Category: communication

Ugandan meals and water melons

Good to hear about our friends at Liss who have been studying about our Ugandan meals and how we prepare.
Talking about water melons, this was a discussion by Primary Six class today in the morning. Water melons, tomatoes and onions are the main crops we are planting this season in our Kafuro gardens.
Water melons are very sweet and are thirst- curing crops.
Planting a water melon, we buy seedlings from the seed store ( packed seeds grow better than those we get from fruits and dry to be planted). We make a 2 feet by two feet ditch, we plant in four seeds of water melon when it’s our wet season like how it is becoming now.  It takes four to seven days to germinate, then we care about directing them to different directions as the spacing in about one metre from one ditch to another, then spraying starts as they are very much attacked by pests.
At around two months and fifteen days (75 days) our best water melons are ready for harvesting and fresh to eat.

We are reminded to eat fruits after washing them clean

Talking about Muchomo, its so nice when made by an expert. We read about our teacher’s wife and family on making best muchomos in the region. They are based at New Life Safaris.

Wishing you all the best, keep us informed about the food you make.

written by Asasira Posiano

Connecting conservation communities together, in conserving for generations

Great thanks to all of you who read this blog.

Blessings to every one who made it possible for the CONSERVATION CUP to have happened.

From the people present and mostly the children, the feed back has been great and can wait for the next program when I announce.

Allow me send recognition to the following:

The admin at Queen Elizabeth parks both in Uganda and UK,

CM sports, Ash and I Nick, plus the team, we really say thanks for making things happen.

The organising Ugandan team great job well done, it’s always tricky having results recorded right but for this time am very happy that the main mistakes have been ironed out.
( So the challanges coming up are only new with hope that the review puts them out as long as we all keep positive)
UK schools that have always supported their fellow counterparts in Uganda.

The participating Schools ( Kataara, Kafuro, Katunguru Kasese, Katunguru Rubirizi, St.Johns, Kichwamba Good Hope)
Special thanks to Bira Olivia for all the work greatly done, Ronald, no words to express your help always.

Fellow teachers and coaches well done for you have taken conservation through sports to another level.

The community, we really value all your work.
Everyone who helped us to have things move the cooks, the driver and those who helped us have the car to transport the pupils for all the tournament.

For anything can’t be 100% perfect, we are considerate on the injury that happened to one of our participants and we thank the school for it has been cooperative about what happened.
( Review does the sorting)

The distribution of New balls both Rugby and Football has brought more schools around want to attend to the tournament.
Meaning the tournaments we have held so far have caused a great impact on the schools around and we have had some schools having more than the invited ones.

Meaning the conservation messages have gone very far beyond the targeted area.

Hands crossed this continues for generations.

Thanks every one and may God continue blessing you.

CLEAN WATER PROJECT – KAFURO

Clean water project for Kafuro school
Our special greetings to the children at Liss Junior School.
We have always felt proud to speak to you on this blog and receiving your letters is always amazing and strengthens our feeling for you love and care.
Thanks very much always for your kindness and generosity always to have our projects supported.
Our challenge is water. We have always fetched water from lake Kyamwiga, due to limited resources, most children have always drunk the said contaminated lake water directly.
Lake water contain lots of impurities which include fish remains, human remains and wastes and other lots.
This water was sometime back tested for filtration by Life Abundant Africa in 2016. ( Life Abundant Africa is a charity foundation giving aid to children that was founded by Yowasi Byaruhanga and Claire Green helping children to achieve education)
This project considered water filtration for communities as our piped water was not reliable but the water company has at least improved the water now.
This piped water is not very pure for drinking but it is very far far better that lake kyamwiga water which contains lots of impurities tap water here is sometimes treated 74 % making it far safer for use and when boiled it will not change the color like what Kyamwiga lake water would do, this same water have caused lots of water bone diseases and more to that it has claimed lots of lives of people in the community as even crocodiles are in the water and other aquatic lives.
In this regard, Clean water project for Kafuro is here to solve the challenge in our school as for the first time in history, Kafuro Primary School will have piped water.
This will reduce the rate at which Kyamwiga lake water is being drunk and this automatically reduces the water bone diseases, deaths by children going to fetch water and even deaths by animal and snake attacks on the community population.
Having piped water in Kafuro Primary school will help us to save more study time, this is because all the water used in school is fetched by pupils. This ranges from water to reduce dust in classes as they are not cemented to water used for cooking for staff.
Having realized the challenge as one of the causes of poverty, school drop outs and even late coming to school and other discontentment of both children and all people in the community.
Having observed and understood the challenge, Yowasi spoke to the community leaders and advised them to keep the community encouraged to boil the water they tend to use and filter as much as they can.
In setting a permanent solution, Liss junior school was contacted through Adam and the Head teacher ( great leader)
All the community of Kafuro was very much excited to hear about Liss Junior school Accepting to help to solve this challenge.
immediately a meeting with school committees was held to identify who does what, authorities from National water and Sew erage cooperation were invited. They did specify the bills of quantities basing on the distance. This was reduced as the guardians and community leaders suggested to dig the trenches of pipe and then lay the pipes and again cover the pipes.
An idea was raised to put a sign post showing “CLEAN WATER PROJECT DONATED BY LISS JUNIOR SCHOOL” Or any other right suggestion by the children of Liss Junior school as this is a generous project to their friend in Kafuro Primary School.
The national water and sewerage cooperation offer to the school was geared by the invitation to the meeting that they realized the need for water by Kafuro Primary school and they did mention that it is short to consider.
They mention that it expires in Mid May 2018.
We thank you especially the children at Liss Junior School, great special thanks to the headteacher for the super quality leadership and generosity to Kafuro Primary School, all the staff for your time and generosity and time, Adam we can not thank you enough for your super links,
The parents at Liss Junior School we value you loads and every one reading this blog and can specifically appreciate that water in life, feel very free to join the cause to fundraise money through Liss and contact Adam Stanley for more details on helping.
Water is life. Thanks for caring about our lives and health.

