School voices

Joint our school choir with voices that never weaver, never tire but keep nature's melody of the young.

 

God is all Beauty to Love

How gorgeous nature reveals God's beauty. Just see a bit of it at St. Michael Church. Indeed nature is our first source of faith in God. What a Wisdom that fashioned all known and unknown beauty! All colors are an assent of beauty. Please scroll down to go through. The list is endless yours being on top. You're God's image and all colors belong to Him.

Social moments brighten kids

 

Man is a social being. Its when kids develop fully in their social talents that they become truly equipped with skills to cope up with the challenges of today's life demands and stress. Its a responsibility of everyone to provide this basic need to our kids. Watch how kids interact and spend their leisure time at Rubanda Solidarity school in Kabale.

Winter Snow Starts @ St Michael - Sandy

Hi, winter just started today at St. Michael-Sandy. Its awesome to see green trees turn into white trees, snow dropping on ones head as you walk under, grass snow veiled all and house tops losing their original mix of colors to white. Any way it's good for seeing and gardens.

Second KG Graduation 2012

Congratulations to all our graduands!

Please, join the parents and Rubanda Solidarity Nursery/Primary School administration to congratulate the 28 kids who successfully made it to grade/class one this year. They are cute. These children follow their 21old friends who made it last year 2011. We are very proud of them as they make our service real and the future bright. Please enjoy some of the snaps below taken during their graduation ceremony on December 2nd 2012.

From right Fr. Charles Lwanga, district inspector of schools, Sr. Beatrice and Mr. Innocent the head teacher hand certificates to the graduands 12.02.2012

Sr. Stellamaris and Teachers Angela look on as children pause for their group photo after graduation. Our school objective is to provide equal education opportunities for both boy and girl child. For the first time we have  equal gender numbers of 14/14 children in a class for both boys and girls.



 The guest of honor, Kabale district chief inspector of schools 2nd right, Rector St. Adrian's seminary and school chaplain Fr. Bonifance Katatika grace the graduation and admire children's' plays. 



Kids line up for lunch to join their graduands to celebrate



Parents look on as kids push through dust during sunny seasons and mud during rains with limited safe drinking and washing water.

Welcome to Rubanda-Uganda

Hello Paul and Winie Benvenuti, welcome to Rubanda!

We can't wait seeing you with us next months. Our kids have just left for home to enjoy their Christmas holidays and will be back to school early February next year when you have already arrived in Uganda. They are very eager to meet you  and are preparing to host you at their school facility.

Fr. Dominic's family, the organization and the school  staff are  also anxiously looking forward to welcoming you all to make sure you feel comfortable and become part of the family. Your visit adds great joy to us.
We wish you a happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2013 and above all, a safe journey. We have been told by father Dominic that his services there are spread out to three communities of St. Michael, St. John and St Aloysius. Please extend our greetings, love and prayers. to all of them.

Webare kwiija (Welcome)!

21 SIT FOR THEIR UPLE EXAMS

First CANDIDATES (21) who sat for their UPLE between 5-6th November 2012

The year 2012 will never be forgotten in Rubanda community, Rubanda Sucounty, Kabale district and Uganda. Its the year when Rubanda Sollidarity Nursery/Primary school has got its first primary candidates since 2005 when the school started.

Candidates before leaving the school November 7th 2012

The 21 candidates, 11 were girls and 10 were boys. Some of these students were among the first 90 pupils who assisted as a  study class to find out why school dropout was increasingly growing in government.  This was based on a hypothesis that lack of enough food at the household and lack of meals at government schools in Rubanda community was the major cause came up successful. The study found out that majority of the children in the community didn't want to go to school  because of fear that the little food at or prepared in their absence would be consumed by their younger siblings while at school. This made them to always find excuses to miss school.
With this discovery new life began for the children in Rubanda. The first private nursery and primary school were opened in 2004 to offer both day and boarding school opportunities. It was also to offer these same opportunities to both boy and girl children. With this school, life will never been the same again for children in Rubanda.

1st Candidates take a farewell photo 7th Nov. 2012

Today as you move in the village, you can hear children cry out to their parents to that they want to go to the boarding school while the day scholars are asking to be boarders or jump out of their beds so early every morning to rash to the school just not to find school breakfast over. However, their mind and attitudes are changing. They now love to read, invent and are getting more and more eager and curious to work hard and change life. They all speak of their big and wonderful future dreams. On the other hand, its amazing to see girls can confidently compete with boys. Something that was never encouraged by tradition and culture. They now do it without shame, fear or embarrassment. They are learning to be equal.

 The journey to build this confidence has not been so easy. Though creating a sense of equal opportunities has been our major focus our main obstacle and resistance has been the culture, social and economic poverty. These are the major barriers to rural development However, our success has been great by creating a big difference in our gender sensitive education policies. For example in 2005 only 20% of our students were  girls compared to 80% of boys. Today things have changed with 45% boys and 55% girls present in our school capacity of 288 students.

Our great appreciation goes to each and every one who has contributed to this great adventure and opportunity for our children: parents and children, community volunteers, donors and administration