Beauty and poverty, opportunities and challenges, dreams and needs…Uganda. It is for her children that we work to build a school…and thus to Build Hope in Kids.

On April 26th BHIK-U celebrated our 8th anniversary. Building Hope in Kids - Uganda was incorporated as a nonprofit organization 4/26/2017. We didn’t imagine at that time how far our mission and Father’s dream would come in 8 years! We began raising money “brick by brick” with donations (even birthday money from grade school students!), then expanded fundraising to selling T-shirts, pounds of coffee, haircuts, and tickets to ballgames. Construction began in 2018. Our first school year began in February, 2019 with the classroom building also providing living quarters for boarding students on the second floor. Meals, Masses and assemblies were held in the dining/all-purpose hall for the 318 students. Our campus has expanded from 4.5 to approximately 7 acres, with 923 students and a staff of over 60 making full use of 12 buildings, 4 sports fields, and two water wells. Our students have achieved excellent scores in the annual national exams, and 253 of them are being sponsored (including secondary schools). Their own dreams are amazing: civil engineer, surgeon, cardiologist, orphanage founders, priest, religious Brother… because of the hope they’ve been given by so many supporters of BHIK-U. 

Greetings from Uganda and from our school St. Patrick.

I would like to start my column by thanking our sponsors who sent letters along with me last September to their students. They were very thrilled to receive them and it gave a personal connection.

Secondly I thank you for the Christmas gifts you sent to the children. They were extremely happy together with their parents. Some of the children had outgrown their uniforms and some uniforms were old and so they used the money to buy new uniforms.

The 2025 school year started well on February 1 for the boarding students and on February 3, day scholars also reported for beginning of classes. We now have a total enrollment of 923 students. These include additional 15 new sponsored children that we added this year on our sponsorship program. Thank you again to our sponsors. We have six new teachers that were recruited to join the faculty. Everyone is excited about the new year and there was great jubilation with the excellent PLE results for our 2024, P7 graduates. A good number of our students have joined top notch secondary schools.

We had planned to start sewing classes this school year but due to scheduling conflicts these will start in the Second term.

We haven’t used the latest new parcel of land that we purchased because we haven’t had rain for a long time. It’s still too dry now to do any agriculture there.

We continue to thank all of you our esteemed community of supporters. You have touched and changed the lives of these children. We hold you so dearly and always keep you in our prayers.

February brings the beginning of the 2025 school year in Uganda. Boarding students officially reported to the school on Saturday, February 1st - - although P7 students came several days earlier. While the students were on their long break, the maintenance crew did some sprucing up and built a covered area for the ping pong table donated by a U.S. supporter. (Let the games begin!)

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