Africell letters from Kafuro

Dear Mr. Dalloul,

Thanks for all your great work in this best internet providing company.

I’m a Ugandan teacher based at Kafuro Primary School in Western Uganda just bordering Queen Elizabeth National.

Kafuro Primary School’s children have written their letters requesting you to solve the problem where by due to a poor network.

The community and the schools neighboring the areas of Kafuro have always wanted to use the internet for learning and sharing their culture plus all conservation ideas with Liss Junior School.

It’s a shame that in Kafuro area and the neighboring schools have not accessed your internet services. I’m moved also to urgently inform you that you have already market for your products as most schools need internet for their learning take an example of Kafuro primary school linked to Liss Junior School who have always provided money to purchase data for their blog sharing. In addition, Queen Elizabeth National Park receives a number of visitors who normally require internet for their communication and direction on Google Maps.

I am also the Proprietor New Life Junior School which we are shaping to use internet for their learning using different technology.

With all the above, I clearly understand that you are the best Chief Executive Officer who came to heights through education and most importantly I know you are very keen to expand your business and make more profits.

The solution to all the above is to build a Communication Mast or set a satellite to feed Kafuro community with internet on your network.

Thanks very much for your consideration.

Yours in service

Yowasi Byaruhanga

Projects Coordinator

Kafuro Primary School.

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Welcome from the Christmas holiday

Dear our friends at Liss Junior school, we are very happy to receive questions on the assembly from you.
We are happy you have welcomed as back from our long holiday.
A lot of things have happened during our holiday but main thing was celebrating Christmas as most of us in Kafuro village are Christians .
Harvesting and preparing for our return to school occupied most of the time in the last two weeks.
Allow us answer the questions you asked us

What time do children in P6 & P7 normally go to bed in the evening?
And. Primary six and seven are the topmost classes at Kafuro school, we do a lot of work as we do not have assistants at-home. So we revise our books and go to bed between 9:20 PM and 10:20 PM.

Is it exciting having dangerous animals near your school grounds? Do you get scared if a lion is close?
Oooh yes says Edgar, some times lions roar in the park and me and brothers at night feel scared but we still know that they cannot enter into our houses.
It was seen in a rainy season last year Hippos from Lake Kyamwiga were grazing in our coffee plantations.

Describe what your house looks like for someone who has never seen it?
Patience Katusiime , our house is made of mud and dub thatched by local grass ( spear grass) am a sister of Robert Gumisiriza a student at Kichwamba High School, Robert is our second born Our first born, Fred stopped in Primary seven but Robert was lucky to be helped by Life Abundant Africa.

Who is responsible for fetching water when you are at school?
We fetch water from Kafuro river the small river that crosses our village and goes to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
For our school and neighbouring communities fetch water from Lake Kyamwiga.
In Kafuro, fetching water and cooking is a duty of a girl child and women; a few boys fetch water and rarely cook.
This is done every morning and evening after school.

How do Kafuro children spend their spare time if they get any spare time?
We play different sorts of games like Rugby at school in our spare time but have a very small pitch, over the weekend after lunch and home chores I go swimming in the lake.
We graze animals in the village for our spare time .

