Boni Consili Girls Vocational Secondary School Multi-Purpose/Assembly Hall
In this remote but peaceful town of Kyabirukwa, some 45 km from Mbarara, the second largest city in Uganda, lives some 30 nuns, sisters of the congregation of Our Lady of Good Counsel. The sisters are determined to give the best education to children especially girls. The sisters have over 100 acres of land where they grow mainly staple food banana (matoki), groundnuts, potatoes and an assortment of vegetables. The community is self-sustaining. This community runs three schools: a primary school with over 400 students, a high school for girls with over 150 girls and a vocation skill center for older girls with 30 students.
The schools have developed subsistence farming with a large piggery, a huge poultry, and a huge livestock (goat and sheep). No one will visit this school without being moved by the industry of the nuns, the commitment of the students to get a quality education, and their hardwork which epitomizes the motto of the school, ‘We labor to succeed.’ Boni Consili is a visible sign that in Africa, there is hope and that there are many great Africans especially women who are working hard in small corners, outside the huge cameras, without recognition or publicity, to change the lives of ordinary folks in very significant ways.
I spent two days in the school meeting with the students and the staff, speaking with them about their vision, the challenges they face, and their hopes. We are appealing on behalf of the students and the staff for a school hall. For the reception they accorded me and my team, we stayed outside in the open fields because there was no hall. We have included below the proposal and request for funds to build a hall that could accommodate the students for social events, religious ceremonies, academic events like graduation, writing national diploma exams, school dance among others. The principal Sr Clemensia has no car, and bikes from the school to the convent and is usually transported on a bike on a bumpy, dusty road that leads from Kyabirukwa to Mbarara.
Some of the students need scholarship to continue their education. CSA wishes to have a long term partnership with this school to support the educational initiatives of the sisters for Ugandan young girls and children. Take time to read the report.
