Your Powerful Impact for $0.99 a Day
Your $0.99 per day ($363/year) contribution feeds, educates and houses your sponsor child while providing life in a safe and supportive community vs. despair and destitution on the streets.
Your sponsor children depend on your generosity to keep them housed, fed, and in school.
All of the money you contribute goes directly to the school for the exclusive benefit of the children. There are no paid program administrators or third parties involved.
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New Sponsors - Please Review the List of Vulnerable Children Needing Sponsors
The Good Hope School Story
The Good Hope School is a special community school and orphanage located in a poor rural district of Southwestern Uganda. It was established by a young school teacher, and our friend, Innocent Tumuheki on his family’s land around 2007, with the support of the Peace Peddlers Foundation, headed by adventurer and entrepreneur Jamie Bianchini. Innocent’s vision was to provide accessible and affordable education to the children of the district and a loving home for local orphaned children whose parents had died (generally from AIDS).
The school offers Kindergarten - 7th Grade education and is a government-licensed primary school and registered non-profit charitable organization in Uganda. They employ 10 teachers and 5 support staff, including a live-in matron and patron for the children's full-time care. There are currently 140 children enrolled, of which around half are orphaned or extremely needy and living at the school either full or part-time.
A small International Advisory Group of volunteers from the USA and Australia, who have all personally spent time at the school over the years, work together to provide mentoring support to Innocent and his team, and to help fundraise for school maintenance and upgrade projects.
Orphan Sponsorship Program
In June 2020 the International Advisory Group commenced a project with Innocent to establish a project plan, budget and governance for a sponsorship initiative to connect fully and partially orphaned children with international sponsors. The aim was to financially provide for the orphans independently from the school’s stretched operating budget.
Our main goal with the sponsorships is for each of the children to know they have a family or person out there in the world who is supporting them from afar and celebrating their accomplishments. Sponsorships give the kids and community hope. These children have been dealt a very tough hand in life and shouldn’t have to carry the additional anxiety of worrying that they’ll be turned out onto the streets or feel that they are a burden to the school or their community.
Thank you for your support!
We understand that these are trying times for many and that there’s a lot of competition among charitable causes. So, if you feel that this year will be the last year you can support your child (or if you currently support multiple children but need to reduce your contribution) then we ask that you please let us know as soon as possible so that we can try to pair your child/children up with another sponsor going forward.
Sharing a Sponsorship
Sharing a sponsorship between 2 or more people/families is also an option. If you have a friend or family member that you can share with then that'd be great, just let us know and we can loop them into the updates. Or, if you need help being paired up with another party then please let us know.
2024 Annual Report
Check out our Annual Report to learn more about the fantastic work of the Good Hope School including our Mission, Vison, Challenges and Goals for the Year ahead!
Good Governance
Our Sponsors expect good governance and that’s how we operate.
We are a registered not for profit educational institution in Uganda that operates under the guidance of a International Advisory Board and a local Board of Trustees.
To learn more about the School’s Operational and Financial Governance please use the link below to check out our Good Governance Summary.
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