Who We Help

HUGS is a UK registered charity which started in 1995 and has raised £300,000 to assist local leaders in rural Uganda to build their own schools and to create opportunities where they would not otherwise exist.The schools HUGS support have helped several thousand children go to primary or secondary school but the real focus of our work is;

At Kagoma, near Mubende we are working with the Kagoma Education Development Organisation and the St. Zoe’s School leadership team. St. Zoe’s with nearly 500 children and has been achieving some of the best school results in the region.

At the Good Shepherd School in Fort Portal, our partners are the Banyatereza Sisters who work in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. Here HUGS have helped to build the first and only school in the west of Uganda for children with special needs. We have 50 children attending the Good Shepherd School.

Over the years we have also been able to help schools at Makenke near Kampla, at Hoima and at Jinja

Our long term aims are to focus on the first two and work with the local teams to make these schools among the best in the country. We want to be able to provide strong vocational programmes for the children so that we cover both academic and non academic needs. At Fort Portal we hope to be able to make the school a centre of excellence and a resource for outreach to the wider Toro region. Children with learning disability are so often completely ignored in many parts of the world and Uganda is no exception.

Sport is really important to children in Africa and is a great help in developing team work skills. We are planning to provide a range of sport opportunities in both Good Shepherd and at St Zoes with the opportunity for teams to be formed and to compete with other schools in the area. Our first sports field will provide both football and netball for the children at Good Shepherd

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