Do you have to buy school uniform or is it provided free of charge?
Daphine: We were lucky to have Life Abundant Africa started by Yowasi our great teacher, Life Abundant Africa has provided uniforms to us and fees.
The government announced free education by our president, but we have always paid and most children have dropped out of school due to lack of school fees and money to buy uniforms.
Children not in Life Abundant Africa pay school fees and buy uniform.

What time does school start in the morning?
Teacher Possiano:  school starts 7:30 am welcoming pupils and at 8:00 am an assembly is held after which 8:20 am classes begin.

Apart from football, what other games are popular?
In our school, Rugby is most popular to football. Other games include volleyball kingsquare games (!got from Liss JS)
Dodging games

What would you do if an elephant wandered on to the school grounds?
An elephant came in the school when we planted maize
Janet (The Community Conservation Ranger) came into our school and told us about how to treat animals in case they came in school.
We would stay in school if an elephant wondered into our school compound.

On a typical school day, what things do you learn?
Edger. We study different subjects in one day the examinable subjects are English, mathematics, science social studies and religious education.
These are studied basing on the time table mainly after 8:20 am

How long does it take to walk to school in the morning? What is the furthest distance a Kafuro pupil has to travel to school?
We come running and it takes us 20 minutes to reach school but they are some who come from the center just near the school.
The furthest is Mirarikye ( a turn off on Katerera Kyambura road) which takes 40 minute to reach school as one runs

Is it strange not having glass in your windows?
Yowasi our teacher has always told us to work hard and improve our community and the world. We clearly know that we shall work hard to have all the basics in our community Kafuro and Uganda at large.

Has a child ever been hurt by an animal at Kafuro?
Yes, Mugabe Dickson was bitten by a snake during 2015 holiday but it is not common

Do you ever get cold at Kafuro?
No only it just gets a simple cold but not like how Yowasi and Muhudi described as it is in the UK.

What jobs do you have to do at home before you go to school?
In the morning we fetch water,

How many pupils are currently at Kafuro?
The total number of children in Kafuro Primary school has reduced a bit

We are now approximately 293.

How does the poor state of some buildings affect your learning?
As in our class Primary five, we have to fetch water from the lake to pour in the class to reduce dust and even it gets muddy and we have no windows when it rains we have to squeeze our selves in one corner.

Questions from us
1. Yowasi and Muhudi told us that England is too too cold and it goes beyond freedge temperatures, what do you do to prevent your selves from dying too much coldness and ice.
2. What do you eat for lunch mainly in school ( for us at home we eat posho and beans plus meat sometimes)
3 How does your country look like is it as green as our country Uganda??
4. Do you know how to use a hoe to dig in your gardens? ( it is what we have done during the holiday)
5. Do you pay school fees like us in Uganda ?? And how much ? If yes
6. Do you have bicycles at home ??
7. Who is your president in England?
8. When you misbehave at school what does the head teacher do to you??
Thank you for reading our questions we shall here the answers from you on Monday.

Kafuro Primary School ends second term

Second term is always our favourite term with lots of activities.
This year our second term was brilliant especially in strengthening our team working with our international friends.
In the term, we were lucky to welcome the record breaker Henry Green, the first student since our relationship with Liss Junior School to step at Kafuro Primary School.
Henry Green is even the youngest “muzungu” to visit our school.
We were delighted by his skills in speaking, great talent in football and most importantly learning from him about life in UK and him also learning about fetching water the way of life in Uganda.
He had very many questions for us as we also had as many as questions for him.

Second term was also good that for the first time ever in history, Kafuro Primary School your link school appeared in the Dairy Monitor a newspaper read by more than 76% of the elite class in Uganda not forgetting major officers.
We are proud of Queen Elizabeth Twinning Project for all the organisation and making our school popular.
For the tag rugby tournment, we have made more friends by meeting several pupils from all schools that participated in Tag rugby tounment.

We are proud to be part of the Twinned Schools as we have learn more practical by baking in the older oven as we constructed our cob Oven.
In this wonderful term we received our greatest genorosity from Liss Junior school, the solar system.
Well done everyone for your support always.
Lots of things in strengthening our learning have happened and we can not mention them all here.

Receiving Adam, Heather and Henry plus Larry the leopard was awesome.

We ended our term on Thursday last week and we are on holiday till 26th Sept 2016.
Our class, Primary Seven, have done mock exams and we return to do our final examinations that take us to secondary next year.

