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We launched our vision to build a nursery and primary school in Amoroto Village late in 2015, and the school was up and running by February 2016.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!

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Mercy Seat Fellowship...

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...believes we can change the future of Amoroto by educating its children and running a school with a sustainable, effective, and unique model.  

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WHAT MAKES OUR VISION UNIQUE?

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* Small classrooms where students can receive quality education.

 

We have limited the number of students to twenty-five per classroom.  In government schools in Uganda, you can find up to one hundred students in one classroom, and the students have a very difficult time learning in such a crowded environment.  We value quality over quantity and are dedicated to providing quality education and better opportunities for individual attention.

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* The school will grow with the students.

 

We want to be faithful in the little and grow gradually.  We don't want to bite off more than we can chew, so we started small and will continue to grow gradually.  In 2016, we started our school with two nursery levels, a combination class comprised of Primary One and Two students, a Primary Three classroom, a Primary Four classroom, and a "Foundational Class."  (See more info below).  In 2017, Primary Five was added to the school; then Primary Six was added in 2018; and Primary Seven will be added in 2019 to complete all primary levels.  Allowing our school to grow with the students will help us to run our school well.

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* We will promote dignity in our students.

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Many children in Uganda are not able to start school until they are twelve, thirteen, or even older.  These children are usually placed in classrooms based on their size rather than their skill.  Without the basics of early childhood education, they are completely lost in class.  However, it would be humiliating to place these older kids in nursery school classrooms.  Therefore, we started our school with what we called our "Foundational Class" for these learners.  It was a safe place where they could learn the most basic foundational skills without having to be in class with tiny children.  We wanted to convey the message that it's never too late to learn.  After the 2016 school year, the Foundational Class students were all comfortable at a Primary Three level and were able to be moved into the appropriate level for the 2017 school year.

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* Our funding will not feed into a poverty mindset.

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Unfortunately, there is a prevalent mindset in Africa that westerners are the givers and the Africans are the receivers.  This is disempowering and harmful.  Child sponsorships for school can feed into this poverty mindset.  However, it's very difficult to fund a remote village school without western support.  Therefore, we fund our school through the unique idea of teacher sponsorships.  We have several friends of the ministry who donate $35/month to help pay the staff at our school.  This covers the biggest costs of keeping the school going.  This enables us to offer low tuition costs to our students.  The parents experience the dignity of contributing towards their children's quality education without the burden of high school fees.  This way, our community members are a part of the transformation in Amoroto.  The tuition paid by students goes towards small items such as chalk, pencils, etc.

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WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?

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As the school grows, we will need more teacher sponsors and funds to expand and build additional classrooms.  We hope to begin pursuing this expansion by the end of 2018.

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From left to right: Ben, Samson, Samuel, Harriet (school cook), Rose, Janepher, Esther, Ben, John Robert

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