Work plan 2017

Every year we compose a work plan that guides our activities during the year. The workplan indicates what has to be done, how, when and by whom.

For here we familiarize you with the first column: what is planned for 2017?

Project manager Marcey (Mercy) Kiconco

Vision/mission: write a 1 page document about the project wherein we define ourselves.

Target group: recrute 2 or 3 more children who fit in the target group, by preference for group 2.

Operational plan:

-write a time table. The time table structures the school day.

-develop a curriculum for our target group with the help of teachers.

Phase 1: document situation analysis

Phase 2: first draft of curriculum

Step 1: define the goals of the curriculum. Define the core curriculum.

Step 2: select and organize teaching contents

Step 3: specify teaching methods and teaching materials

Phase 3: gathering information to facilitate dissimination and implementation of the curriculum in 2018. Visits to special schools in Kabale and Ntungamo Districts.

-revise individual action plans. Education goals for each child and a strategy to realise these goals are available.

-test a selection of learning contents and teaching methods/materials defined in the curriculum.

Personnel:

-2 ½ teacher, 2 half time curriculum project staff, half time project manager and 1 worker-guard are in function

-worker, teachers and manager get support

-different skills trainers help and train the team

Infrastructure:

-finishing unit 1 (last phase). Water supply: harvesting rain water in plastic tank 5000 liter and permanent tank; reservoir tank with pump on stand; eventually shallow well. Connection with National Water or Diocese gravity water sheme. Wiring plus connection to electricity net (Umeme). Water channels. Improving accessibility for wheelchair users of sanitation installation and site in general.

-finishing unit 2 (first phase): ceiling, doors and windows, wiring, plastering, flooring, glasses. Second phase: tiles kitchen and bathroom, guttering, veranda, painting.

Materials:

-equip classes and kitchen.

-didactic materials (cfr. activities on time table) including cooking materials. A very good collection of materials for teaching/learning activities is available.

-inventory. A list of the materials of the project is available. Photos of valuables are stored in the computer of the project.

-key management is real.

Finances:

-a budget 2017 is available. The budget estimates the cost of planned activities.

-accountability 2017 is available. The accountabilty registers the expenses.

-fundraising: make 2 attempts of fundraising inside Uganda.

Relations:

-an inventory of external relations is available.

-an up to date brochure is available.

-the blog is up to date.

Reports:

-termly reports are available.

-an annual report is available.

Some of these tasks are already done. E.g. the time table is available, we have written a first draft of the situation analysis (curriculum project) and defined the core curriculum, we have recruited the personnel, a great deal of finishing unit 1 and equipping the classes is done etc. But still a lot is to come. We will be at the mercy of Mercy!

Finishing unit 2 -kitchen and office

More doors and windows for unit 2. Left Innocent (worker); right Willy (welder and father from Elizabeth).

Thanks to positive fundraising outcomes in Flanders the construction program is advancing very well. We are busy finishing the first building of unit 2. This building houses the kitchen and the office. 

The boss himself is tiling the kitchen. Provisions for electricity are already there.

Justus and his team worked on making ceilings, plastering and flooring, fixing doors and windows, making provisions for water and power and tiling the kitchen. If erecting a building goes relatively fast, finishing takes more time.

Later this year we hope to finish the last details and to start to equip this building. The kitchen is already operational at least as far as cooking on charcoal stoves is concerned.

For more pictures look at the Page construction.

(Pele)

Finishing unit 1 -classes and sanitation

In February-March Justus Murangira and his team finished unit 1. They placed a plastic tank and builded a permanent tank to harvest water. At the same time water channels to drain water from unit 1 were constructed. Finally the wiring of the buildings of unit 1 was done.

Construction of a permanent tank

By doing so unit 1-classes and sanitation- is finished. We still have to connect to water and power. We're also making some adaptations at 1 toilet to secure accessability for wheelchair users.

The construction of unit 1 is finished!

Now that the buildings are finished we will concentrate on equipping these buildings.

For more pictures, go to the page Infrastructure.

By Pele

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!

New pictures of the children

I have added pictures of the children attending PROUD project on the page 'Children'. These pictures date from the early days in PROUD Village. Children did not dispose of their uniforms at the time some of the pictures were taken.

Arinda looking at herself in the window

PROUD project welcomes 9 children at PROUD Village. Group 1 is for children of primary school age and counts 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy. Group 2 are youngsters and counts 2 girls and 1 boy.
1 boy is attending Wise Parents Nursery School.

Group 1 and Ignatious showing the aprons with teacher Doreen

For more pictures open the page 'Children'.
Written by Pele

Karimunda's E.J. graduation

He was graduating on 31/03/2017 at Tourism Hotel and Training Institute in Kabale town. Many people were happy to see an old man graduating at his old age. People from the village crossed the lake to come to witness the graduation ceremony. Kiki, his daughter, was very happy also to see that her father has graduated and she gave him a gift to put on his neck with the word "congratulations"...

Kiki's father putting on a graduation gown

By Kiki

Nikandinda Joventah, teacher and curriculum agent

I'm Nikandinda Joventah from Rubanda District.

The first day in PROUD project

Joventah

I reached in the project as I was interviewed. The project was well constructed and looking smart. I was interviewed by the project manager and the director and later I was given a job as teacher and curriculum agent.

Now in the project

-The project is going on forward. Proper sanitation and hygiene is the song of the project by the teachers.
-Emphasis and promotion of quality skills among the children is moving on well by the teachers.
Well, the project is shining.
All from Niwandinda Joventah