We have been Lucky to be supported by Life Abundant Africa for our school fees and requirement a charity founded by Yowasi and Claire that we are able to stay in school.

We shall be posting over in the new term

By Wilber and Dickson

Our second week of the new academic year 2016.

Happy new term to everybody who has been on holiday.
Our holidays have been the best and were all prolonged for almost a month more. We returned in school on 22 Feb.

As usual the first week involved more tidying of the school and cleaning the compound of which work we do ourselves.
During the holiday, most of us got involved in home chores and farming whereby most of the village land was planted by different people with cotton and some were harvesting coffee.

On returning back to school, we were happy to be received by our teachers who settled us in school.
A powerful assembly was held to welcome us from the holiday. The class teacher primary seven presented the results that were given to by the headteacher to tell us about how our 2015 primary seven students had performed. He explained how Pascal Mbetabangye had performed in first grade and having the rest of the class in second grade. It was great work by all the teachers and entire staff and the community for the performance.

More in the news our teacher Muhudi who visited England last year has participated in one assembly per week (as another was held this morning) to tell us about most activities he was involved in on behalf of us all. These assemblies are organised by our teacher Mr. Byaruhanga Yowasi who organises all link activities.

We were happy to received the news that Liss JS will be making all efforts to install our solar panel on the school roof by July 2016 and Yowasi also mentioned that he will talk to the committees to see that we can have a saloon for our haircuts. We are also waiting to welcome Adam and Heather again to visit and teach us in July as we were informed by Yowasi.

We thank all those who made our teacher’s travel a success, especially our coordinator who did all the briefing of Teacher Muhudi before his travelling and organising all his travel here in Uganda. And most of our appreciation to our teacher, Mr Adam Stanley who has continued to link with us by all means through our teacher, Yowasi.

In summary,
Our holidays were occupied through harvesting cotton and coffee plus farming for the season

Also it was a season of electing leaders staring with president to the local councils which are still being held everywhere. This period we have seen more and more scaring soldiers with large white dishes (riot shields) for hitting people.
Thes soldiers even have a settlement near Kafuro on the way to the Kyambura Gorge. The police and soldiers are always in the village walking around night and during the day.

I Wilber and Dickson are now in Primary seven which is Mr. Stanley Adam class

Thanks for reading
Wilber and Dickson
Primary seven 2016

 

Muhudi teaches us to count!

Our Ugandan friend and teacher, Mr Muhudi came to teach us how to count to 20 in Runyankore-Rukiga. He showed us how to say each word and then we copied him. He also began to teach us the alphabet in Runyankore-Rukiga. We learnt the letters A-G and then the vowels.

Before this, we went in the hall and showed Mr Muhudi a song that Mrs Molly had taught us during her visit. We then showed Mr Muhudi our version of the song ‘The Hokey-Cokey’.

Webare munonga Mr Muhudi! We enjoyed you teaching us today, very much!

Click on this link to see    Mr Muhudi       teaching us!

And click on this link to see more! Mr Muhudi 2

Catch Up

Hello
Our students at Kafuro PS have been replying to letters written by their friends from Liss Junior School.
The letters were sent through when Adam and Heather (both teachers from Liss JS) visited in July

Lots of photos have been drawn to reply to the questions and deliver meaningful learning during the process. They will delivered by our teacher Muwanga Muhudi who will be travelling in early December.

In other news, my class Primary seven,will be doing their final exams in the early November.

Your prayers are impotant.
Thanks for reading.

Selecting school prefects at Kafuro

Hope all goes well with our friends in the entire world.
For all reading our blogs, feel very free OK to comment and add value and advantage for the children learning and using this blog for communication in addition to exchanging culture.
Last week started with more light as the students who had applied for different posts were pinned on the notice board for the election and to have passed through the scrutinising committee which is lead by teachers who consider the competence of the students for the specified post.
My own class Primary Seven did not participate in contesting for votes as they are considered to be busy and are soon leaving the school in early November.
For they only did the voting and advising other students who were voted leaders.

The voting took place on Wednesday having contestants talking to the voter to give out their verbal manifesto.

Very much interesting, was the time for voting, this was by lining behind the contestant.
It was a tough moment as the contestants were very much advised not to look back, for they would be surprised.
Standing behind the person each supported was a tough time to witness as some got a long queue and others had a short queue or no one behind.
The biggest posts were for the head boy and head girl as they lead all prefects in the entire school.

For the Head boy post, Julius won the contest and for the Head girl Evelyn won with very many votes.
Some of the photos are attached to show the students during the process of voting and the final prefectorial body.

Hope you have enjoyed reading about the process.