Uphill Junior School is located in the village of Iruhuura, in the crater lake hills 35km south of the town of Fort Portal in western Uganda and 5km off the Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road. The remote location is one of the challenges facing both the school and The Uphill Trust. The route to the school from Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, involves […]
The first in our series of posts about some of the children being supported in school by the Pupil Support Fund: We first met M when she was 10 years old in October 2014. Her father had died of HIV AIDS and her mother was sick with the same disease. She and her two siblings […]
How it Began’ – the backstory for The Uphill Trust – was written by Uphill Trust Chairman Max for the Dollar Academy school magazine, Fortunas, in 2014: “Well in that case… “You must come with me into the station where we can deal with this…” Thus was I arrested, in a town in far west […]
