Watoto wa Lwanga, a continued project of the late Fr. Charles Lwanga, a missionary who started the first Catholic mission in Uganda, has been granted US $ 500 by International Partners in Mission (IPM).
IPM, an NGO that has been funding their feeding programs for the last six years, gave out the grant in a bid to improve the school operations, last week. The school was also visited by university students from Holy Cross in England.
The school that was established in 1991 today, according to the administrator David (identified by one name), a Ugandan Brother, survives on efforts of the well-wishers, thus individuals, organisations and in most cases the NGOs. The school is made up of pupils that are a large number as their statistics reveal are brought up by single mothers, attributing their cases to different reasons, for example, divorce, unplanned pregnancies, generally, cases of high levels of prostitution blamed on the harsh economic times today.
The support that the school receives from different well-wishers according to the administrator is what makes their pupils perform well in the national examinations, despite the fact that it does not operate formerly like other schools.
Last year their best candidate scored 336 marks out of the possible 500, a performance that is encouraging from that informal set-up according to parents.