PROUD Village: Parents

In 2005 we made an investigation in Rwanda and found that only 1 out of 4 disabled children lived with both natural parents. We don't know if this is also the case in Uganda but in the project we see a similar situation. Many times the grand parents replace the parents. You can start to know them on this page.

Family pictures

Praise (second from left) and family in Kabale hospital. Left the grand mother.

Pretty and family at home. Right the grandfather.

Parents or grand parents

The mother of Sarah sells shoes at Kabale market

The mother of Arinda

The father of Elizabeth is a welder

Ignatious with his grand mother

Pritty and grand mother

Arinda Mercy with her mother (school year 2018)

Who picks the children from school?

Children are taken from school by relatives or boda boda man. Here are some pictures.

His grand mother helps Ignatious

Ignatious is picked by his grand mother. Grand mother is helping him to put his clothes well.

Pritty resembles her grand mother

Pritty is also picked by her grand mother. Pritty resembles her grand mother. They have to climb a very steep hill to go home.

So the grand mothers go by foot with their grand children.

Praise is proud to travel by bike

Prize makes use of a transport system that is common in Kabale: a bike taxi. She is proud when she climbs the bike!

The boda boda man and the mother of Arinda came to pick Arinda

Arinda is picked by her father, who comes with his moto when he is not to busy with his timber bussiness. If not the parents hire a boda boda.

Elizabeth is happy to sit on the moto of her father Willy

Elizabeth likes to sit at the moto of her father. Willy is a welder. He produced metal doors and windows for PROUD Village.

The younger sister of Sarah (left) comes to pick Sarah (right) together with her schoolmates from Child Africa

The mother of Sarah sells shoes at Kabale market. So, it is the younger sister of Sarah who comes to pick Sarah at PROUD Village. Usually she is accompanied by her schoolmates from Child Africa. They are a colorfull group!

End of second term reports (August 2017)

Ignatious and his grandmother

The second term ended on 18/09/2017. The manager welcomed the parents for having come to receive the reports with their children. Each child was happy to receive the report with the parents. Bridget came to receive the report alone because she is able to take herself to PROUD Village.

Bridget

Written by Kiki

End of third term (school year 2017)

Arinda and her mother

Proud Uganda ended third term on 08/12/2017. All the children from group 1 and group 2 received their reports. Parents also came with their children to pick the reports. All children were happy to receive their reports.

Praise and her elder sister Daphine

Parents meeting held on 10th of February (2017)

(Grand) parents of group 1 accompanied by Kiconco Marcey, project leader (right) and teacher Patience (left)

The meeting started with an opening prayer led by Ngabirano Patience. Kiconco Marcey opened the meeting by thanking parents and teachers for having attended the meeting. She also requested teachers to introduce themselves before the parents. She encouraged parents to always come in time whenever there is a meeting.

We explained the time table to parents and discussed with them the activities which we want to teach our children. In the meeting Director explained the subjects and programs that is included in the time table for example general education, self-care, house hold activities and economic activities.

We discussed about the arrival time and departure time for the children and we agreed that arrival time is between 7:30 am and 8:30 am while departure time is between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm.

We also discussed about the new uniforms and Marcey showed the sample of uniforms to parents and all parents were happy and thanked Director by clapping the hands for him.

In the meeting Director and Marcey promised parents for home visits of each child to look at the activities a child does at home and see the activities their young brothers and sisters do at home.

By Kiki

Parents and relatives visit PROUD Village

The parents and relatives of the children visited them on 12/11/2017. The director of the project Mr. Leon Peeters was also present at the visitation day.

The director welcomed the parents and relatives for having come to visit the project of their children and introduced the team of PROUD UG to the parents. The director explained to the parents about the activities their children are doing while at the PROUD Village. He explained to them using the pictures of the activities.

The parents were happy to see the activities that their children perform while at the PROUD project and the director encouraged them to do the same activities at their homes. The parents clapped the hands for the director as the way of thanking him for the skills their children have acquired.

The parents also moved around at the project to look at the gardens and the kitchen of the PROUD Village.

By Kiki

Mission 10: external relations

A part from working at the curriculum and the infrastructure, we will also give special attention to our relationship with parents and authorities.

We plan to visit all parents at home and to discuss with them curriculum issues. The home visits will inform us about which skills we need to teach to the children. E.g. does the child brush or not? Does he/she use a tooth brush or small sticks? Is the family eating at a table or holding the plate in the hand? Do they use spoons or do they always eat with their hands?

Parents meeting May 2018: parents, personnel and authorities

We want to be registered by Southern Division and we are preparing a file for them. The Community Development Officer, Kiconco Peace, want to be informed about the children and parents involved in the project, recruitment procedures, parents meetings, the personnel and their qualifications, the actual work plan and future planning and the activity report. As these documents are readily available it does not give us much work to inform her.

Written by Pele

Home visits