The 12 PCs of Christmas! IT skills are essential for today’s children and adults. Only 25% of Ugandan teachers have a basic understanding of computer use and only 10% have the skills to use computers to enhance their lesson planning and teaching. For pupils in rural schools, lack of electricity, IT equipment and functional internet […]
Providing our rural children with co-curricular skills alongside their broad range of academic teaching is one of the key missions of Uphill Junior School. For the past few years, this has extended beyond the classroom into offering the experience of hands-on vocational skills training. Summer workshops have covered a range of entrepreneurship skills In 2024, […]
Even though I’m now a retired dentist, after a career spanning 40 years it is quite difficult not to find myself thinking of teeth and oral hygiene. In 2019, before I stepped away from the chair, I was part of the Dentaid team of volunteer dental professionals on the first of my three professional visits […]
We are lucky to have really good communication with the Elius, the Uphill Junior School Director, via digital messaging services. This blog gives you a flavour of our regular chats… Team Uphill – Elius with trustees Liddy, Belinda and Max Background to this conversation Towards the end of the COVID lockdowns the Uphill staff asked […]
Walking on Water Way back in 2014, Newport Brownies – accompanied by a crowd of friends, families, and the Newport Church Sunday Club – held a sponsored walk across the Tay Bridge. They were hoping to raise enough money to buy what would be the very first rainwater harvesting tank for Uphill Junior School in […]
One of the plants that grows naturally in huge numbers in Uganda is the banana. They grow easily and in many varieties. Of course the Ugandans find a use for all of the parts of the plant. While the fruits are eaten just as they are or cooked into a whole range of dishes including […]
For a community where toys are not a regular thing for children, it was good to see a wee one cuddling a doll made from banana leaves during school playtime at Uphill. Commenting on this to one of the teachers, she said, “We can all make them.” My reply was, “Please can you show me […]
If you ever wondered whether Girlguiding was a truly worldwide organisation, here’s a tale that will convince you. Following a chance meeting with some Ugandan Guiders in Entebbe during 2022, Liddy, a longtime Brownie leader in Scotland, went on to make further Guiding connections in Uganda. The result of these links is the formation of […]
A New Kindergarten for Uphill This is the story of ten years in the life of a rural Ugandan school building. These days we in the west are all being encouraged to reuse or recycle to cut back on waste, and help reduce climate change. In Uganda, our experience is that before anything is thrown […]
