will marry later, she or he will have less children and his/her children are likely to obtain a better future in life. While this is true, helping a child  to stay in school and reach their highest academic potential is a big challenge and even greater in the case of orphans and other vulnerable children.

After improving the numbers of orphaned children completing pre-primary then primary school and transiting into secondary school through our Alternative Family Based care model, we still had the problem of higher incidences of        pregnancies and drop outs among those who then joined day schools. The absence of parental care, the long distances to school, the lack of basic needs, the challenges of adolescence and the lure of malicious men who take advantage of the situation of the orphans’ vulnerability becomes too tough for these children. This        caused us to prioritize boarding schools for our orphans thus leading us to greater success. It is from this experience that we wish to build the orphans’ boarding school in order to take orphans’ education a notch higher.

This time not just for the orphans but for the less privileged children within  communities around Uganda

We will also develop state of the art sports facilities for utilization by the entire region. In the past, we have involved our beneficiaries and their communities in various playing fields from primary schools in the area.

CIDA Uganda has established an independent charitable trust, MOS - trustees, which will oversee the building of “The MUTO Orphans’ School in the area of Luweero District, Central Uganda. The proposed orphans’ school is intended to offer quality education to over 4,000 orphans when fully functional. Classes will be broken down into four streams of 30-35 students running from Pre-primary to primary seven under the Ugandan education system. The land acquired will allow scope for further expansion to over 6,000 orphans.            

Aims, Objectives & Values of the School

OUR AIMS

• • To be a model Orphan school and make good quality education more accessible to orphans in rural and urban deprived areas of Uganda and to equip these children with a broad range of skills for the 21st   century.
• • To motivate rural and urban disadvantaged orphans to consistently give their best, to grow in strength, health and happiness and, above all, into mature young women of sound character, able to face the world with confidence, and the opportunity to thrive, achieve in a range of careers and contribute towards wider society.

OUR OBJECTIVES

• • To construct, equip and manage a Model orphans’ School and home in Uganda with the capacity to provide good quality education and enrichment extra curricula activities to over 4,000 orphans.
• • To nurture and produce curious and happy learners who are flexible in thinking, independent in learning, effective in communication, research oriented and innovative.
• • To ensure that the behavior of students is outstanding and that students show consistently excellent attitudes to learning with a strong desire to do outstandingly well.
• • To actively promote the educational status of the community in which high self- esteem is developed by recognizing success, embracing change, being creative and adopting new technology.
• • To create a safe inclusive learning environment, give learning preference to just acquisition of knowledge by ensuring interactive class sessions, develop the desire and aptitude of inquiry, experiment and hypothesis and to take calculated risks.

OUR VALUES:

• • We believe that optimism can be taught and positive thinking is a virtue.
• • We recognize and value the role of parents and guardians in assisting in the achievement of these aims:

The MUTO orphans’ School gives value to:

• Discipline and hard work
• Integrity
• Team Spirit
• Transparency and Accountability
• Volunteerism and social responsibility
• Diversity
• Leadership
• Democracy
• Loyalty to The MUTO Family Spirit

The MUTO orphans’ School shall embody integrity, hard work and social responsibility, giving students a powerful platform for influencing change and constructing prosperity in Uganda and beyond.

Strengths and core competences

The main strengths of the school will come from the competent and experienced staff, the supervision and observation of the orphans, the environment and facilities, and the values and social skills imparted to the children. Overall, the school will center itself on achieving academic excellence, whilst also developing the orphans with a set of values and a strict adherence to the principles of the school.

Ensuring the class numbers are limited will enable better one-to-one education and attention to the pupils on an individual basis. This will also allow individual needs to be recognized and addressed. Class sizes are restricted to a maximum of 35.

The design of the school will incorporate current environmentally-friendly technology, including the use of solar energy and bio-gas.

Strategies to mitigate potential risks have been considered and adopted. For instance, the insurance of teacher retention has been addressed through adequate salaries and comfortable accommodation

Service description

The school is intended to provide:

1.  school education
2. An Orphanage Home
3. Accommodation to the students
4. Food and water
5. Extra-curricular activities

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