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Masaka School for Special Needs

Strategic Focus: Education, Emotional and Social support
Where: Uganda

Masaka School

Masaka residential primary school was built by HOPEHIV in 2004 with African Family Support Services, a local charity. The community had identified a large number of orphans with hearing and speech impediments. Cultural perceptions about the cause of their disability were leading to widespread stigma and discrimination. There was no safe place for them to learn, and nothing tailored to their needs.

Masaka School currently serves some ninety vulnerable pupils, and in 2008, its first intake graduated. For many pupils, school is where they learn to communicate for the first time. Masaka School is educating the community about the children’s abilities and has also secured government endorsement and partial funding.

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We see hope in Dora.

Dora is 20 and runs her own small tailoring business. People bring her orders and fabric which she makes up into clothes using the sewing machine she received when she graduated from the six month HOPEHIV-funded tailoring course run by the Salvation Army. She says that the entrepreneurship training she received has helped her to plan her sales and think about pricing.

Dora is an orphan and dropped out of secondary school due to lack of fees. She ran away from her village to escape the rebels during the war in Uganda and lived in the internally displaced people’s camp in Lira with a relative for many years. Now she has resettled back in the village as the conflict has come to an end. Her dream is earn enough money to go back and complete school one day.

Find out more about HOPEHIV-funded Salvation Army projects in Uganda.

Names have been changed to protect confidentiality.