Staff and students alike recently celebrated the success of last year’s cohort of vocational training students at the college’s first graduation day. Previous attempts to host a graduation day had been thwarted by Covid, so the celebrations this year were extra special.Students from Nkuru Vocational college graduated with qualifications in…
On some previous visits with the Acholi community in the past year, I (Helen) have sat with Harriet, Miriam and some of the other women as they have shared their hopes and dreams for setting up small businesses to earn a bit of income in a way that doesn’t include…
The children from Acholi Quarters that we give support to through the Hopeful Haven programme and through tuition fees support were recently invited to take part in a Christmas card competition. The aim was for them to design a card that can then be printed up and used to send…
written by John Njendahayo One of the projects that runs from the Nkuru college campus in rural Mityana is the Uwero water project which pipes clean water to families around the community. The college has ownership of a piece of land that has a natural spring in it. This spring…
Members of the Lubanga Ber group in Acholi Quarters recently had a very informative training session on how to make briquettes as a form of lower carbon, longer-burning fuel. Most of the group currently rely on charcoal as their fuel source for cooking, and the cost has gone up significantly…
When Joyce’s baby twin daughters died within 2 weeks of each early in 2023, Joyce felt as though her world had caved in. She still had her sons, who were then age 4 and 6, but the trauma of losing the girls was, not surprisingly, huge. After a time, she…
Amaro Brenda (in the white) and Lamunu Rhona (in the black) are both from Acholi Quarters. They are both 20 years old, and both completed their secondary education in December 2022. Since then neither of them have been able to find any employment, and were feeling very despairing of the…
